Weird car numbers. The most unusual hotels in the world
We enjoy traveling to explore and discover new and unfamiliar territories. But it happens that the hotel room where you stay is no less impressive than the sights of the city outside its walls. Beautiful view, exquisite service, magnificent interior design, ensure a luxurious stay. Rooms sometimes leave such a strong impression that you think: “Oh my God, I would really like to live here!”.
We have found 20 hotel rooms around the world that are sure to make an amazing impression.
1. Singita Sweni, Kruger National Park, South Africa
Singita Sweni Hotel is located in the middle of national park Kruger, along the Hwanetsi River, and it is surrounded on all sides by 15,000 hectares of magnificent virgin nature. The luxurious suites will make you feel like an explorer who has escaped the noisy world and hide in this little piece of paradise.
A night here will cost you, as a rule, $1369.
2. Jade Mountain Resort, Santa Lucia
Santa Lucia is the southwestern part of the Caribbean coast, where one of the most prestigious resorts in the world. This hotel was designed by an extravagant architect who built the building entirely from organic materials. The mesmerizing resort will literally leave you breathless.
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3. Loisaba Wilderness, Kenya
Do you love safari? Exploring the African continent is a unique and delightful experience, during which you can meet amazing animals and see the incredible beauty of nature. A room at Luciba Hotel allows you to enjoy the open air and desert panoramas as you wake up and fall asleep. African skies and stars are the best set of luxury suites (usually with walls and ceilings) in this amazing place.
One night will cost you $420 and up.
4. Chromata Hotel, Santorini
People who have visited the island of Santorini (Greece) at least once fall in love with it at first sight. Hotel Chromata is located at the very top of the inhabited island. It offers elegant rooms with outdoor balconies offering stunning views of the bay. You won't want to leave this place.
For a night in a luxurious Chromata hotel with a view of the caldera, you will have to pay from $ 283 per day and more.
5. Poseidon Undersea Resorts, Fiji
Poseidon resorts will open up completely new depths of your imagination. All the walls of the hotel rooms are made of glass, behind which you can see a huge amount of water and a variety of marine life. It's just an amazing experience.
Services: $1,500 (per person/night); $30,000 (for two / week); $3 million (reserve of the entire island).
6. Hotel Seven, Paris
Who doesn't know secret agent 007? The creators of this wonderful hotel came up with the idea: to make an exquisite suite in the style of the famous Bond, James Bond. For €447, you can wear the famous 007 costumes and get into the role of a spy, as all the walls of the room illustrate the most famous scenes from the films. Do you love Bond? Luxury suits? Paris? This hotel is just for you!
7. Hotel Antumalal, Chile
Do you like wooden apartments with incredible panoramic views? Antumalal Hotel offers comfortable and quirky rooms with terraces. In each room, beautiful fireplaces give warmth and comfort. Handmade furniture, natural materials and a calm atmosphere will help you relax and feel truly rested.
Prices start at $275 per night.
8. Ladera Resort, Santa Lucia
Perched at an altitude of 1,000 feet, the Ladera resort gives you an amazing experience. The rooms literally make you never want to leave home. National and cultural features of the island of Santa Lucia trowels are embodied in the interior of the hotel. Luxurious and comfortable design and first-class service will help you relax while admiring the panoramic view caribbean.
For a room you have to pay from $574 per night.
9. Southern Ocean Lodge, Kangaroo Island, Australia
This modern hotel, created in a minimalist style with hints of hi-tech, pleasantly surprises visitors not with its internal design, but with its magnificent location. The huge windows of your room, which is located on the rocky coastline, overlook the ocean.
For this pleasure you need to pay from $1050 and more.
10. Tree House (Costa Rica Tree House), Costa Rica
This resort will wake up the child inside each of us. The hotel is built on high stilts and is surrounded by lush greenery of the forest. There are no windows and advanced technologies, and the furniture is made entirely of wood.
Room rates start at $300.
11. Safari Lodge, Tongabezi, Victoria Falls, Zambia
Rooms at this hotel are unique in their simplicity, abundance of woodwork and wide views of the Zambezi River, which you can watch from your own terrace when you wake up in the morning.
For such a room you will have to pay from $751 per person per night.
12. The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra, India
Like all five-star hotels in India, The Oberoi Amarvilas impresses with its luxurious decoration, an abundance of gold, pastel and marble, luxurious massive furniture and fresh flowers. But it has a distinctive feature: from the balcony of your room you will see the world-famous monument of India - the Taj Mahal, which hundreds of thousands of tourists seek to visit every year. In any room of this hotel you can feel like an Indian Shah.
Prices start at $640.
13. El Otro Lado Hotel, Portoelo, Panama
love exotic countries? Explore different cultures? This place is just for you. Amid the rich and colorful Caribbean culture, you will find the amazing El Otro Lado Hotel. This is a place where exceptional and personalized service is combined with a very homely environment. Wake up to the sound of birds in one of these idyllic jungle huts, feeling right at home, enjoying the exquisite décor and delicious cuisine.
Such a room will cost you from $590 per day for one person.
14. Hacienda Uayamon, Mexico
Empire-style interiors, wood-beamed ceilings and, of course, Mayan influences await you at this outstanding hotel. In addition, there is a beautiful summer terrace where you can have breakfast or just relax in nature. Get to know the Mayan heritage and enjoy a wide range of services in this hotel.
Prices start at $264 per night.
