A spokesman for Massaud, AurÈlie Ullrich, said: !The idea at the heart of this project is that passengers can see fantastic places like Thailand and the Caribbean without the need to build ugly hotels everywhere.
"It could land for a few days or for a week if there is a big event going on.
Lets see... a large "ugly" hotel will easily accommodate 2000 guests. Instead of one "ugly" hotel they're going to park these things for perhaps a week, but alas, they only accommodate 40 guests each.
So which is more ugly, a single 2000 guest hotel or having 50 of these things parked all around the city, and those 50 would only take the place of one hotel. Locations with 10 hotels could instead have 500 of these parked all about.
I think it's a neat idea and I'd like to take a world cruise in one, but their marketing should be based in reality.
Unfortunately, their marketing is based upon the reality of their target customer demographic, which is obscenely-wealthy, self-loathing eco-hysteric, Leftist celebrities :-)
I think that they're the main group that considers amazing engineering achievements such as tall buildings to be "ugly" :-)