Unusual hotels. The most unusual hotels in the world (50 photos, descriptions). Tree houses in Kadir, Turkey

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The hotel is composed almost entirely of ice and snow and blends in perfectly with the Norwegian landscape. Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel is one of the most beautiful and unique hotels in the world. It is built every autumn, and in January it opens its doors to visitors. In summer the hotel melts and everything starts from the beginning.

Temperatures at this 30-room Igloo Hotel hover around 20 degrees Fahrenheit (-6 degrees Celsius) and guests are required to wrap themselves in blankets and deer furs to stay warm. The hotel is close to the Alta River and boasts saunas, hot tubs and other spa treatments. This is probably the most amazing hotel imaginable.

2 Montaña Mágica Lodge, Chile

Shaped like an anthill, the Chilean hotel allows visitors to feel like they are part of a forest. Montaña Mágica Lodge is very organic and actually merges with environment, a waterfall falls from the top of the building, which adds to the building's even greater appeal. All furniture is carved from various trees, which create an incredible coziness.

However, despite its natural appearance, the 13-room abode provides a range of modern amenities such as a sauna, jacuzzi, bar and golf course.

You can explore the interior of this "anthill" by watching this video:

3. Arte Luise Kunsthotel, Germany

Located in Berlin, this hotel is a sanctuary for art lovers and tourists alike. Each of the 50 rooms was designed by a particular artist or designer.

Another plus is that the Arte Luise Kunsthotel offers its rooms at surprisingly reasonable prices. And since each room has been designed in a different style, you can book a room based on your own artistic preferences.

The artists who worked on the Arte Luise Kunshotel were given full creative control over the entire process. They chose everything from style to furniture and decorations. This explains such a variety of images and the lack of a single style. Some rooms are made in a simple, classic style with black and white vertical stripes on the walls.

Others offer to admire the beautiful fabulous landscapes. But in the room designed by Thomas Baumgartel, we can see images of bananas painted on the walls and bed.

4Sala Silvermine Hostel, Sweden

In the mines, near the small town of Sala, you can find the deepest underground hotel in the world, which is located more than 150 meters underground.

The hotel, similar to the Mines of Moria from The Lord of the Rings, offers its guests rooms in the most minimalist style imaginable.

Also, here you can take a tour of the underground mines in which rooms are built. Mine Lux provides guests with the best rooms with free wine and cheeses, but here we see minimal amount furniture, each room has only one bed and two armchairs.

If you decide to visit this wonderful place, make sure you take a warm jacket, because the air temperature in the mines is between 2-18 degrees Celsius.

5Nhow Berlin, Germany

Modern, futuristic, trendy, bright - that's how you can describe another German hotel. Designed by Sergey Tchoban, it was created as an abode for musicians, although any guest will appreciate the beautiful colors, texture and modern elements design.

How Berlin provides a number of unusual services, including you can play a Gibson guitar or Casio keyboards for free, which will be delivered to your room! Musically sophisticated guests of the hotel will certainly enjoy the radio with hundreds of radio stations. The hotel also has two recording studios and an art gallery.

Nhow provides the perfect environment for writing music. This hotel is a paradise for a musician!

6. Treehotel, Sweden

Located in the Harads Forest, near the Lule River, the Treehotel has less than ten rooms, but each one is unique. All rooms are located at least 3 meters from the ground.

Although some of the rooms are still under construction, those that are already built are amazingly beautiful and mesmerizing. "Bird's Nest" - a hanging room in the form of a cube, covered with various shelves and branches, easily explains its name.

Perhaps the most impressive room in the hotel, the "Mirror Cube" is a square box covered in mirrors. The structure reflects the forest in which it is located, and at a certain angle an illusion is created that the cube does not exist at all. Inside the room, quite spacious and simple interior emphasizes the beautiful view outside the window.

Also in this hotel there are rooms called "UFO", "Blue Cone", "Dragonfly" and "Cabin". Most rooms can only be reached by a rope or metal ladder.

7. Barin Ski Resort, Iran

If you ask visitors to describe Barin Ski Resort in just one word, the answer is "white". This ski resort, which is located near Shemshak in Iran, was built in 2008.

Incredible Facts

The first thing that every hotel owner thinks about is who will become its visitors.

