First World Hotel

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First World Hotel is the 2nd largest hotel in the world (after the MGM grand in Las Vegas). It comprises Tower 1 and Tower 2, each with 23 floors, and has a total of 6,118 rooms. It is one of the five hotels located in Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia, along with Genting Hotel, Theme Park Hotel, Highlands Hotel and Resort Hotel.

The hotel is managed by First World Hotel and Resorts Sdn. Bhd, one of two major companies operating at Genting Highlands resort (the other is Resorts World Bhd). The resort can be reached by the Genting Skyway, which is the world's fastest (and Southeast Asia's longest) cable car, which travels at 6 metres per second ^[1].

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First World Hotel, Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia.

On December 18, 2006, Guinness World Records listed the First World Hotel as the world's largest hotel ^[2].

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First World Hotel is a standard 3-star hotel at most of its rooms. Below the hotel is a 500,000 square feet plaza called First World Plaza, housing shopping arcades, food outlets, Starworld casino, The Pavilion and the Genting indoor theme park. It has a stage for weekly performances (such as magic and music shows) at the area called Time Square, surrounded by a replica of the Statue of Liberty and Oscar statue. Other facilities including Watersplash Pool (an indoor water theme park for children), Genting Sky Venture (Asia's first free fall simulator) and a cineplex.

First World Hotel main entrance forms the lush and grand tropical rainforest and a spacious Spanish courtyard at its lobby.