Following yesterday's 787 news, Hong Kong real estate tycoon Joseph Lau has just ordered a Dreamliner VIP. It's the same airplane you and I are going to use, but instead of being crammed in seat 36D between Biff, the overweight shoe salesman, and Chantal, the aerobic teacher from Fort Lauderdale, he'll have a 2,404 square-feet luxurious cabin all for himself. As a bonus, check the just-unveiled new interior designs for the 747-8 VIP, complete with SkyLoft, "vaulted ceilings, spiral staircases and video wall displays" after the jump.
While I really don't mind Chantal picking on my carrot cake, I would certainly prefer to have Lau's battalion of sexy cyborg ninjas resting on king-size waterbeds, having swan-feather pillow battles all over the place or taking a hot bubbly bath in a full-size english tub. Or something like that. Lau's VIP Dreamliner, just the 7th to be ordered in the world, costs $153 million at today's list price.
And if you prefer to have even more space, you can order a 747 VIP to enjoy its 4,786 square-meter cabin.


These new interiors, which include a new SkyLoft area, were presented yesterday in Geneva, at the European Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition.
Product page [Boeing Business Jets]








Comments
Holy crap!
Me for the Big Chair, but only if I can issue orders to the pilot from there.
This level of coolness is lost on the rich. :\
MY LORD! ... How do you get out of paying for the bill ... cause if someone has that answer, I'll take two.
I was thrilled when I got a minivan with a sunroof. The guy definitely one upped me.
Yeah, the fact that Chantal's an aerobics instructor could definitely be annoying but it'd certainly have an up-side (*ahem*). Biff, however, makes me shudder and he'd be horning in on Chantal himself. Salesmen. You know. So all in all, this'd be one of the very few times I'd actually have to choose the porn...er, video wall over the girl.
Now THAT, is tight.
You think they take credit cards?
I don't see any seatbelts on those seats.
I'd love to buy a house with an interior like that....
Why does it look like the Ten Forward lounge?
If you have to ask the price...
Having met an aerobics instructor on a flight to Australia, let me just say it isn't all bad. There are some advantages to sitting with your fellow proles.
what's gas going for liner's these days??
seriously though, that place is 10x bigger than my apartment. wonder if it will have a Wii?
Soul Plane.
I'd love to put a mock-up of the ST:TNG bridge on that thing. I'd pimp the whole thing out ST:TNG style yo!
Lau, not Law
@ bjarnia, if they DO take credit cards, you think they'll let you pay for the flight with miles? This plane's BOUND to rack up a free trip to Mars
...but I'm not sure I would want to be on the library ladder when we hit turbulence.
(and yes, that's the best I could do searching for something, anything negative to say about this so I would feel better about a life without one.)
I agree. Not that I'm complaining, but yes it does look like something out of ST:TNG/Ten Forward style of decorating.
Does a person with such a plane even stay at a Hotel when they get to wherever they're going?
i bet Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine from seinfeld) can buy one of these....since she's the 4th hottest billionaire heiress *sigh* http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/15/hottest-billionaire-heire...
It's like all your Sci-fi fantasies come true.
Would you like your Dreamliner to look like a Jules Verne submarine? We can do that.
Star Trek? No problem at all, have you seen our video wall?
Pan Am shuttle from 2001:A Space Odyssey? All that and without the magnet boots.
Love it.
Counselor Troy, fetch me a mimosa.
Number 1, kneel under my feet and vibrate.
Engage.
That thing shits all over Airforce One in the style stakes.
People would laugh at a tubular house, until they stepped inside and made a tube of their own in their pants.
Well thats one way to increase your carbon footprint
Perfect for any modern day Bond-esque mega-rich super villain. When is Rupert Murdoch getting his?
where's the kitchen and toilet?
I used to do installs of flight equipment on these kitted out 747s (787s were still being designed when I left). This plane looks like they had a crew from Home Depot come out and install crap - you should see the planes the different members of the Saudi Royal family fly.
Just goes to show you, just because you're rich, doesn't mean you have taste.
Dear Mr. Lau,
Would you adopt me?
Contact me at: Adoptme@ibegyouplz.com
Thank You!
Wow, it even comes with plastic people, in case you haven't got any real friends.
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