A place to stay has to meet the needs of the visitor, and what's good for a two-week luxury getaway isn't necessarily what's needed for a one-day business trip. Likewise, for the more adventurous visitor, the typical hotel environment may seem boring.

For such fearless, quirky travelers, these unusual hotels were built.


The Mirrorcube Hotel, Harrads, Sweden


Hotel TheMirrorcube is a lightweight 4x4x4 aluminum box suspended around a tree trunk and covered with mirrors. The hotel itself can accommodate two people, and the room has a double bed, a small bathroom, a living room and a rooftop terrace. You can get to the hotel by a rope bridge connected to another tree.

The hotel is camouflaged under a tree canopy, and one-way mirrors offer a 360-degree view of the surroundings. In order to prevent birds from colliding with reflective glass, the glass is coated with an ultraviolet color that is only visible to birds.

Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden


Hotel ice hotel- This is the largest hotel made of ice and snow. Visitors can sleep on a bed made of snow and ice, like most of the furniture, at minus 5 degrees Celsius.

Every year the entire hotel building melts and then rebuilds again. In November, a team of architects rebuilds the rooms, the bar and the chapel out of several tons of ice. And if you dream of walking in snowy clothes, then it is worth visiting this hotel again, because every time it will be a different hotel.

Marmara Antalya Hotel, Antalya, Turkey


Hotel Marmara Antalya consists of 208 rooms overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, the Taurus Mountains and Antalya.

This is the world's first revolving hotel. The top floor, which houses 24 rooms, rotates to provide visitors with an ever-changing view. The hotel floats in a pool with a capacity of 478 tons of water, and with the help of six electric motors, it rotates 360 degrees at the base several times a day.

Dog Bark Park Inn, Cottonwood, USA


Hotel Dog Bark Park Inn(Hotel complex Dog Lay), is a building in the form of a large beagle, offering bed and breakfast and accommodating up to four people at a time. Visitors can enter the huge dog's quarters through the balcony. There is a bedroom in the dog's head, a gazebo inside the muzzle, and a toilet hidden in a fire hydrant.

Huge beagle named SweetWilly, more than 9 meters high, more than 10 meters long and more than 4 meters wide, is made of wood and covered with plaster, and the ears are made of carpet.

Jules Underwater Lodge, Key Largo, USA


Hotel JulesunderwaterLodge is a former research laboratory and the world's first underwater hotel. She rests on stilts 1.5 m from the bottom of a tropical lagoon surrounded by aquatic wildlife.

To get inside, visitors dive 6.4 meters underwater and enter the room through the floor of the room. Compressed air prevents water from rising and flooding the room. Also, in order to visit this hotel you will need to take a 3-hour underwater course.

Tianzi Hotel, Hebei Province, China


Built in 2000, the 10-storey building embodies chinese gods Fu, Lou and Shu which symbolize good luck, prosperity and longevity. Hotel Tianzi is the largest hotel-image in the world. God Shu, the one on the left is holding a peach in which the suite is located, and the entrance to the hotel is located at his right foot.

Sandcastle Inn, Weymouth, UK


This coastal resort is made entirely of sand, namely 1100 tons of sand. Over the construction of the hotel, which was completed by 2008, 4 sculptors worked, who built it during the week for 14 hours a day. However, the hotel itself held out until the first heavy rain.

For $15 a night, visitors could fall asleep under the stars and be woken up by the tide lapping against the hotel door. This hotel is not the best way, for those who do not like sand in their swimsuit or those who need a closed toilet.

Hotel Karostas Cietums, Liepaja, Latvia


This hotel is a former military prison built in 1905, hosting revolutionaries, enemies of the people in Stalin's times and later the KGB. While an exemplary hotel should be safe, clean and have good staff, a hotel Karostas, breaks all the fundamental concepts of hospitality, offering visitors to live in the gloomy atmosphere of a prisoner.

Here you can sleep on the rough bunks of the prison, taste the prison food and experience not the friendliest treatment from the prison guards.

Kokopelli's Cave Bed and Breakfast, Farmington, New Mexico, USA


This one-room cave house, 30m underground, was hewn out of the rock in 1980 with three openings for ventilation and electricity. Visitors can reach this bed and breakfast by walking up a steep cliff and stairs. To stay at the hotel you need to sign a liability waiver.

