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London's Admirality Arch Could Go From Office Space to £5,000/Night Hotel

Admirality Arch, a regal-looking office structure located on London's Mall (and we don't mean the Galleria-kind) may soon go from cubical home to prime hotel property if a wealthy developer has his/her way. According to a story in yesterday's Daily Mail, the building, which offers prime views of Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square, has gone on sale for a cool £75 million.

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Listen, The Space Hotel is Not Going to Open in 2012

We linked to the news that the very first Space Hotel would open in 2012 in our hotel news briefs on Monday. That's because we didn't think something so far-fetched really merited an entire post but today we thought we'd put our thoughts out there on the Galactic Suite Space Resort.

For starters, it's not going to open in 2012. Does anyone not remember Lance Bass' dream to go to outer space? Look how well that turned out. And most ambitious hotel plans never make their opening date so we're gonna go ahead and say that outer space probably has some unique factors that could contribute to a delay.

Second, let's talk about price. Sure, Russian billionaires may have the money to spend $4.4 million on three nights in space but what happens when this space hotel runs out of Russian billionaires? (Not so coincidentally a Russian billionaire is financing this project.)

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