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Basically, for anyone who just HAS to get the full undersea living experience today, there is a reburdished undersea lab from the 70s that was turned into a 4 room hotel called the Jules Undersea Lodge. It's actually one of the largest and nicest habitats that was built in that era, with the biggest windows on any habitat I know of. It's fully furnished, has all the amenities, and it sits a few dozen feet away from a second smaller habitat called Marinelab with a spherical glass observation bubble you can sit inside of while you pilot an ROV. So you not only get a hab to sleep, eat and relax in, but there's another one to go visit and explore during EVAs.

It all rests in about 30 feet of water which sounds shallow until you visualize it as multiples of your own height. There's a fridge, microwave, TV, DVD player, sinks in each room, a kitchenette and a moon pool to dive out of. Cost per night varies between $300 and $400 depending on the activity package you purchase (like whether you visit Marinelab or not, and whether or not you get a pizza delivered)

www.jul.com

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>>Because a large steel tube structure that i could fit a mattress through would be so expensive i couldn't afford one day's rent there if i worked for the rest of my life?

Residential modules will cost about $100,000-$150,000. Less than most small houses.

>>Also, there already is an underwater hotel. It costs $30,000 per couple, per week because guess what? It's ludicrously expensive to have luxury on the bottom of the ocean no matter how shallow.

You're talking about the Poseidon Undersea Resort. It has not yet been built. There is an undersea lodge that has been in operation since 1986, and it costs $125 for a three hour stay or around $400 overnight. Pic related.

>>You seem to be coming from a viewpoint in which the concept of money does not exist. This is why it is utterly impractical and why i mock you.

Feel free to. I know a great deal more about the history of manned undersea installations, the technology involved, what's being done with them today and what is practical to do given current technological and financial constraints. You're coming at this from a comparatively uneducated point of view.

I don't know that they'd let you get busy with your girlfriend in here, but a 3 hour stay is $125 per person. Overnight is something like $435, or $500 for the full package including dinner, scuba expeditions, etc.

This would be the primary competition. Note the terrible visibility, due to being in a cove.

Sea hotels!

One such hotel is the Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida. About $400 per night, or $125 for a three hour visit, it's roughly 30 feet underwater and was previously a science lab called 'La Chalupa".

Better lighting in this one. It was built in the 80s and it shows.