The Caterer Blog

 "The challenges are unique". Yes that's certainly one way to put the idea of building the world's first hotel on the craggy, no gravity surface of the Moon. And yet that's just what budget hotel chain Premier Inn is intending to do.

The Whitbread group has bought an option to build on the moon for a Princely sum of £24. The land will subsequently cost a further £1m from Moon Estates (come on are you kidding me?) Apparently the group feel "it is now more feasible than ever to expect travel to and from the moon to become a common occurrence within the next 20-30 years."

Now it might be just me, but if I had blown, what is bound to be, a hefty wad on flying to the moon, I think I might, just might, want to stay somewhere a tad more upmarket than a Premier Inn. A Four Seasons perhaps, hell even a Hilton!  This, coupled with the fact that you are most likely to be indoor-bound due to the absence of gravity outside for the entirety of your stay, makes the scarcity of extras in a budget hotel a very bad idea.