Who doesn't love superlatives? We're crazy for knowing what's the most expensive, tallest and most haunted of hotels, still the simple title of largest hotel goes to First World Hotel Genting inside the highlands of Malaysia. Because the star attraction of the region often known as Malaysia'a explain and Atlantic city and las vegas, First World Hotel boasts a staggering 6,118 rooms, having surpassed the MGM Grand's measly 5,690 in 2006 to have an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Reaching Malaysia's party central is undoubtedly an experience in itself, since you must take the world's longest and fastest cable car, traveling at almost 20 feet per second. That that isn't freaky enough, the lodge itself is a kaleidoscope of trippy colors which has a traditional Spanish courtyard at its center.
Without a doubt the development of First World Hotel has been influenced by Dubai's wacko ideas, including the indoor ski park which First World adapted for themselves being a Winter Wonderland with tobogganing. Visit their 28-lane bowling away, giant replicas of world landmarks, Asia's first free fall simulator, a hang-gliding rollercoaster and their massive casino before retiring in your room at the top of one of two towers looking out onto the mountains along with the mania below.
When the hotel isn't sold-out, rates start at $65 and escalate around such important events when the Mtv Asia Awards and filming of Malaysian Idol and Star Idol Malaysia. That makes us need to go just to say, "dude, I totally just got back from 'Malaysian Idol.'" Oh man, we just had the best idea ever for this place: film yet another sequel to National Lampoon's Family Vacation here. It would be like Lost in Translation on acid; hooray for culture shock!