It’s a restaurant. I remember going there as a kid. Kinda like a diner style place.

Still there?

I think they’re renovating or did renovate it. Last time I was there a bunch of the old hotels were converted into condos and fixed up.

Royal Hawaiian owners quarters. Nice guy and a nice place.

Air traffic control

That's Blofeld's East Coast headquarters. Here's his HQ in Europe.

Ah, the saucer on top of the Royal Hawaiian. As a kid spending my summers in the Crest I always imagined it was some kind of cool control room, or an arcade full of the world's rarest games. Never actually went inside so I never found out!

Did it rotate?

Wow what memories this brings back for me. The smaller building on the left is the Astronaut Motel where my family stayed every summer for 20 years. Now many of the old motels have turned into condos. Is this still the Royal Hawaiian?

Nah. It’s stationary. Kinda disappointing because as a kid I wanted to go in the spaceship and then it was a restaurant, and then it didn’t even do anything! Stupid beautiful view….

Also. One thing to note. There’s more than one of these style of buildings. It’s been awhile but I know I was in one that was a restaurant. The other was supposedly a penthouse but I can’t confirm it because of time and because I don’t know if the other is still there.

So there's still a chance, however small, it is precisely those things you imagined.

This person is correct. It was a restaurant. I ate there only once as a kid. So sad to see this hotel like this.

Sit on it and

This was my landmark my junior and senior years of prom when I was too drunk to figure where i was!!! The UFO was my "Mothership" and it was 3 blocks in the other direction of my condo......good times......

It's a flying saucer disguised as a restaurant. Alien cockroaches may try to use it to escape in the future. Or maybe they did already and my mind was wiped.

A restaurant

Miss the old hotels n motels in wild wood gave the place fun character for me just my opinion

You think that’s just a cool restaurant, but it really is a spaceship hidden in plain site! There are two more in Queens!

the motel's restaurant. most of the motels along the crest had a coffee shop style restaurant on their top floors or roofs that served breakfast and lunch. idk how many of them still operate.

We always stayed next-door at the Singapore and I always wanted to go in the spaceship!

Nice! There was and still is a lot of cool buildings in Wildwood. We always stayed at the Bonanza, which, unfortunately, has been bulldozed and turned into condominiums. I will always remember the woody smell of the lobby, and the little banjo clock on the wall....

>We always stayed at the Bonanza

You just unlocked a deep core memory of my childhood.

Used to go to the saratoga inn for breakfast and lunch. Great owners and people