June 1, 2010
Grand Canyon Caverns
Milepost 115 Route 66
Peach Springs AZ
Shelly Mussel 928 422 4565
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www.GrandCanyonCaverns.com
Cavern Suite 220 feet below ground Opens June 1, 2010
220 feet below the surface lays the newly built Grand Canyon Cavern motel
room. A single room, in the largest dry cavern in the country, located off
route 66 in northern AZ. The Caverns suite opens June 1st and is the
largest, deepest, darkest, oldest, quietest motel room in the world, and
just in case, it also doubles as a bomb shelter for 2000 people.
Just completed, the room is 125 feet wide by 300 feet long with a 70-foot
ceiling. The walls are over 65 million years old, its 220 feet below the
surface, absent of any light, and the only sound is your heart beating and
your breath. You are the only living thing in the caverns. The only living
thing. No insects, bats, animals, bugs, fungus, nothing to bug you! This is
because the air comes in from the Grand Canyon through 65 miles of limestone
caves, which take out 94 percent of the moisture in the air, hence, no
water, no life. The temperature in the room feels like it¹s in the mid
60¹s, very comfortable with a t-shirt on. You access the caverns via a
22-story elevator.
In the middle of this huge dry cavern a 16 X 28 foot platform was
constructed with a 30-inch high sidewall. Within the platform is a complete
motel room with beds, sofa¹s, dining area, mini kitchen, library, bathroom
with shower (ceiling 50 feet above it) TV, phone and entertain center.
The project was the brainstorm of Mike Kadletz, one of the Caverns owners.
Kadletz had always wanted to spend the night down in the CavernsŠ but,
without a comfortable place to sleep, eat and use the restroom, it never
happened, until now. His wife Karen hated the idea, and said she could never
stay there. Well, she tested it out with Mike and the 4 kids and fell in
love with the Caverns suite. The entire family now believes in the suite and
looks forward to spending the night down there again.
The rate for an evening may be considered expensive for the night, but only
one room is available, and it is a once in a lifetime experience. The room
is also set up to have private dinners or meetings for up to 12. It is also
available for very private concert performances. Above ground, the property
also has a 48-room motel as well as a full service restaurant, RV Park, bar,
rodeo arena, airstrip and other operations.
The room and cavern tours are access via a one-stop elevator. The guided
tours operate daily from 9 to 5, so the guest should be ready from visitors
earlyŠ or check out by 9. Operating with the elevator since 1961, the Grand
Canyon caverns have been one of the longest operating tourist attractions on
RT 66. Prior to elevator, the tours were escorted down a stairway the 22
stories, and before that, the tourist was lower by a rope and bucket after
paying 25 cents. That is where the saying ³dope on a rope² originated.
For additional information please contact:
Shelly Mussel
928-422-4565
email :
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www.GrandCanyonCaverns.com
Milepost 115 Route 66
PO Box 180
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