Plan the Ultimate Offbeat Vacation at One of These Unusual Hotels
If a regular hotel room just doesn't cut it for you and you're looking to try something a little different, consider a stay in one of these offbeat hotels. Some are made of ice, while others are in historic caves or decommissioned planes. You can bet a stay in one of these unusual places will definitely be out of the ordinary! Here are the craziest places to stay in the world.
You'll inspire FOMO among your friends with stays in these unique hotels. Rooms at the Shipwreck Lodge (shown here) resemble abandoned ships along the dunes of Namibia's Skeleton Coast — it was named one of Time's 100 Greatest Places of 2018.
In Sweden, the soon-to-open Arctic Bath is a floating circular hotel centered around wellness. Canada's Fogo Island Inn and NYC's TWA Hotel, in the futuristic-looking former TWA terminal at JFK (to open in spring 2019), are other examples.
A fun travel trend is shipping containers being repurposed into funky lodgings — definitely unique places to spend the night! Flophouze (shown here) in Round Top, Texas, has six eco-chic shipping containers, while the soon-to-open Tiny Urban Escapes in Indianapolis has three upscale semi-glass shipping containers. The Contain Hotel in the Czech Republic and Hotel WineBox in Chile are a few others.
Wine lovers will get a kick out of sleeping in a wine barrel. Portugal's Quinta da Pacheca hotel (shown here), located on a winery in the Duoro Valley, offers 10 stylish suites made out of massive oak barrels, complete with decks and skylights.
Other hotels to offer this unique lodging type include the Hotel de Vrouwe van Stavoren in the Netherlands and Lindenwirt Hotel in Germany.
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Housed on a former gravel quarry, Fabriken Furillen (shown here) is an industrial-chic hideaway in in Gotland, Sweden. The lunar-looking setting houses 18 minimalist rooms, outfitted with animal throws and wood-burning stoves. In Thailand, the Nhapha Khao Yai Resort features ultra modern rooms amid a former marble quarry, and a massive hotel on a former quarry in Shanghai will open soon.
If you want to sleep with the fishes (but wake up the next morning), you can stay overnight in a hotel that offers underwater suites, such as the super luxurious Atlantis, the Palm in Dubai, which has floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking its massive aquarium.
Other resorts with underwater suites include Singapore's Resort World Sentosa, Zanzibar's Manta Resort (shown), and the soon-to-debut dazzling Muraka villa below the Indian Ocean in the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island resort, which you can read about here.
At Chile's EcoCamp Patagonia in Torres del Paine National Park, you can stay in one of its unique dome lodgings. Each of the freestanding domed domiciles runs off a mix of hydraulic and solar energy and features a low-emission stove and king or twin beds. Finland's Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort (shown here) has futuristic-looking igloos with domed glass roofs, so you can keep a Northern Lights watch from your very own (heated) lodging.
You've seen the photos. Capsule hotels are where you basically have just enough room to lie down in a pod-like structure. These hostel-like lodgings started in the 1970s to cater to Japanese businessmen, and the concept has spread. Some of the top ones include Nine Hours (shown here) in Kyoto, The Pod in Singapore, and the just-opened Pangea Pod Hotel in Whistler, Canada. Suffice it to say, if you're claustrophobic, these are not the places for you!
If you haven't yet outgrown your backyard treehouse, here's your chance to sleep in an actual treehouse. The Treehotel (shown here) in Harads, Sweden, has six one-of-a-kind treehouse-style rooms, many with ultra modern designs.
You'll also find treehouse rooms at the Bangkok Tree House in Thailand, including one with no walls or ceiling, called the View With a Room, and at The Mohicans, a rustic cabin-and-treehouse hideaway in Glenmont, Ohio, which has hosted celebrities like Matthew McConaughey.
On the edge of Sweden's Stockholm Arlanda Airport, a retired 747 Boeing jet has been transformed into the Jumbo Stay Hostel (shown here), with rooms in the fuselage and cockpit. In Costa Rica's Manuel Antonio National Park, a Boeing 727 is now a two-bedroom suite called the 727 Fuselage Home, and at New Zealand's Woodlyn Park, you can bed down in a former supply plane.
For a winter experience you won't soon forget, spend the night in an ice hotel. These frozen igloos feature hotel rooms, restaurants, bars, and chapels, and they're typically erected in December (and melt by early spring). A few popular ones include Quebec's H?tel de Glace, Sweden's ICEHOTEL, and Finland's SnowCastle (shown here).
Make like the Flintstones and spend the night in a cave! Turkey's Cappadocia region is known throughout the world for its extensive cave systems, and there are several hotels, such as Cappadocia Cave Suites (shown here) and Kelebek Special Cave Hotel, constructed in and around these rock formations. Many of these subterranean rooms feature ancient archways and natural wall recesses.
Ever been curious about what it's like to spend a night in the slammer? You can do just that at the HI Ottawa Jail (shown here) in Canada. At this hostel, original stone walls and iron doors remain, and some of its "cells" are located in the former solitary confinement unit.
For a more upscale jail hotel experience, consider Boston's Liberty Hotel and England's Malmaison Oxford, both former-jails-turned-trendy-boutiques.
Plan the Ultimate Offbeat Vacation at One of These Unusual Hotels
If a regular hotel room just doesn't cut it for you and you're looking to try something a little different, consider a stay in one of these offbeat hotels. Some are made of ice, while others are in historic caves or decommissioned planes. You can bet a stay in one of these unusual places will definitely be out of the ordinary! Here are the craziest places to stay in the world.
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