The Hotelicopter from Alvin Farley on Vimeo.

A Hoax Almost As Big As The Hotelicopter, The flying five-star hotel makes its inaugural flight June 26. Thing is, the story has a few holes big enough to fly the Hotelicopter through. Hotelicopter = Hotel + Helicopter. The Hotelicopter was Architecture designed with the sophisticated, affluent traveler in mind. Hotelicopter: it’s like a cruise, but through the airplane, flying hotel, Hotelicopter lodging and luxury design Hotelicopter hotel, motel plane and travel Hotelicopter hotel. 18 room Hotelicopter hotel would be the largest helicopter ever built (if it wasn’t a joke), by Kevin Hall. Though it reminds us of the ill-fated enormously expensive V-22 Osprey, we’ll give the Hotelicopter a fair shake and file it under “Believe It When We See It.”

So what can you expect? Well, all of the usual from a five-star hotel, even if it is a flying one: Soundproofed rooms, queen-sized bed, mini-bar, wireless Internet service — even room service available an hour after takeoff. There’s also a full massage parlor and salon, a ping pong table and — how could it not have one? — a tea lounge. Sophisticated, indeed. Set to make its maiden voyage this summer house, the Hotelicopter is an 18-room flying hotel “designed,” the website states, “with the sophisticated, affluent traveler in mind.”

The company says the Hotelicopter is modeled after an old Soviet design:

The Hotelicopter is modeled on the Soviet-made Mil V-12, of which there were only two prototypes ever made. The Mil V-12 took its first flight in Russia in 1968 and was awarded numerous world records, which it still holds today… The Hotelicopter Company purchased one of these prototypes from the Mikhail Leontyevich Mil helicopter plant in Panki-Tomilino, Russia in 2004.

Hotelicopter via Geekologie