$1 Million Moon Hotel Reservations Are Live and the Future of Vacationing Just Got Weird
Somewhere between science fiction and extreme tourism, a Moon hotel just started taking reservations. It sounds unreal, but it’s happening right now.
A startup has opened applications for a luxury stay on the lunar surface with a target opening year of 2032. The experience comes with a massive price tag and a very small footnote that the hotel hasn’t been built yet.
The company behind the idea is Galactic Resource Utilization Space, better known as GRU. Their concept revolves around an inflatable habitat placed on the Moon, capable of hosting up to four guests at a time for multi day stays.
This isn’t pitched as a quick flyby. The goal is an actual vacation, complete with surface exploration, driving across the Moon, sightseeing, and even golf played in low gravity.
Leading the charge is Skyler Chan, a 21 year old Berkeley graduate who has already caught the attention of major tech and aerospace players including SpaceX and Nvidia.
While the vision is huge, the entry point is very specific. Anyone interested must first pay a $1,000 application fee just to get in the door. From there, reservation packages range anywhere from $250,000 to a staggering $1 million.
Details about what those packages include are still under wraps. The company hasn’t shared much about amenities, training requirements, or how long guests would stay.
A lot depends on future transportation options, lunar deployment logistics, and whether the habitat is successfully installed and certified for human use. It’s a reservation built on trust, patience, and a strong stomach for risk.
GRU’s larger plan goes far beyond hosting wealthy tourists. The company focuses on in situ resource utilization, meaning it intends to build structures using materials found directly on the Moon.
A demonstration mission is planned for 2029 that would turn lunar regolith into bricks and test a modular pressurized habitat system. A follow up mission would begin constructing the hotel’s foundation inside a lunar cave, with a third mission aiming to officially open the doors.
That hotel is just step one. GRU outlines a long term roadmap that includes building America’s first Moon base with roads, warehouses, mass drivers, and other physical infrastructure.
After that, the company plans to repeat the process on Mars, establish cities, own property on both worlds, and reinvest profits into resource utilization systems across the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and beyond.
It’s a massive swing for a startup that’s asking people to put down real money for a place that exists only as a future promise. Still, for anyone who wants their vacation story to start with a rocket launch and end with a footprint on the Moon, this might be the most ambitious travel reservation ever offered.