To boldly go where no tourist has been before will set you back hundreds of thousands of pounds, but it will give you endless bragging rights down your local pub.
The first space hotel, with room for just seven guests (sleeping upright) is expected to welcome its first visitors from 2016.
Floating 350kms above the earth, the hotel will be pretty basic – no ensuites, no showers and only freeze-dried food to eat and yet it will cost £100,000 for a short break, making it the most expensive boutique hotel in the universe.
However, it will offer the best ever views.
There'll be no excursions, no smoking, no drinking and only a TV and the internet for entertainment, but the Russian company which unveiled its plans for the first space hotel this week promised it would be more comfortable than the International Space Station.
It could also represent a great sales opportunity for some savvy travel agents. The flight is likely to set holidaymakers back a further £500,000, bringing the total spend for a three-day trip to £600,000 – that's one hell of a commission for selling a mini-break.
By Linsey McNeill
