Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Top 10 Most Unusual Hotels

Last week for Travel Tuesday I had a boat load of fun researching the most wild and crazy types of accommodations there are for travelers ... from capsules to caves and even one underwater hotel. I posted the trivia below ... and realized there is one REALLY COOL one I forgot ... Treehouses! I can't think of a better way to bring out your inner kid than sleeping in a treehouse! Check it out along with the other unusual and weird places to rest your head at night.


#1) Top 10 Unusual Hotels: Ever consider sleeping underground in a cave ? Try this ...


Dessert Cave Hotel


#2) Top10 Unusual Hotels: If you're not claustrophobic, how about a Capsule Hotel.

Capsule Hotel


#3) Top 10 Unusual Hotels: If you're ok with being chilly, try an Ice Hotel!


Hotel de Glace



#4) Top 10 Unusual Hotels: Hotels famous for landscaping? Ever try a Garden Hotel?


Garden Hotels


#5) Top 10 Unusual Hotels: Have you ever slept underwater? A hotel where you need scuba gear to enter:


Jules Underwater Hotel


#6) Top 10 Unusual Hotels: Library Hotel? Yes indeed. Each floor is themed after a category of the Dewey Decimal System
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Library Hotel


#7) Top 10 Unusual Hotels: Here's 1 built on an artificial island & structured in the shape of a boat's sail.

Burj Al-Arab



#8) Top 10 Unusual Hotels: Take a look at this retired 1936 Ocean Liner that became a hotel.

The Queen Mary



#9) Top 10 Unusual Hotels: How about staying in a posh room ... that used to be a jail cell?

The Liberty Hotel


#10) Top 10 Unusual Hotels: While its not quite a hotel, its definitely the best Green/Eco lodging in Central FL: My Inn!

Tremain Street Cottages


BONUS: For all the Tarzan types ... Treehouse Hotels!

Cedar Creek Treehouse
and Treehouse Out 'n About I think I'll take the Serendipi-tree.

Be sure to take a look on Twitter today to see what other unusual trivia I find!


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3 comments:

  1. Unique idea for a post. Informative, too!

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  2. WHAT a great idea! I love learning about all these quirky hotels and am dying, in fact, to stay in one of the cave hotels in Cappadochia, in central Turkey. Great piece! - Liz Barrett

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  3. @civilizedtravel ... aren't they fun? I try and do a fact finding treasure hunt ever Travel Tuesday at @Travelblggr on Twitter. Check it out!

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