When you can sleep with sharks, why go swimming with them?

That is precisely what The Muraka, the first hotel villa found underwater, offers. In the center of the Indian Ocean, more than 16 feet below sea level, is a two-story aquarium called The Muraka. It has glass walls that let you see fish swim overhead while you sleep and coral swing its arms as you awake.

The Hilton’s Conrad Maldives Rangali Island resort, which is renowned for its firsts, is connected to the Muraka, which made its debut in November 2018.

According to Melissa Locker of Architectural Digest, “The resort was the first hotelier in the Maldives to perch villas on stilts above the water, the first to open an underwater restaurant, and now they are the first to sink a residence into the briny depths.”

The Muraka, which means “coral” in the indigenous Dhivehi language, charges $50,000 per night before taxes for its peculiar experience. According to Bloomberg, that is nowhere near the unbelievable $15 million cost of construction.

Architectural Digest claims that the 600-ton bottom level was constructed in Singapore and then carried to the Maldives on a specialized ship before being safely submerged close to a coral reef. Ten concrete pilings provide its stability in inclement weather.

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Check out what’s below the waves in the video below.