Investment · September 27, 2026 · 9 min read
The short answer: a SkyLodge glass glamping dome costs from €17,800 to €104,000, depending on the model and the glazing. The long answer is what that sum covers and what comes after it.
The short answer is above. This is the price of the dome: the fully glazed structure, engineered and ready to be installed. It is not the price of a finished unit that takes guests, and the gap between those two numbers is where budgets go wrong.
Below are both halves. First the catalogue prices of the six models, then everything that comes after them — with an honest line about which of those can be given as a figure today and which can only be quoted once we have seen the plot.
Every model comes in two configurations and two glazings. Classic is the structure with its zones laid out. Avangarde adds the enclosed bathroom and the loft bedroom above it and carries the “ready to use for glamping” badge. Custom is developed around one specific use and is the only version delivered turnkey.
| Model | Floor area | From |
|---|---|---|
| SkyLodge 5 Classic | 20 m² | €17,800 |
| SkyLodge 5 Avangarde | 20 m² | €19,800 |
| SkyLodge 6 Classic | 28 m² | €25,000 |
| SkyLodge 6 Avangarde | 35 m² | €31,200 |
| SkyLodge 8 Classic | 50 m² | €44,500 |
| SkyLodge 8 Avangarde | 70 m² | €62,300 |
| SkyLodge S5 · Sophie | 45 m² | €28,200 |
| SkyLodge S6 · Sophie | 64–73 m² | €40,500 |
| SkyLodge S8 · Sophie | 114–130 m² | €72,000 |
The column shows the more accessible glazing: mirrored Silverstone for the 5, 6 and 8, and reflective Stopsol for the Sophie series. Solar-control SN Control, in three tints, adds about 8% to each line. The full price list, with both glazings against every configuration, is in the 2026 catalogue.
On the round domes the arithmetic is flat: €890 per m² with mirrored glazing and €965 per m² with SN Control, from the 20 m² SkyLodge 5 to the 70 m² SkyLodge 8 Avangarde. A bigger dome is not more expensive per square metre, which is the opposite of how conventional building behaves. The Sophie series is priced on its own logic, because two half-domes and a glazed passage are a different structure.
That flat rate is also the honest way to compare us with a cheaper offer. If a quote is well under €890 per m², the difference is in the two materials that make up the envelope, and those are the two that decide the running cost for the next fifty years.
Three levers, and only one of them is really a budget decision.
The glazing. SN Control solar-control glass, in three tints, sits about 8% above the mirrored or reflective option. This is not a place to save: the tint decides how much solar heat enters, so it is chosen by orientation and climate. A south-facing dome in Greece and a north-facing one in Finland want different glass.
The configuration. Going from Classic to Avangarde adds the enclosed bathroom and the loft bedroom above it. On the SkyLodge 6 that step is €6,200 and it takes the dome from two beds to four; on the SkyLodge 8 it is €17,800 and takes 50 m² to 70 m². Measured per bed, the larger step is usually the cheaper one.
The colour and the count. Twenty-five standard RAL tones are in the price and a custom RAL is quoted on request. Ordering several domes for one site does not discount the dome, but it does share the transport and the installation crew across more units.
The comparison that matters is not the purchase price but the fifty-year one. A fabric shell is replaced every few years. Conventional building needs a construction permit, concrete and, at the end, demolition. A glass dome needs a siting permit and a podium, and it comes apart. We have put that side by side over seventeen criteria — structure, thermal bridge, legal status, comfort, maintenance, nightly rate, running costs and the capital you get back — on the advantages page.
Five things sit outside the dome price, and all five depend on the site rather than on the model. None of them is a mystery, but none of them has a catalogue number either.
The dome stands on a dry podium: a raised timber or metal deck on screw piles, with no concrete foundation and no excavation. What moves the price is the slope, the bearing capacity of the ground and whether a machine can reach the spot. A level, accessible plot is the cheap case.
The dome arrives wired for lights and sockets. Bringing power and water to it is a local job, and the only figure that matters is the distance to the boundary of the plot.
Classic and Avangarde have the living, kitchen, dining, bathroom and sleeping zones marked out in the structure, but they arrive unequipped. The fittings and the furniture are quoted on request; the interior design and its own quotation are handled by our partner studio Rosco Design, so the inside has one drawing set and one responsible party.
Installation on site is three to five days, after about two months of production from the deposit. Transport is priced per kilometre and per number of loads, so the same dome costs differently in Bulgaria, in Greece and on an island.
The dome is classified as a movable structure — nothing is permanently fixed to the ground — but placing one still needs a siting permit, and the fee is municipal. What the classification means in practice is in the article on permitting a movable structure.
On a sunny winter day the dome heats itself to 23–25 °C and the heating can stay off. At night it asks for more heating power than an ordinary room of the same floor area, and we size that for your climate before the order rather than after it.
Four SkyLodge 6 Classic with mirrored glazing come to 4 × €25,000 = €100,000 for the domes alone, housing eight guests. The same four as Avangarde, with the enclosed bathroom and the loft bedroom, come to 4 × €31,200 = €124,800 and house sixteen. Against either number you then add four platforms, the delivery, the installation and the interior. We quote those after a site visit; guessing them here would be the least useful thing this article could do.
Any model also stands on a certified BulDock pontoon. The platform with its propulsion motors starts at €31,500 and the dome is added at its catalogue price, so a floating unit is always two figures rather than one. Five platform sizes cover the range from the SkyLodge 5 to the Sophie 6; they are listed on floating domes.
The return depends on three local numbers: the nightly rate you can charge, the occupancy you can fill and the length of your season. We do not publish one promised yield, because those three decide it and all three are local. The model that works them through for a single unit is in the article on glamping returns, and density, capex per 1,000 m² and the distributor tiers are on the Investors page.
What can be said without a model: a glass dome is bought once and operated for 50+ years, the aluminium does not rust and the glazing is not a consumable. A fabric shell is replaced every few years, and that replacement is the line that quietly decides which of the two was cheaper.
Three steps, none of which needs a meeting. Pick a model from all glamping domes, where every size and price sits next to its dome. Tell us the plot and the intended use through contacts. You get a proposal with the price, the lead time and a delivery outline.
A SkyLodge is hard to judge from photographs, so there is a fourth step if you want it: there is an assembled dome at XOPark Sofia you can walk into, and we will advise you on your project free of charge.
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