Caves, Tents, Old Planes, Holes In The Ground. The World's Most Offbeat Hotels!
Tokyo, Japan is home to tiny, long cubicles just big enough for bedding, a small television, and a guest. These units are supposed to be quite a bargain which in Tokyo probably means only twice the price you were hoping. The price includes luggage storage. That special slab at the morgue feeling is free.
Entire resorts seem to have been carved into the rock cliffsides of Göreme, Cappadocia, Turkey.
Yet inside the cave rooms in Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey you will find plush accomodations lacking only windows and natural light.
The Hang Nga Guesthouse in Dalat, Vietnam has become known much more commonly as the Crazy House Hotel. Of course this is the country known for Civet Cat Coffee!
Kyrgyzstan and other places in Central Asia offer the opportunity to stay in a genuine yurt. Which is like paying money to sleep in a permanent tent.
Beautiful sphere shaped treehouses dot the old growth forests of Vancouver, Canada and can be taken for the night. For a closer look at these beautiful accomodations read our post.
Harlingen, The Netherlands has a huge crane on the harbor that has rental rooms in the control booth area.
Sleek modern appointments and a heck of a view of the harbor traffic!
A forest hut that could pass for a hole in the ground is offered for a very low price in Kolarbyn, Sweden. Food supplies are extra, the kitchen is a fire outside. Or you could just make your own "hotel" in an hour or two.
The world famous Icehotel. That's right, a hotel made out of blocks of ice, can be found in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. This one is tough on the pocketbook and the guest. The high prices of several hundred dollars per night are matched by the below freezing temperature in the rooms. Heavy duty sleeping bags are required and bathroom breaks are no fun!
Beautiful Icehotel even features an amazing chapel.
Jumbo Hostel in Stockholm, Switzerland is located inside a refurbished 747 jet aircraft. You can even rent a room in the former cockpit.
If a fancy jumbo style jet is not to your liking than Waitomo, New Zealand offers lodging in a plain old cargo plane.
Survival pods were designed for oil rig workers to drop from the rigs in the event of some dire emergency. Some old ones float at The Hague, The Netherlands and make great floating rooms.
Perhaps the most bare of all the accomadations would be the Null Stern Hotel in Switzerland. Minimal furnishings in a bare bones former fallout shelter. If war breaks out the night you are there you can stop envying all those folks lounging in the pool at the Hotel Intercontinental.
Oxford Castle once housed an immense prison but now has been transformed into a hotel and shopping mall.
Enjoy a night of prison accomodations, but in style, like you run the cell block or something!
Bolivia offers the Salt Hotel built entirely of you know what.
I don't mean to sound negative but of all the hotels here this one does the least for me. I can feel my skin drying and cracking already!
Swedne has more than it's share of odd places to stay. Utter Inn is a hotel room that is actually towed out into the center of Lake Malaren. The room is half submerged and offers you a fancy red topside hut and a room that is actually below water level. Sleep with the fishes, but in a good way. Unless it springs a leak!
Austria seems to have surpassed even the tiny morgue-like slots in Japan and Sweden's hole in the ground. Roomier than the morgue slot, plusher than the hut, but now you will always know that you paid to spend the night at Das Park Hotel, constructed entirely of concrete sewer pipe!
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The Jumbo Hostel is in Stockholm, Sweden and yes, the flight deck has become the honeymoon suite (with room number 747).
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