Stockholm airport home to first hotel built in airplane

At Sweden’s largest international airport an abandoned jumbo jet will open as a hotel later this month – the first hotel to be built inside an airplane anywhere.

Called the “Jumbo Hostel,” the unusual accommodation has been constructed from a Boeing 747 jetliner that has been out of use for some time. Located at the Stockholm-Arlanda airport, the new hotel features 25 rooms, each of which measure 65 square feet. The furnishings are Spartan, and include bunk beds, overhead compartments for storing belongings and flat-screen TVs for both entertainment and up-to-date flight information.

At the front of the jet-hotel, guests will find reception and a café, with toilets and showers located at the rear of the aircraft. The upper deck ‘bubble’ of the jumbo jet has been transformed into a conference room, and the cockpit has been fashioned into a honeymoon suite.

The unique hostel was designed by Swedish entrepreneur Oscar Diös, who is hopeful that the novelty and relative inexpensive rates will attract flying enthusiasts and a variety of other guests, including budget travellers.

The 747 was built in 1976, and was first in service with Singapore Airlines. After being sold to Pan Am it eventually was purchased by Transjet, a Swedish leasing company, which collapsed in 2002. For the past six years, it has been sitting idle at the Stockholm airport.

“We already have 200 bookings,” Diös said. “The inside looks very nice and we have designed it in a cool 1970s style. All the staff will wear classic airline uniforms. The plane has space for 74 guests but we are building more rooms in the engine bays beneath the wings, so that number will soon be 82.”

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