Godiva Chocolate Suite Hotel, New York, USA


chocolate maker Godiva built this suite entirely out of chocolate, including armchairs, bed, artwork, lamps and walls. In 2008, the chocolate room was moved to a hotel BryantPark for Valentine's Day. Incredibly sweet, this hotel room is more for eating than sleeping.

Hotel Palacio de Sal, Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia


The hotel consists of a living room, dining room, bar and 15 bedrooms made entirely of salt. The hotel was built from salt blocks brought from the wide surrounding salt plains and held together with a cement-like mixture of salt and water. The only things not made of salt in this hotel are the toilets and the tin roof. A small note: the owner of the inn urges visitors not to lick the walls.

Kumbuk River Inn, Buttala, Sri Lanka


The hotel is located on 16 hectares of desert along the river Oya Kumbukkan, where visitors can stay in the belly of a giant elephant. The two-story ecological hut is built of grass and twigs, and on windy days the inn begins to sway.

Giraffe Manor Inn, Nairobi, Kenya


Modeled after a Scottish hunting lodge, this elegant six-room inn features giraffe heads sticking out of its windows. The owners of the hotel are just obsessed with giraffes. In the estate, you can see living giraffes sticking their heads out to the guests in the hope that they will be fed. This place also houses a conservation center and an orphanage for elephants.

Hotel on wheels Hotelmóvil


Hotel Hotelmovil can be located anywhere where there is ample public parking, being a two-story trailer with 11 bedrooms that can accommodate up to 44 people. This mobile hotel has an outdoor terrace, private bedrooms, flat-screen TVs, Wi-Fi, and luxurious amenities that claim to be five-star.

HotelmarquesdeRiscal, Rioja Alavesa, Spain


Hotel marques offers 43 uniquely shaped rooms in two sections connected by an impressive suspension bridge. The whole building rises on columns, which allows the space below it to be used as an entrance platform.

The billowing titanium awnings that adorn the hotel are not only functional, but pleasing to the eye. Perched on sunny hills, these colored metal plates serve as an environmentally sustainable umbrella and temperature modulator.

Hotel de Vrouwe van Stavoren, Stavoren, The Netherlands


Hotel de Vrouwe converted wine casks into four double rooms with standard amenities, a bathroom and a living room. Wooden barrels holding 14,500 liters of wine are still fragrant with wine Beaujolais that was once kept here. Although the rooms are quite small, they are very durable and airtight.

HotelRyugyong, Pyongyang, North Korea


Also called Hotel of fate, Ryugyong once aspired to be the tallest hotel in the world. The 105-story, 3,000-room project was abandoned in 1992 for economic reasons, but construction resumed in 2008.

Instead of being the tallest hotel in the world, it has become the worst designed building in the world.

IKEA Sovhotell Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden


For those who are pretty exhausted shopping, in the center of the Stockholm shopping center is a hotel Sovhotell.Company IKEA offers weary shoppers pillows, sleep masks and even soothing music. Here you can find single and double beds, and even a honeymoon suite. It is possible that the companies are simply fed up with customers who constantly test their mattresses for durability.

Many tourists fed up with sightseeing different countries, say that almost all hotels, especially chain hotels, seem the same to them. The difference is only in the landscape outside the window. But the hotel business does not stand still and every year presents more and more new projects of extravagant and amazing hotels.

In this article we will talk about the most unusual hotels in the world. The "chip" of such complexes is contained in their original architecture and materials from which they are built, location or service. We hope you enjoy!

1. Utter Inn Hotel in Västerås, Sweden

The hotel is located in Vasteros, it has only 1 room, and even that is lowered 3 meters deep into Lake Mölaren. Once here, your windows will offer a view ... of the underwater world of the lake. Of course, not everyone can live here for a long time. But if you want to relax, escape from the hustle and bustle of the big city, then Utter Inn is at your service.

2. Gamirasu Cave Hotel in Cappadocia, Turkey

The hotel is interesting for its location inside the cliff, and in the lower reaches the mountain river rages. During Byzantine times, there was a monastic shelter here. It combines modern design with millennial frescoes very harmoniously. Going out onto the terrace, you can meet a shepherdess who leads the flock. Amazing place!

