The most unusual design of hotel rooms and beds. Unusual hotels in the world - in the jungle, caves and under water. Whitepod, Les Cerniers, Switzerland

What could be better than spending an unforgettable vacation in a flying saucer or an underwater capsule, or in an icy kingdom? Whatever you choose, you will remember this vacation for the rest of your life.

1. Attrap’Reves - Alpes of Haute-Provence, France

Guests of this hotel enjoy living in bubbles made of transparent elastic material, which does not transmit ultraviolet radiation during the day and protects against insects and dampness at night. The grass floor and telescope are nice additions to the comfort. Cylindrical corridors lead inside the rooms. Cost of living - from 139 euros.

2. The Manta Resort - Pemba Island, Tanzania


It would be an ordinary resort hotel on the seashore, if not for one thing - a floating house with an underwater room, which is located 250 m from the shore. Accommodation in the Underwater Room costs about 1,000 euros per day, in regular hotel rooms - from 405 euros.

3. Poseidon Undersea Resort - Fiji


This hotel includes 74 rooms, 25 of which are located underwater at a depth of 15 m, and the rest are built on stilts directly above the water. The underwater rooms are designed in the form of 50-meter capsules, connected by a so-called corridor. To observe the life of marine life from your room, you just need to turn on special lighting.
7 days (6 nights) of accommodation in such a room will cost 15 thousand dollars for one person or 30 thousand dollars for two.

4. Arctic TreeHouse Hotel - Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland


Arctic hotel with luxury apartments, located right under the treetops. The hotel is ideally located to admire the Northern Lights and visit Santa Claus Village, the world's premier Christmas destination. The cost of living is from 850 euros for 2 days.

5. Jumbo Stay - Stockholm, Sweden


A Boeing 747-212B (Jumbo Jet), once owned by a bankrupt Swedish company, was converted into a hostel in 2008 and placed at the entrance to Stockholm's Arlanda Airport. It was equipped with 29 rooms. The most expensive and spacious room is located in the pilot's cabin, offering panoramic views of the airport, while regular rooms offer views of the runway. The cost of accommodation is approximately $136 per night.

6. Skylodge Adventure Suites - Urubamba, Peru


This unusual hotel consists of 3 transparent capsules located at an altitude of approximately 120 m in the Sacred Valley of Cusco in Peru. The hotel's design allows you to enjoy the view of the valley below and experience a mountain adventure. Part of the adventure involves having to reach the capsule by climbing a cliff or negotiating a difficult path along mountain path. The cost of living is approximately 270 euros per day per person (capsule room capacity - up to 8 people).

7. Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort - Huzhou, China


A chic oval hotel - 27 floors above the water and 2 below. The cost of living in a double room is from 200 euros per day.

8. Inntel Amsterdam Zaandam - Amsterdam, Netherlands


The facade of this hotel consists of about 70 stacked houses, typical of Amsterdam. The cost of living in a double room is from 130 euros per day.

9. Free Spirit Spheres - Vancouver Island, Canada


Balloons suspended from trees and swaying slightly in the wind are the rooms of this hotel. The cost of accommodation is from 155 euros per day.

10. The Boot Bed’n’Breakfast - Tasman, New Zealand


The 2-story guest house is designed in the shape of a giant shoe. The cottage sleeps 2 people and is an ideal place for a romantic getaway. The cost of living is approximately 250 euros per day for a couple.

11. Giraffe Manor- Nairobi, Kenya


The main highlight of this hotel is the opportunity to spend the day in the company of Rothschild's giraffes, who from time to time peer through the windows in the hope of a treat. The cost of living is from 490 euros per day per person.

12. ION Luxury Adventure Hotel - Nesjavellir, Iceland


It seems as if the hotel is an extension of the Heingidl volcano. And the abundance of thermal springs in the area not only supplies the rooms with hot water, but also serves as a constant source of steam, which envelops the base of the structure and creates the illusion of a floating building. The cost of accommodation is from 496 euros per day for a double room.

13. Giant Wine Barrel Room - Sasbachwalden, Germany


The rooms are shaped like giant wine barrels and are located on picturesque hills covered with forest and planted with vineyards. Cost - from 156 euros for two.

14. Treehouse Lodge - Iquitos, Peru


Guest bungalows resemble bird's nests hidden in the treetops. This exotic pleasure is not cheap - for two people from 1,238 euros for 2 days.

