| First World Hotel | |
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| Tower 1 & 2 and the outdoor theme park | |
| Location | Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia |
| Address | First World Hotel, 69000 Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia. |
| Rooms | 6,118 |
| Restaurants | 11 official restaurants |
| Floors | 28 |
| Website | Official Website |
First World Hotel is the fourth largest hotel in the world by rooms. It comprises Tower 1 and Tower 2, each with 28 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. It is the largest hotel in the world.
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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The First World Hotel is a standard hotel at most of its rooms. Below the hotel is a 500,000 sq ft (46,000 m2) plaza called First World Plaza, housing shopping malls, 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 an 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.
There are 10 flagship restaurants in addition to a number of other smaller restaurant outlets and fast-food chains at the First World Hotel. The 10 restaurants are: [2]
On December 18, 2006, Guinness World Records listed the First World Hotel as the world's largest hotel complex by numbers of rooms and not by constructed area.[3]