3. Capsule Inn Kinshicho Hotel in Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo is a busy world capital where accommodation is very expensive, including hotels. The Capsule Inn provides guests with a mattress, radio, TV and lights. The bathroom is shared by all guests. But if you suffer from claustrophobia, this hotel is contraindicated for you.

4. Hôtel de Glace in Quebec, Canada

In Quebec, this unusual hotel is built every winter, and all because it is made of ice. 15,000 tons of snow and 5,000 tons of ice are spent on its creation. The whole construction takes 5 weeks. Here guests will find an ice bar and an ice cafe where drinks are served in glasses carved from ice. They sleep here in sleeping bags, of course, on ice beds. And if you want a wedding in the style of the Snow Queen, then this is the best place to hold such a celebration - there is even an ice chapel!

Situated in the port town of Stavoren, this original hotel offers great views of the ships. But the main feature is that the rooms are in wine barrels with a volume of 14,500 liters.

6. Karostas Prison Hostel in Liepaja, Latvia

Hostel Karostas Prison is located in the former guardhouse building in Liepaja, Latvia. One of the fun that guests are offered here is the “conclusion”. The fun is dubious, but there is no release from tourists in the hotel. In addition, there are guided tours.

Malmaison Oxford Castle in Oxford, UK

Malmaison Oxford Castle is located in an 11th century castle. Even 18 years ago, in 1996, there was a prison of the Victorian era. The chambers here have been preserved to this day, where, in fact, tourists are offered to relax.

8. Harlingen Lighthouse Hotel in Harlingen, Netherlands

The hotel is located at the Harlingen Lighthouse. In 1998, the lighthouse was already supposed to go on a well-deserved rest, but they decided to give it a second life and built a hotel at the very top, and with a very interesting art deco design, in red and blue tones. A 360 degree view will give guests a sense of freedom.

9. Dog Bark Park Inn in Idaho, USA

This hotel is built in the shape of a dog, its creators are a married couple of artists who love dogs very much. As you might guess, everything inside the apartment is furnished with dogs. You must be aware that during your stay in the hotel, you will be part of the head of the animal, and you will go to the bathroom ... down the drain.

10. Al Maha Desert Resort and Spa in Dubai, UAE

In the middle of the Arabian desert, there is an amazing oasis hotel, made in the style of a Bedouin camp. The complex consists of 30 luxury tent rooms, each of which is equipped with a cooling system. The territory of the hotel is decorated with antiques and various artifacts from the desert. From entertainment here you will be offered falconry, horse and camel riding on sand dunes, as well as archery.

11. Huvafen Fushi in North Attol Male, Maldives

This place is a real paradise on earth. occupies a coral island, consists of 43 bungalows, each of them has its own swimming pool, internal garden, terrace. And there is also a huge wine cellar with a restaurant and a chic spa from the underwater pavilion. Diving, snorkelling, fishing and even stingray feeding are all available at Huvafen Fushi.

12. Heritance Tea Factory Hotel in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka

15. Das Park Hotel in Ottensheim, Austria

In the city of Ottensheim, there is the Das Park Hotel - it consists of sewer pipes. The rooms are designed for two, and it is quite comfortable here - there is a bed, a bedside table and a lamp. Of course, you should not expect more from a hotel made of pipes, but the guest sets the price for accommodation himself.

The hotel business is booming. And this is not surprising, because thanks to modern transport, millions of people are now traveling across the territory of Russia. For example, according to Rosstat, in 2016 more than 24.5 million foreigners visited Pushkin's homeland. In addition, according to the Level.Travel travel agency, 29% of Russians vacationed at domestic resorts.

The statistics of the increase in the number of hotels in Russia demonstrates the dynamics of growth. If in 2011 there were 8416 hotels in the country, then in 2015 this number increased to 13958. Due to the dynamic development of business between hotels, competition has intensified. In the hotel business, such an interesting phenomenon as unusual hotels in Russia has appeared. This article is dedicated to them.

Ecohotel LeapRus

Today, few people can be surprised by the arrangement of the hotel. Many people live in hotels while on business trips or on vacation. What in them, it would seem, can be exotic? Territory with lawns, reception, rooms, restaurant... And if everything is not so trivial?