15. Icehotel - Jukkasjarvi, Sweden


This ice hotel is a true gem of Sweden. The rooms are decorated with LED lights, animal skins, paintings and ice sculptures. Facilities are located in the adjacent (warm) room, where guests' belongings are also stored. Tourists who wish to stay in the ice room are given instructions. The cost of living is approximately 578 euros per night for two (spending more than one night in a cold room is not recommended).

16. Treehotel - Harads, Sweden


Unusual and incredibly beautiful hotel rooms are located right in the trees. There is a capsule with panoramic windows, a nest of a huge bird, a mirror cube, and even a flying saucer hovering in the air. Cost - from 500 euros for two.

17. Montana Magica Lodge - Neltume, Chile


The hotel is located in the Huilo Huilo Nature Reserve and looks like a volcano overgrown with plants. A suspended bridge at the level of the middle part of the building is the only way to get inside fairy house. The cost of living is approximately 367 euros for 2 days.

18. Societe Duvetnor - Quebec, Canada


The lighthouse, built in 1862 on the St. Lawrence River, was abandoned in the 1960s and was reborn as a hotel in 1989. This architectural monument of federal significance has only three double rooms and a common living room, which are decorated in the spirit of the last century. Cost - from 175 dollars per person.

19. Eco-hotel LeapRus - Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia


One of the highest hotels in the world is located at an altitude of 3,912 m above sea level. Now climbing Elbrus can be both extreme and comfortable: hot water flows from the tap at the overnight stay, the floors are heated, high-speed Wi-Fi, and the food is a full 3-course meal (even though it is extremely difficult to cook at such an altitude , boiling occurs at 80 degrees, and you need to cook for several hours). Tourists get to the hotel by cable car, and then by snowmobile.

20. Hotel "Igloo. Mountain Territory" - Nachiki village, Russia


An exotic hotel with an ethnic flavor is a complex of buildings made of large snow igloos. There is a lounge and a bar with a counter and an ice-cold fireplace. The rooms are designed for 2 or 8 guests. Snow beds with skins and sleeping systems that will keep even the most heat-loving people warm.

Incredible facts

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

Accommodation must suit the needs of visitors and be suitable for a two-week stay luxury holiday not always necessary for a one-day business trip. Likewise, for more adventurous visitors, a typical hotel setting may seem boring.

It is for these intrepid, quirky travel lovers that these unusual hotels were built.


The Mirrorcube Hotel, Harrads, Sweden


Hotel TheMirrorcube is a lightweight aluminum box, 4x4x4 in size, suspended around a tree trunk and covered with mirrors. The inn itself sleeps 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 via a rope bridge connected to another tree.

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

Icehotel, Jukkasjarvi, Sweden


Hotel Icehotel- this is the most large hotel made of ice and snow. Visitors can sleep on a bed made of snow and ice, like most of the furniture, in temperatures of minus 5 degrees Celsius.

Every year the entire hotel building melts down and is then rebuilt. In November, a team of architects rebuilds the rooms, bar and chapel from several tons of ice. And if you dream of walking in snow, then you should visit this hotel again, because each time it will be a different hotel.

Marmara Antalya Hotel, Antalya, Türkiye


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 contains 24 rooms, rotates, giving visitors an ever-changing view. The hotel floats in a pool that holds 478 tons of water and, with the help of six electric motors, rotates 360 degrees at its base several times a day.

Dog Bark Park Inn, Cottonwood, USA


Hotel Dog Bark Park Inn (Hotel The Barking Dog, a large beagle-shaped structure, offers bed and breakfast accommodation and can accommodate up to four people at a time. Visitors can enter the huge dog's room through the balcony. There is a bedroom in the dog's head, a gazebo inside the dog's muzzle, and the toilet is hidden in a fire hydrant.

A huge beagle named SweetWilly, over 9 meters high, over 10 meters long and over 4 meters wide, made of wood and covered with plaster, and the ears are made of carpeting.

Jules Underwater Lodge, Key Largo, USA


Hotel JulesUnderwaterLodge is a former research laboratory and the world's first underwater hotel. It rests on stilts 1.5m 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 scuba diving course.

