Are you the kind of traveler who's slightly allergic to three-room B&Bs that are impossible to find and require morning nibbling around a table full of strangers? Presenting the Forbes Traveler list of the world's biggest hotels, which for some may represent the impersonal travel experience defined, but for thousands are simply the steel-and-concrete answers to any traveler's most pressing question, 'Where to stay?'
It's no surprise that the more rooms a property has, the easier time you'll have securing a reservation. Indeed, we based our rankings on that single criterion: room count. And while budget didn't factor into it, it's also a maxim of travel that the bigger the hotel, the lower the rates: a huge inventory of rooms means better deals and upgrades can often be had for the asking.
With very few exceptions, the biggest hotels in the United States are to be found in Las Vegas. In fact, until recently, Sin City's MGM Grand, with 5,044 rooms, was the largest hotel in the world, but since 2006 that distinction has belonged to the First World Hotel in the Genting Highlands of Malaysia. Like most megahotels, the First World is about more than just a place to hang one's hat-although with 6,118 rooms, doing so should be a cinch-the sizeable premises incorporate a theme park and a half-million square feet of shopping space, too. Speaking recently to Malaysian tourism officials, Alan Teo, president of the resort group that built the First World Hotel, said, "It is a huge and challenging task to cater to such volume in a single location. We have in place 32 check-in counters with 64 terminals located in the hotel lobby, requiring a Queue Management System to manage a maximum check-in capacity of 700 rooms per hour."
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