Unusual hotels in Russia are sometimes erected in places where you don’t really expect to meet them, since the territory of the country allows you to do this. Imagine Mount Elbrus, located on the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria. It is notable for its year-round ski season and unrelenting snow cover even in summer. Seven ski slopes with a total length of 11 km annually attract thousands of snowboarders and skiers.

At an altitude of 3.9 thousand meters on the south side of Mount Elbrus, the LeapRus hotel was built. The project of an exotic structure was developed by architects from Italy. It is intended for skiers. Mounted LeapRus, like a spaceship, on a modular basis. Four compartments for human habitation were designed in Italy and transported by air to Elbrus. These capsules can accommodate up to 49 climbers.

Igloo hotel

Perhaps the most unusual hotel in Russia is located near which is located 80 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Those who wish for 6 thousand rubles. per person can live in a real Eskimo igloo hut, built of snow blocks and decorated in the style of the peoples of the North. Of these structures, a village was erected, consisting of three residential buildings, two of which have a diameter of 3 meters, and one - 6 meters. On the hotel territory there are thermal springs, heated buildings of the dining room and shower-toilet.

The temperature in the snow house is not lower than -3 o C. However, it is possible to sleep in it on snow beds, thanks to modern sleeping systems.

Sleepbox Hotel

This kind of hotels have become commonplace in Japan. However, if they appear in the center of Moscow, it will be possible to say about them: "Unusual hotels in Russia." By the way, this project was implemented at 27 Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street. The economy hotel is designed for people passing through the capital who do not want to spend money for a full room.

Slipboxes by architects Mikhail Krymov and Alexey Goryain are made of wood and aluminum. They are designed to accommodate one (10 modules) or two people (46 modules). The hotel complex itself is decorated in a non-trivial futuristic style. Designers tried to make people feel like they are in the dwelling of another civilization with a minimum of furniture (a bed, a shelf, a chest of drawers, as well as a mirror and a socket).

Chalet hotel in Russian style

There are also such unusual hotels in Russia, which seem to be created in order to fall in love with their guests. Their architecture seemed to embody the words of the King of Castile Alfonso the Wise: “A man has a lot, and he wants a lot, but among all the blessings of his life, only old wood for a fireplace, old wine for drinking, old friends for pastime and old books for reading are valuable. Everything else is nonsense."

It is this idea that has been implemented in the taiga dachas near Moscow, where individually designed log houses with fireplaces, Russian stoves, embroidered curtains, and patchwork quilts have been built. Almost all inventory and accessories are made by hand. Guests are offered Russian cuisine. The hotel has animators, cognitive activities in Russian architecture.

This hotel is located in Zvenigorod, at the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery.

castle hotel

What unusual hotels are there in Russia associated with the Middle Ages? For those asking this question, we can recommend the NesselbeckHotel, a castle hotel built not far from Kaliningrad.

It looks impressive, although it is 100% styling. The hotel complex is equipped with 23 rooms in knightly antiquity. The hotel has a unique brewery where beer is produced according to old recipes. The price of a room in it is from 3.3 to 15 thousand rubles.

Hotel in the Hermitage

Discussing interesting and unusual hotels in Russia, one cannot remain silent about the only hotel complex in the world operating under the museum brand. The hotel building is a creative expression of different architectural styles in different spaces.

Empire style is seen in the reception area and at the entrance, baroque and rococo in the rooms. The deluxe rooms model the features of the imperial apartments. Each room here is unique: among the 126 rooms of the hotel, no two are the same. The hotel positions itself as a luxury hotel.

Dream Castle Hotel

Unusual hotels in Russia and abroad often embody certain stories. For example, the Castle of Dreams hotel (Domodedovo). In it, the numbers have a specific name and are associated with a specific topic.

Choosing the Laguna room, the hotel guest will rest in a bed made in the form of a giant sea shell. In the room "Heaven" he will feel surrounded by some kind of light, bright environment. But here there are also numbers "Game", "Cabriolet"!

Mountain eco-hotel

The Aibga Ridge, located on the border with Abkhazia, is known for its ski resorts Rosa Khutor, Gornaya Karusel, Alpika Service. There, on a mountain slope, the chalet "Om Dom" was built. It has 10 rooms, in which there are no synthetic and industrial building materials at all. Wood, clay, wax-oil impregnation, straw are traditional for ancient Abkhazian architecture.

