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A LUXURY floating hotel opens in Gibraltar in March, Sunborn Gibraltar, the first five-star yacht hotel on the Floating Hotel fleet.

Gibraltar is a great place for a day trip. That’s how a lot of people treat the peninsula; they visit Spain or Morocco and travel there during daylight hours. Inevitably, they bring a heavy footfall to the jurisdiction and the Gibraltar Tourist Board is happy to see them – but it’s keen to make people stay on for everything else that’s going on.

Gibraltar’s first five-star hotel isn’t hampered by the territory’s lack of space – Sunborn is located on a permanently moored yacht. It contains 167 rooms and 18 suites, a grand ballroom, numerous bars and restaurants and a spa and gym.

This slick looking thing is the Sunborn Gibraltar: a floating five star hotel with bags of event space.

Ever wonder what it’s like to spend a night on a Russian tycoon’s super yacht? Once you got past the inappropriate levels of drinking, bare-chested homophobia and dark whiffs of czarism, it’s probably lovely.

A $224 million “yacht hotel” is set to put down its anchors permanently off the southern tip of Spain by the end of the year.

The Sunborn Gibraltar is one of the largest yachts in the world at an astounding 142 metres long and seven stories high, and it’s being marketed as a high-end hotel. In land-scarce cities like Gibraltar, ships like these may be the future of high-end hospitality.

The five-star floating hotel with 189 rooms and a ballroom coming to Gibraltar.

Imagine this: in your hot little hands you hold a blueprint for a luxury hotel in one of the most idyllic, and tiny, locations in the world. There’s just one problem — there’s no space to build the thing. The answer? Create a five-star yacht hotel. That’s exactly the thinking behind Gibraltar’s new $200 million Sunborn Yacht Hotel.