Tianzi Hotel, Hebei Province, China


Built in 2000, the 10-story building represents the Chinese gods. Ew, Lou And Shu, which symbolize good luck, prosperity and longevity. Hotel Tianzi is the largest hotel-like hotel in the world. God Shu, the one on the left is holding a peach in his hand, which contains a suite, and the entrance to the hotel is located at his right foot.

Sandcastle Hotel, Weymouth, UK


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

For $15 a night, visitors could sleep under the stars and wake to the tide splashing against the hotel doors. This hotel is not the best option, for those who don't like sand in their swimsuit or those who need an enclosed toilet.

Hotel Karostas Cietums, Liepaja, Latvia


This hotel is a former military prison built in 1905, housing revolutionaries, enemies of the people during Stalin's times and later the KGB. While an exemplary hotel should be safe, clean and have good staff, the hotel Karostas, breaks down every fundamental notion of hospitality by inviting visitors to experience the eerie atmosphere of a prisoner.

Here you can sleep on rough prison bunks, eat prison food and experience less than friendly treatment from prison guards.

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


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

Godiva Chocolate Suite Hotel, New York, USA


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

Hotel Palacio de Sal, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia


The hotel features a living room, dining room, bar and 15 bedrooms made entirely of salt. The hotel was built from salt blocks that were brought from the wide surrounding salt plains and held together with a cement-like mixture of salt and water. The only thing that isn't made of salt in this hotel are the toilets and the tin roof. A quick note: the innkeeper urges visitors not to lick the walls.

Kumbuk River Hotel, 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 eco-hut is built from grass and branches, and on windy days the inn begins to sway.

Giraffe Manor Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya


This elegant six-room inn, modeled after a Scottish hunting lodge, is distinguished by the fact that giraffes' heads protrude from its windows. The hotel owners are simply obsessed with giraffes. In the estate you can see live giraffes, poking their heads towards guests in the hope of being fed. This place also houses a conservation center and an elephant sanctuary.

Hotel on wheels Hotelmóvil


Hotel Hotelmovil can be located anywhere where there is wide public parking, featuring 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 luxury 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 entire building rises on columns, which allows the space underneath to be used as an entrance platform.

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

Hotel de Vrouwe van Stavoren, Stavoren, Netherlands


Hotel de Vrouwe converted wine barrels into four double rooms with standard amenities, bathroom and living room. Wooden barrels holding 14,500 liters of wine still smell like wine Beaujolais, which was once stored here. Even though the rooms are quite small, they are very durable and airtight.

HotelRyugyong, Pyongyang, North Korea


Also called Hotel of fate, Ryugyong once aspired to become 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 becoming the tallest hotel in the world, it became considered the worst designed building in the world.

IKEA Sovhotell Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden


For those who are pretty exhausted from shopping, there is a hotel in the center of the Stockholm shopping center Sovhotell.Company IKEA offers tired customers pillows, sleep masks and even soothing music. Here you can find single and double beds, and even a honeymoon room. It is possible that the company is simply tired of customers who constantly test the durability of their mattresses.

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

This article will talk about the most unusual hotels in the world. The “trick” of such complexes is contained in their original architecture and the materials from which they are built, location or service. We hope you find it interesting!

1. Utter Inn Hotel in Västerås, Sweden

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

2. Gamirasu Cave Hotel in Cappadocia, Turkey

The hotel is interesting for its location inside a rock, and in the lower reaches there is a seething mountain river. During Byzantine times there was a monastic shelter here. Modern design is very harmoniously combined here with thousand-year-old frescoes. Going out onto the terrace, you can meet a shepherdess leading her flock. Amazing place!

3. Capsule Inn Kinshicho Hotel in Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo is a busy capital of the world where accommodation is very expensive, including hotels. Capsule Inn provides guests with a mattress, radio, TV and lights. The bathroom is shared with 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 entire construction takes 5 weeks. Here guests will find an ice bar and an ice cafe, with drinks served in glasses carved from ice. They sleep here in sleeping bags, naturally, on ice beds. And if you want a wedding in the style of the Snow Queen, then this the best place to hold such a celebration – there is even an ice chapel here!

This quaint hotel is located in the port town of Stavoren and 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. Hostel Karostas Prison in Liepaja, Latvia

Karostas Prison Hostel is located in a former guardhouse building in Liepaja in Latvia. One of the fun things offered to guests here is “conclusion”. The fun is dubious, but there is no end to tourists in the hotel. In addition, excursions are offered here.