In the menu of hotel guests there is one made according to unique recipes. A wonderful landscape opens up from the roof of the hotel complex, yoga classes are held there. The price of accommodation in rooms - from 4070 rubles.

Conclusion

You can list unusual hotels in Russia for a long time. Their description will take many pages. Among them are the library hotel in Vologda, the hotel on the eastern stand of the Kazan Arena, the historical Bastion of Emperor Paul Hotel in Pavlogorsk, and the best spa hotel in Eastern Europe, Luciano (Kazan).

Obviously, thanks to modern building technologies, the list of unusual hotel complexes will only grow. Perhaps in the near future in Russia there will be hotels under water, in mountain caves.

I would like to wish the designers of such new hotels professional audacity and creativity. Indeed, in the world of architecture, those who create something unique make names for themselves.

When deciding where to go on vacation, people often spend a lot of time looking for a hotel. It should be both comfortable, convenient, affordable, with good plumbing, clean sheets and different from previous Hiltons and Hyats, in which everyone has once stayed. Sometimes some places are worth visiting just because of the hotel.

If you love pets, especially dogs, then this hotel in Idaho, USA is definitely for you. The building of this funny hotel is built in the shape of a dog, and the whole interior is also devoted to the "dog" theme. A group of creative wood carvers worked to create this curious atmosphere. The food here, however, is much better than dog food, and picturesque views of the mountains and surroundings open from the windows.



At an altitude of 1700 meters above sea level, in the village of Les Cerniers, in the Swiss Alps, there is a high-tech ecological campsite - the Whitepod Hotel. On the territory of this heavenly place you will be offered to relax not only with your soul, but also with your body, taking part in ski expeditions. The length of the mountain slopes of that hotel is about 7 km (fortunately, each slope has its own lift). Only here, far from civilization, you can count on blissful silence, because you can only get to this magical place on foot or on skis, you will not be offered any transfers. Yes, they simply do not exist. But you can enjoy the best dishes from the chef and local national cuisine.


For the reconstruction of the old tower crane Made in 1996, adapted to work in port docks, a lot of effort, money and imagination had to be spent in the chic Harlingen Harbor Crane hotel. Dutch designers laid out a tidy sum of 200,000 euros. But the costs paid off handsomely. Two designer-made elevators deliver to the guest rooms of this unusual hotel. And inside they are no different from ordinary presidential suites, except that they are above the level of the Wadden Sea at an altitude of 60 feet. Well, if you are tired of the boring seascape, you can turn your room in the opposite direction by pressing a few buttons on your personal remote control.




In the suburbs of Nairobi, Kenya, in the middle of a family nursery for giraffes stands the extraordinary six-room hotel Giraffe Manor, built by David Duncan in the 19th century. Currently, the Giraffe Center operates on the basis of the nursery, where you can go on excursions. The luxurious decoration of the hotel, the colonial times of Sir Stanley Henry Morton and Livingston, is just its most uninteresting feature. Naturally, the neighborhood with graceful giraffes makes staying at this hotel the most unforgettable experience. They come to hotel guests, as a rule, during breakfast. And the guests are allowed to feed them from their hands, for this there is always a bag of food in each room.


Exploranter Hotel is an extreme hotel on wheels in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was invented by 33-year-old amateur extreme Flavio Merlo. His idea of ​​traveling through Chile and Argentina in luxury suites appealed to the spoiled consumer. The Exploranter Hotel is equipped with everything necessary for a tourist stay - a kitchen, a hall and 28 beds. The chef who cooks bold people from red ants is also surprising. The mobile hotel is designed for adventure tourists: rafting, horseback riding, hot air ballooning and hiking are the main activities of local guests.


Another unusual hotel last seen in Paris, the brainchild of two Swiss artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann "L/B". Initially, it was exclusively an art project designed for the Swiss Expo 2002. But soon the work found a commercial offer, becoming one of the most popular single hotels in the world. The itinerant capsule hotel first opened on the shores of Lake Neuchatel in France (2002), then moved to the rooftop of the Gallery of Modern Art in Leipzig, Germany (2006-07). And finally, from 2007 to 2009, she changed her residence permit back, finding herself in Paris on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo, the only museum in Paris open until midnight. The windows of the hotel now faced the Eiffel Tower. The room itself is equipped with a luxurious bathroom, a living room with a mini-bar and a bedroom.




