Converting Old Hotel into Indoor Entertainment Centre. Advice is needed!

Hi! I’m new in this forum and I am very proud that I found it! Currently working in the hotel development team.

I am living in a town where the city itself is almost dead so it needs some place where its people could spend their time. That hotel is like city’s heart. The problem is that hotel is very old and not usable. Previous investors had a plan to make it into a hotel but the development stopped and that hotel is left now as a ghost in the town.

The plan is to make a hotel into indoor entertainment centre and hotel. It includes bath house underground, 2-floor night club, casino. We thought that to make only a hotel it wouldn’t be profitable so we need to make it into an indoor entertainment centre. The main focus now is on sky bar / rooftop (top floor).

We are trying to get some ideas on how we can implement a concept and make a nice place over there. We imagine the concept to be a cocktail bar, hookah and cigar lounge in the sky bar. We are trying to get as many ideas as possible on how the floor-top can be used to gather a lot of people to spend a nice time.

Another idea was to make hot tub cinema on the top of floor but we got rid of this idea because we have winter and it might be issue for that concept realization.

To get the point how the actual hotel looks like right now:



And the roof-top plan looks like:



I took some picture from top floor as well (sorry for only few photos):




These are ideas that could be implemented on the top of the hotel (sky bar: cocktail bar, hookah and cigar lounge, karaoke nights, etc.):



Do you have any ideas? Imagine: If you were this hotel owner, what would you make with floor-top?

I really would like to hear some opinions from the people who are experienced in this type of business and probably are hotel owners. Any people are welcome to offer ideas on top floor concept ideas. I would appreciate for your help.

P.S. Sorry for grammar mistakes as I am from Europe country.

 

This is an internet marketing forum, I doubt you'll find many hotel owners here.

 

The very first thing to do before undertaking such a big project like this is to see if it's even feasible. If the city you are in as you say is almost dead, then it might not be easy to get people to invest into the project. On the other hand, if you can make it all work out, then it just might help in bringing life back into the city. It is a big risk, and there are no guarantees. It will come down to if it is really feasible, and even if it is, if it can be profitable enough to have it stay up for a long time. I would think for a project this big, you would have to coordinate as well with city officials since in an indirect way, they have a stake on it as well. If this could possibly bring life back into the city, then their involvement might make this project a step closer to becoming real. Again, no guarantees. There will be so many things that would have to be done, and much money that would be involved. It is not improbable, but then by your description of its location itself as well as the history of that hotel are some red flags already that the project would be a big task to pull off.