Malmaison Oxford Castle in Oxford, UK

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

8. Harlingen Lighthouse Hotel in Harlingen, the Netherlands

The hotel is located at Harlingen Lighthouse. In 1998, the lighthouse was supposed to retire, but they decided to give it a second life and built a hotel at the very top, with a very interesting design in the Art Deco style, in red and blue colors. 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 realize that during your stay in the hotel, you will be part of the animal's head, and you will go to the bathroom... under the tail.

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

In the middle of the Arabian desert there is an amazing oasis hotel, designed 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 hotel grounds are decorated with antiques and various artifacts from the desert. Activities here include falconry, horseback riding and camel riding on sand dunes, as well as archery.

11. Huvafen Fushi in North Attol Male, Maldives

This place - real paradise on the ground. occupies a coral island, consists of 43 bungalows, each of them has its own swimming pool, internal garden, terrace. There is also a huge wine cellar with a restaurant and a luxurious spa with an underwater pavilion. Diving, snorkeling, fishing and even feeding stingrays are all available at Huvafen Fushi.

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

15. Hotel Das Park 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 are quite comfortable here - there is a bed, a bedside table and a lamp. Of course, you shouldn’t expect more from a hotel made of pipes, but the guest sets the price for accommodation himself.

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The most unusual hotels are located everywhere: in former water towers and trailers, prisons and libraries, in caves and ice castles, in trees and under water, in haunted houses and even in the crater of a volcano.

The latest news is that a Dubai company has announced a plan to build the first Lego hotel in the Middle East (and the seventh in the world) on the territory of Dubai Parks and Resorts. The Lego-themed hotel will be harmoniously located next to Legoland Dubai, which has more than 40 rides and attractions. Each of the 250 rooms of the miracle hotel and even the elevators will be integrated into storylines Lego.

The world's first Lego hotel appeared in 1991 in Denmark. The third, most famous, was built in Carlsbad. It cost the creators $50 million

There are more and more hotel wonders in the world and amateur travelers who want to try their delights for themselves. We have selected the most unusual hotels for an overnight stay to match the future Lego giant.

SeaventuresDiveResort: an oilman's dream

On the island of Sipadan in Malaysia, they thought of building a hotel on a former oil platform. In 1988, it was given as a gift to a certain Suzette Harris. The businesswoman improved the tower as best she could, it was towed to the Sulawesi Sea and has since been used as a hotel for divers. Its peculiarity is complete privacy among endless waters Indian Ocean. And here you can dive underwater without leaving the hotel: just go under the water in the elevator. The hotel rooms were a bit cramped and the smell of oil was ingrained forever, but there are always more than enough divers here: the underwater world, one might say, is under your feet.

Unusual hotels of the world - economy class chic

The Jumbo Stay Hotel (Stockholm, Sweden) is nothing more than an economical (by European standards) Boeing 747 converted into an economical hostel. It previously flew as part of the fleets of Singapore Airlines, Pan Am, TransJet, and since 2002 it has served as a haven for aviation-loving travelers. The airliner has only 31 rooms, there is also a suite - equipped in the former cockpit with panoramic view to Stockholm-Arlanda airport.

The saltiest hotel in the world

Palacio de Sal, also known as the salt palace, is located on the border with the Uyuni salt marsh in Bolivia at an altitude of about 3650 m above sea level. The hotel is built entirely from salt blocks - more than a million of them were used for furniture, walls, ceilings, ceilings and sculptures. The hotel on the edge of the world's largest salt marsh with an area of ​​10,582 km² (the bottom of a dry lake) appeared in 2007. Salar de Uyuni is known to be an important salt deposit in Bolivia and a famous tourist mecca.

Unusual hotels of the world - on wheels

Americans, who especially love unusual hotels, came up with the idea of ​​making a hotel in mobile caravans in the retro style of the 50s. On the coast Pacific Ocean in California, the distinctive resort (occupies 23 hectares) “Airstream” now consists of 20 mobile trailers with kitchens, dining rooms and all amenities. There are hammocks, black and white television, your own bar on wheels and a million items from the era of President Dwight Eisenhower.

