Weird and Wacky Hotels

There are plenty of truly unusual and wacky hotels around the world. You can sleep in enormous wine casks, watch the fish swim by from your undersea hotel, enjoy giraffes peaking their heads in your bedroom window, try out an ice hotel, sleep in a concrete tree house or even a crashed jet plane. The only one I have visited is ‘Crazy House’, a concrete treehouse in Vietnam. It was even more unusual in that it seemed to be more of a tourist attraction than a hotel.

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• Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida. Learn to dive and become certified while you stay at this undersea lodge. Rates are $475 per night with meals and diving.
• Giraffe Manor near Nairobi, Kenya. Enjoy breakfast with a giraffe at the table. Rates are $360 pp per night with all meals and a vehicle for watching wildlife.
• De Vrouwe van Stavoren in Stavoren, The Netherlands. Sleep in a wine cask with all the usual amenities. A wine cask room will set two people back 109 Euros per night.
• The Ice Hotel near Quebec City, Canada. Stay in a hotel that melts every spring. Choose from themed rooms made of carved ice, some with fireplaces. You will feel like you’re in a cocoon. Contact them for rates which vary with the package. Arctic sleeping bags provided.
• Poseidon Undersea Resort neat Fiji. Be one of the first to sleep on a luxury expedition submarine. It will cost you $30,000 for one week with you and your better half and you’ll be learning to pilot your own mini sub. Opening anyday now!
• Gamirasu Cave Hotel in the Cappadocia area of Turkey. Stay in a cave made up of tufa and used by monks until recently. Rates start at 75 Euros per room.
• Hotel Costa Verde near Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica. Spend the night on the beach in a Boeing 727 suite. Rates are $400-$500 per night. The location is beside one Costa Rica’s best parks.
• Hang Nga Guest House & Art Gallery in Dalat, Vietnam. The daughter of one of Ho Chi Minh’s ex-presidents studied architecture in Russia and came up with a concrete treehouse with winding staircases, themed bedrooms and human sized spider webs. More tourist attraction than hotel room.

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