The Propeller Island City Lodge is a fantasy hotel located in the heart of Prague. Of course, hotels in the Czech Republic are very diverse, but this hotel is able to surprise any traveler. The name of this hotel in Russian will be something like "City house-island with a propeller." The hotel is named after the novel by Jules Verne, which in Russian translation came out as "The Floating Island". Each room is a crazy flight of the artist's imagination. The rooms are filled with visual effects and unexpected details. There is, for example, the number "upside down". You sleep on the ceiling, on the bed, which is disguised by a hatch in the floor. There are other rooms ready to please you with their unusual "sleeping ideas", you can sleep in a mirror kaleidoscope, in a death cell, in a coffin, on a guillotine bed or in a lion's cage.




In New Zealand, there is an amazing Woodlyn Park hotel, where, instead of cozy cottages familiar to the eye, you will be offered to stay in the Hobbit Motel (houses stylized as hobbit dwellings from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy). But this dwelling resembles a hobbit mink only outwardly, thanks to the famous round doors. Inside, the room is equipped with modern furniture and appliances. You can choose between a double bed and a single room. On the territory of Woodlyn Park, it is proposed to settle in Train Motel - a reconstructed train from the 50s, Plane Motel - a Bristol Freighter aircraft from the 50s, reconstructed as 2 numbers and The Waitanic - a patrol boat of the Second World War.


In Sweden, in the town of Jukkasjärvi, 17 km from the city of Kiruna, The Ice Hotel is located. Every year since 1991, in collaboration with the architect Aimo Reisenen, this building has been renovated. The building made of ice and snow in its recreation also has a bar, a restaurant, a cinema, a church and even an art gallery. Here, not only the walls are made of ice - absolutely everything. And you have to sleep on artfully carved ice beds among deer skins. The hotel maintains an average temperature of -8, so for sure you will be a frequent guest of Absolut Voldka ICE Bar.


Gamirasu Cave Hotel is located in the town of Ayvali in the resort of Urgup, in the heart of Cappadocia, Turkey. This exclusive hotel was built in 1991. It is located in caves that are more than a thousand years old. They say that the monks of the Byzantine monastery used to live here. The hotel rooms are carved out of volcanic stone, as strange as it may sound. This stone is called "Tuff", it is the best insulating material, able to maintain the temperature all year round from 17 to -20 degrees.


Being a law-abiding citizen, you can stay at The Old Jail Hotel, in southern Australia, having received the keys to your own cell for several days. In the period from 1886 to 1995, these were active prison areas, which were later given by the Mount Gambier government for a hotel that has become one of the most popular in the world today. The guest will have to eat next to the toilet, live in a mess, well, at least they built partitions in the shower, dropping the soap is now not so scary.



On the uninhabited island of Poseidon, which can only be reached by plane (of Fiji), is the stunning Poseidon Undersea Resort. This hotel consists of 73 rooms located on the beach and underwater on stilts. And at a depth of 12 feet (15 m), among the coral lagoon, there is a real underwater hotel. There are 25 capsule rooms and a luxurious Nautilus Suite (300 sqm). 70% of each room is transparent, so you can contemplate the beautiful underwater life of the Fijian lagoon. Numbers in the form of removable blocks are attached to the pipe-corridor. For a tidy sum of $ 30,000 in this sea paradise, you can spend 5 nights in rooms on the beach and 2 nights underwater.


For more than three years now, one of the most unusual hotels in the world, the Capsule Inn Akihabara, has been flourishing in Tokyo. This hotel consists of two parts: a common living room and a private space for each guest, where the famous capsule rooms are located. The capsule room is made of reinforced plastic and includes all the necessary amenities: TV, radio, alarm clock, lighting, internet, a rather comfortable bed and ... no space. And it seems there are no minuses in it, unless, of course, you suffer from claustrophobia. And, yes, there is also a bathroom, which is also shared and located in the hall. A capsule room will run you about $24-$49 per night. In fact, this is not so much, judging by the fact that in 2010, during the crisis, the Japanese removed such capsules for a month.

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