Moon hotel: Galactic Resource Utilization Space opens applications for stay at first-ever hotel on the Moon

Cashed-up tourists looking for an out-of-this-world adventure are about to have a whole new destination to add to their bucket list.

Plans for the first ever Moon hotel have been unveiled, with the first guests expected to be welcomed for low gravity vaycays from 2032.

The brainchild of start-up Galactic Resource Utilization Space, the hotel will be inflatable and the “first-ever permanent off-Earth structure”.

But anyone wanting to stay there will have to have a substantial bank account, with an application to make a reservation setting you back between $250,000 ($AUD374,00) to $1 million ($AUD1.5m) deposit, depending on the option you select.

While the final pricing for a stay at the moon hotel has not been determined, the company behind the scheme, Galactic Resource Utilization Space, says it is likely to exceed $10million.

The hotel will be inflatable and the “first-ever permanent off-Earth structure”. Construction is expected to begin in 2029, pending approval.

Up to four guests will be able to stay at any one time. It is expected up to 12 intakes of guests will happen each year.

The rooms will be air conditioned with oxygen generation, water recycling, temperature control, emergency escape system and radiation shelter for solar storms.

GRU, a start-up led by founder and CEO Skylar Chan a 21-year-old University of California Berkely graduate, said the project had funds from investors who had also backed SpaceX and Anduril, a defence systems company.

“It won’t be your traditional hotel. That is why people are getting excited,” Mr Chan told Metro.

“Think about all these experiences you can have in the Moon Hotel.

“Moon walking. Looking out the window and seeing the Earth and the stars.”

Mr Chan has even flagged playing golf on the moon just as NASA astronaut Alan Shephard did during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

Just 12 people have ever walked on the moon, so the plans are ambitious but GRU says its founding philosophy is the conviction that “humanity’s transition to an interplanetary species is not a question of if, but when.”

“Humans cannot expand beyond Earth until we solve habitation on the Moon.

“When we solve off-world habitation, this is the ‘Promethean moment’ that will enable billions of human lives to be born on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

“Imagine the first children born on the Moon and Mars. Imagine the first languages, cultures, cities. Human civilization will change forever.”

GRU believes space tourism is the fastest “economic wedge” to gear up the lunar economy.

“By building the first hotel on the Moon, we introduce immediate, tangible value for customers on Earth, while proving the same core capabilities required for permanent surface infrastructure.”

Construction is expected to begin in 2029, pending approval.

Applications to apply for a reservation are open now.