Unusual hotels of the world - almost like a Bedouin

Al Maha Desert Resort is just 45 minutes from Dubai and feels like a thousand kilometers away from civilization. The entire hotel consists of comfortable tents arranged like Bedouin settlements, among sand dunes and grazing camels, antelopes. Each tent is designed in an ethnic style and contains dozens of unique crafts from local artisans. Guests are offered entertainment not in bars, but in falconry, camel safaris and archery exercises. Bedouins are Bedouins, but each tent has its own swimming pool, and the hotel itself is a solid “five”. Price
luxury - from $770.

For the opportunity to live like a Bedouin, albeit with your own pool, you need to pay about $800 per day

Unusual hotels of the world - a bird's eye view

Guests of Arlau Amazon Towers make their way to their room via hanging bridges, because the hotel is several wooden towers on the trunks of giant trees at an altitude of about 60 m above the ground. It has everything a hotel should: a restaurant, a conference room, a tower for newlyweds “Tarzan in Love”, just all this in the exotic atmosphere of the Amazonian jungle, where macaques jump, full of iguanas, colorful birds and even crocodiles. Among connoisseurs of natural beauty - wild bananas and orchids hanging from the window of the room - there are many celebrities who love unusual hotels, even politicians (Bill Clinton, for example). There are similar apartments above ground in India: at the Creek n Crag’s hotel there are only two rooms made of bamboo and twine, but they are on the territory of an old coffee plantation, in the middle wild forest, and the verandas overlook the watering hole of the “locals”.

Unusual hotels of the world - railway romance

The Crown Plaza Hotel&Conference Center hotel complex is a real hub station, where guests are accommodated in decommissioned carriages and business events are held, it is included in the Register of National Historical Places(USA). In Indianapolis, the train station was once located in the business center of the city, so the sleeping cars on their own tracks are always the center of attention and are not empty. Each rarity is named and decorated in honor of celebrities of the 20th century - Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Cowell Porter, Jean Harlow. The piquant thing is that the station lives its own life and still misses regularly scheduled trains.

The unusual hotel still operates as a station. Photo 10bestmedia.com

Unusual hotels of the world - cave age

60 km from Granada (Spain) there is a complex of caves that have faithfully served people for more than 7 centuries. Once they took refuge here from the raids of Muslim armies, and in our time 23 grottoes have been developed by the Cuevas Pedro Antonio De Alarcón hotel. All his apartments are carved into clay rocks, and inside the caves there is always a pleasant coolness - regardless of the heat reigning outside. It sounds ascetic, but the hotel has a swimming pool, a solarium, and a jacuzzi. And nearby is the Sierra Nevada Nature Reserve, medieval castle, hippodrome The hotel's closest twin brother is the Turkish Gamirasu in Cappadocia, built on the site of a Byzantine monastery with a thousand-year history. The difference is that the coolness in the rooms here is created not by clay, but by rock made from volcanic ash.

People have been living in these caves for over 700 years!

Unusual hotels of the world - 80 thousand leagues under the sea

Hotel "Jules" Undersea Lodge" in Florida is a real miracle of engineering, created in honor of the great science fiction writer Jules Verne at a depth of almost 7 m under water. For fans extreme species sports and try out unusual hotels here is a paradise, because even the meter-wide portholes of the rooms offer views not of the sea, but under it, and while lying in bed you can admire all sorts of sea monsters, anticipating a quick dive in full equipment. The mangrove lagoon, parrot fish, and barracudas will become your neighbors for the night - and there is no point in staying here longer.

Unusual hotels of the world - a children's fairy tale

Sparkles Family and Celebration Theme Hotel is a dream for little travelers. The mini-hotel in the city of Blackpool (Great Britain) all resembles a white Dalmatian with black speckles, and inside there is tinsel, garlands, and pink boas all over the place. The walls of the rooms are plush, the chairs are shaped like high heels, and every lunch or dinner is a themed food celebration. And all the entertainment programs smack a little of either cheerful madness or childhood: slides, trampolines, dry pools. And the owners themselves are professional animators and dreamers.

Self-tested: where avid travelers spend the night

We asked famous traveler, journalist and TV presenter Mikhail Kozhukhov to recall the most unusual hotels from his practice. Moreover, we caught him immediately after his return from a long trip across Central America. It is difficult to count how many hotels in the world he has stayed in during his practice (and yet the host of the projects “In Search of Adventure” and “Around the World” has been traveling around the world for almost 30 years). However, the president of the Travel Club Mikhail Kozhukhov has the most vivid memories from just two incredible places, where he was lucky enough to visit once.

Mikhail Kozhukhov told us about the most unusual hotels in the world, in his opinion

...in the castle of the Marquis de Carabas

The first is in France. There is such a department number 17 there, also known as Charente-Maritime, where the Marquis de Carabas once lived. The writer Charles Perrault once met him in Paris and as a result, this nobleman became the prototype of the hero of the famous fairy tale “Mr. Cat, or Puss in Boots.” So the castle of this Karabas has been preserved; it stood ownerless for a long time, until an Italian family bought it and breathed life into it (private residential castle La Roche Courbon / Chateau de La Roche Courbon). There are several rooms equipped to the standard of a five-star hotel. The only negative is there is no kitchen. And when you stay there for the night, the castle, that is, its fence, is locked, leaving the guests alone.

It so happened that I was there with Vladimir Krestovsky, the leader of the Uma Thurman group. It’s absolutely fantastic to feel like the owner of a castle with all its dining rooms, huge tables, Marquesian utensils, ghosts (they have some kind of horse “grazing” there at night). And the castle is completely real - with a moat, a park, a stone one, with spiral staircases and loopholes. The sensations are unusual, incredible. Despite the fact that this is not some crazy money, the price is affordable for everyone who can afford the trip to France. It's stupid to stay there for a week, but spending the night is a wonderful experience. And when morning comes, the gates open and breakfast is brought... you almost feel like the Marquis de Carabas.

The castle of the Marquis de Carabas is amazing in size. Photo panoramio.com

...in the land of David Livingston

In Zambia, there is a hotel near Victoria Falls called Sussi & Chuma. This was the name of the two natives who were transporting Livingston, who was sick with malaria (who lived in the 19th century famous explorer Africa, anti-slave trade fighter Dr. David Livingstone, Scotsman Auto) and even then his body when the doctor died during the expedition. The hotel was built in national park on such high pillars, between which, that is, essentially, under you, elephants walk, all sorts of birds fly. The monkeys steal the breakfast you are served. The room is absolute comfort, just beyond the pale: heated mattresses, copper washbasins and other attributes of luxury.

What shocked me most of all was that there was a book next to the bed, with a note and a postal envelope in it. It was a letter from the hotel owners with the following content: we offer you one of our favorite books about Africa, we hope you like it. If you do not have time to read it before the end of your stay at our hotel, please send it to us by mail in the enclosed envelope. This is so touching! The highest manifestation of customer focus. And it's expensive. But it’s impossible to save on yourself all your life, and this is the high cost that remains in the memory forever, and then throwing away another broken TV you understand that you don’t mind the money spent, because the emotions and impressions are with you forever.

You lie down, read a book about Africa, and elephants walk under the house. Cedarberg Travel Photos

Travel bloggers: on trips - 200 days a year

Orest Zub and Marta Trotsyuk do not specifically look for unusual hotels: they value comfort. However, the rich experience of moving is not without adventures; we still came across several special places.

The couple spends more than six months traveling

Unusual hotels of the world -Africa and Japan

“We recently visited East Africa, and the most unusual place to spend the night there was a small guesthouse in the National Park named after. Queen Elizabeth in Uganda. What was amazing was that we were immediately warned: not a single step out of the house at night, there were a lot of wild animals around, and the most dangerous ones were hippopotamuses, they come out of the water and rummage around in search of food, often attacking people. By the way, these are the animals that kill the most people in Africa, not lions or leopards. We saw one in the water, but weren't really looking for adventure at night.

By chance, through the Airbnb resource, we ended up in an incredibly traditional room, like in films about samurai. Such minimalism has not been seen anywhere else: in the room there was only tatami (mats on the floor), a wardrobe built into the wall from which mattresses for these tatami were pulled out, there was a sliding door, almost cardboard walls - and that’s all!”

The National Park in Uganda offers untouched nature and amazing air. Photo: vesveter

Unusual hotels of the world - Southeast Asia

“Many people dream of living in a wooden tree house by the beach and falling asleep to the sound of the surf. We also had such a dream, but after the first night in a bungalow in Cambodia, we realized that it was not so romantic when biting mosquitoes fly through huge cracks, the wind blows sand, and you have to go down to the ground to use the toilet. After the second night in such Robinson-like conditions, we moved 200 meters from the beach to standard comfortable conditions.

Two years ago we traveled around Taiwan and spent a week in a tea meditation center. This is a gathering of people who worship tea. For a week we woke up at dawn, meditated for an hour, had breakfast, then discussed tea for three hours, and in the evening again meditation and food (vegetarian). And once in Bali we lived for 3 weeks in a family estate that resembled temple complex with many chapels. This typical middle-income family numbered several dozen people, they brought us food in the morning and generally created complete comfort. But the feeling that we were living in a monastery did not leave us.”

In Cambodia, recreational conditions are quite spartan. Photo flickr

Unusual hotels of the world - South America

“Last year, on the way from Argentina to Chile, crossing the Andes, we stopped at the foot of Mount Aconcagua (the highest in the world outside the Himalayas, 6900 m above sea level). The only place to spend the night was the climbers’ camp: a place where equipment is prepared and things are sorted out before climbing. In the lowlands we were languishing in 40-degree heat, but here it was freezing, we put on all the clothes we had, huddled together to keep warm, but what kept us warm was the queen mountain nearby. By the way, the camp was located next to the climbers’ cemetery, and the dead were regularly carried off the mountain.”

Unusual in Ukraine: UPA number and tipi

A review of the most original hotels in our country was made for us by the head of the Igotoua tourism project Tatyana Smirnova

History in the palm of your hand

The History Hotel in Polyanitsa fully lives up to its name: it is dedicated to different stages of the development of our state, the concept provided for the recreation of the brightest pages of its history. Each hotel room is decorated according to a specific important period. So, for example, there are numbers “Trypillia”, “Scythia”, “Kievan Rus”, “Princely”, “Cossacks”, “UPA”.

In wigwams

Indian village (Krasnik, Ivano-Frankivsk region) is a real North American Indian camp for those who since childhood dreamed of living in real tipi tents, like in the movies. Moreover, guests can enjoy canoeing, fishing and American lunches, barbecue over an open fire and sit on primitive wooden furniture - stumps.

In Indian village you can feel like a real Indian

Transparent and vintage

Art Hotel has occupied a niche of sophistication and extravagance in the Ukrainian hotel business. It is located in a building built at the end of the 19th century, where one of the city's first cinemas once functioned. Films are available to guests to this day, just like jazz concerts in the improvisation restaurant. The rooms are located in the attic and have transparent ceilings, so it is always light here during the day and romantic at night.

In ethno style

Unusual hotels in Ukraine can be found even in the middle of nowhere: for example, the unique rural green tourism complex “Frumushika-Nova” is located right in the steppes Odessa region. People come here to take a break from the noisy city and annoying infrastructure, and also to live in eco-huts, like the Bessarabian villagers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and get acquainted with ethnographic museum on the territory of the complex (like the capital's "Pirogov"). There are stylized houses of a hunter, huntsman, fisherman, and also a sheep farm and natural sheep cheeses (they say one of the largest in Europe).

The Frumushika-Nova complex has cozy little houses. Photo frumushika.com

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Nowadays, people travel more and more actively and tourism is developing at a rapid pace. More and more hotels are appearing: expensive and cheaper, better and worse, the most ordinary and... Now we will talk about the most extraordinary, amazing and unusual hotels and hostels in the world. I hope that this will be at least interesting, and at most, in the near future, one of you will stay at one of the listed hotels and tell us about your impressions! So, we present to your attention the hot ten most unusual hotels in the world according to Friends!

Hostel on the plane.

So, the first on our list is the Swedish Jumbo Hostel. It is located near Stockholm's Arlanda Airport and is a Boeing 747-200 converted into a hostel. It is considered a special luxury to spend the night in a deluxe room with a panoramic view, located on the site of the pilot's cabin. So, if you have dreamed all your life of having a good night's sleep on a plane, then this is your chance - come to Jumbo Hostel.





Underwater hotel

After spending the night in a Boeing 747, we will sink to the bottom of the sea! On this moment There are several underwater hotels in the world, but the very first of them was opened in 1986 in Florida and is called Jules Undersea Lodge.

Jules differs from its competitors in its miniature size and fairly affordable accommodation (a night will cost about $40 per person). Even celebrities have stayed at the hotel, such as Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. But if you decide to spend the night here, remember - check-in is carried out in scuba gear!

Hotel made from garbage

The original hotel was built by German eco-artist Hans Schulte as part of the Save project the Beach! So the hotel Coronita Save the Beach was erected in a matter of hours in the center of Madrid.To do this, it was necessary to collect 12 tons of garbage on the beaches of Italy, Spain and France, which served as the main component of the hotel’s decor.True, this waste disposal facility did not last long - only 4 days, but there was a lot of noise and thus the project justified its goal - it attracted people's attention to the problem of environmental pollution.Later, similar hotels received guests in other European cities, for example in Rome. By the way, you could stay in hotels made from garbage for free by winning accommodation through a lottery organized by the organizers of the project via Twitter and Facebook.

1. Hotel Coronita Save the Beach in Madrid.


2. Colorful decor made from garbage.


3. Hotel room.



5. Save the Beach Hotel in Rome.


Hostel-prison

There are several in Stockholm unusual hostels. One of them is the prison hostel Långholmen Hostel! Moreover, it is located in the building of a real former prison, closed in 1975. The only difference is that the key to your cell is with you, and not with the evil overseer, and the room smells of freshness and cleanliness. The hostel has been awarded several times for its excellent service.





Hotel in concrete pipes

This spartan hotel, which goes by the name Das Park Hotel, located within the park Austrian city Ottensheim. The idea to install rooms in water pipes came to the mind of the architect Andreas Schraus. Of course, there is no heating in such concrete “bungalows” and therefore the hotel accepts its guests only in the warm season - from May to October. But the “rooms” have a large bed, linens, electricity and a safe for valuables.

In addition, not only the hotel itself is unusual, but also its financial policy - here each guest decides for himself how much to pay for his stay!




Ice Hotel

If you really wanted real winter, then there is nothing better than staying at a hotel whose name speaks for itself - ICEHOTEL. It is located in Sweden, in the town of Jukkasjärvi, just 200 km away. from the Arctic Circle and is almost entirely made of ice, which is “mined” from the Tournai River.

What can you do while staying at the ICEHOTEL? Well, of course, look at northern lights, learn to sculpt ice sculptures, drink cocktails from ice glasses in an ice bar, and also, there is a chance of catching pneumonia (God forbid, of course)! Due to the latter circumstance, it is not recommended to stay here more than 1-2 nights...

The most interesting thing is that after working through the “hot” winter season, the hotel melts away, only to be reborn the next year.So hurry up: the 24th season at the ICEHOTEL is already open!







Capsule hotel

Capsule hotels now hardly surprise anyone. They are starting to appear everywhere, including in Russia! But the concept of capsule hotels got its start in Japan, of course! As you know, the Japanese have land that is worth its weight in gold, so hotel accommodation is by no means cheap. But in 1979, a man named Kisho Kurakawa figured out how to make the cost of accommodation cheaper in the city of Osaka and the first capsule hotel was opened.

Now the largest such hotel in the world is the Green Plaza Hotel Shinjuku. It is located in Tokyo, of course. There are as many as 660 1x2x1 capsules equipped here. However, Plaza Shinjuku is not the only capsule hotel in the Japanese capital. So, if you're in Tokyo, stay at one of the capsule hotels, if only for fun!





Crazy Hotel

Agree that a hotel called Crazy House simply by definition cannot be ordinary! This is true. The Vietnamese Madhouse looks more like some bizarre work of Mother Nature than a man-made object.

It is located in Vietnamese resort town Dalat and designed by female architect Hang Viet Nga. We must pay tribute to her imagination and determination to implement such an extraordinary project in socialist Vietnam. Gaudí’s work probably helped her with her ideas, and her close relationship with the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam helped her with her implementation. Regardless, Crazy House is one of the most impressive and unusual hotels in the world.






Hotel in the trees

Truly Sweden is a champion in the number of unusual hotels! So the hotel in the trees is also located in Sweden, in the very north, in the thicket pine forest on the banks of the Lul River. The hotel consists of several separate bungalow rooms located at a height of 4-6 meters above the ground. Each home has an individual design created by the best designers in Scandinavia.

Only here you can stay in a mirror cube, a UFO or a bird's nest... There are several more original buildings in the pipeline. In general, the Tree Hotel is an ideal place to meditate in the lap of unspoiled Swedish nature and watch the northern lights from “your” UFO or nest (a matter of taste).

 

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