15. Adelphi Hotel, Melbourne
This is a place where art meets the extraordinary. Here you can awaken your senses and enjoy an avant-garde escape from the monotonous city streets to a haven of modern culture. In addition to the unusual design of the rooms, the hotel offers a delightful restaurant serving signature desserts and colorful cocktails, while candles and pillows will create a more comfortable and relaxing atmosphere for you.
This pleasure will cost you from 275 Australian dollars ($214) per night.
16. Alto Atacama Desert Lodge & Spa, San Pedro
This resort is thoroughly saturated with the purest naturalism. The unusual location of the hotel, among the terracotta colored ridges of the desert, will provide everyone with the most unique experience. With its open living rooms (without walls), the hotel seeks to open the eyes of the traveler, to give the opportunity to look around, become part of nature and return home a renewed person.
Prices start at $770.
17. Iniala Beach House, Thailand, Phuket
This is not just a hotel, this is a separate beach house in the middle of the resort, which will show you the true meaning of luxury and modern design. This hotel is right on the coast great views on the ocean, in addition to accommodation, offers a wide range of services and programs.
Room rates - from $1000 per night.
18. Bambu Indah, Ubud, Bali
If you're looking for something unique, Bambu Indah is the hotel for you. The tourist complex offers a number of non-standard rooms, each with its own unusual interior, and all this for a relatively low price– from $95 per person per day.
19. Hotel Daniel, Vienna
This Austrian hotel features revolutionary architecture and contemporary interior design. Experienced tourists Those who want something new and unusual can rent a real American trailer for themselves (with all luxury amenities).
Prices start from €97 per night.
20. Harlingen Lighthouse, Netherlands
Rare, unusual and extraordinary. The Harlingen Lighthouse Hotel is a real lighthouse that has been completely refurbished into a modern and unusual hotel. While enjoying the luxurious setting and ocean view, don't forget to honk the ships to show you a safe route to the harbor on a foggy night.
The cost of living will cost you from €300 per night.
A little tip: if you ever decide to stay in one of these hotels, book rooms very early. Most often, there are no vacancies for six months in advance.
An overnight stay at a hotel can be an adventure in itself. Well, how not to be impressed, waking up in a glass capsule on a sheer cliff or admiring the northern lights through the transparent ceiling of a cozy igloo. We chose ten of the most unusual accommodations for those who are tired of the standard Bed & Breakfast.
Boutique hotel from shipping containers
Upper Gudauri, Georgia
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In the mountains of Georgia, at an altitude of more than 2 thousand meters, not so long ago a boutique hotel was built from sea cargo containers. It is located in Upper Gudauri, about 120 kilometers from Tbilisi. Just two hours by car and you are in the most luxurious cargo container in the world.
Architects Sandro Ramishvili and Irakli Eristavi did their best to ensure that Quadrum was not damaged during the construction of the hotel. environment. That is why the hotel repeats the local landscape, cascading down the mountain slope. The hotel's terraces offer panoramic views of the Caucasus Mountains.
Quadrum has standard single and double rooms, luxury, as well as designed for big company, adjoining rooms. The lift is located a five minute walk from the hotel.
igloo
Finland, Saariselka
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We think it is difficult to find a more suitable home for admiring the northern lights. Modern igloos throughout the hotel are made of durable thermal glass, through which everything is perfectly visible. Each cabin has a double bed and a bathroom.
You can spend the night in warm igloos throughout the entire season of the northern lights, that is, from about August 20 until the end of April. An overnight stay under a glass dome will cost € 400 per day.
Hotel on the border of Israel and Palestine, opened by Banksy
Bethlehem
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Banksy, as you know, does not do anything for nothing. And the opening of a hotel on the border between Israel and Palestine became another social statement of the artist. The purpose of the message is to destroy the stereotypes that have formed in Israeli society towards the Palestinians.
The building is located in Bethlehem, next to the concrete wall that was erected on the border. The hotel is called Walled-off Hotel - "walled hotel". It has 10 rooms, and the windows face a concrete wall. Each room receives no more than 25 minutes of sunlight per day. The walls of some rooms are decorated with Banksy graffiti. The building also houses a small museum dedicated to the wall that separates Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Hotel in a cargo crane
Copenhagen, Denmark
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The sea is calling, but is it rocking on the waves? Hotel The Krane can be called a good alternative to all sorts of boat trips Overnight. It is located in the port in the north of Copenhagen. The hotel is quite stylish, cozy and very expensive - the cost of one night in a crane is € 2500 per day.
The property was converted from a real old cargo crane that was built in 1944. The tower crane cabin is located at a height of 15 meters. There is a separate bedroom for two, a spa area with a jacuzzi, a sauna, a meeting room and several terraces - in general, everything for a comfortable stay.
Hotel in a former prison
Roermond, The Netherlands
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In the Netherlands, over the past ten years, the number of criminals in the country has fallen to the lowest level in Europe - 57 prisoners per 100,000 people. Therefore, they decided to be original and convert some empty prisons into hotels.
And so the House Arrest Hotel in Roermond appeared. This is a former prison in 1863, the cells of which were turned into chic suites. Here you can even rent an entire compartment to host a party of up to 200 people. The hotel offers The Jailer, The Lawyer, The Director and The Judge suites. Of course, the hotel has Wi-Fi access, TVs, a gourmet restaurant, a fitness center and a sauna. The price per room starts from € 112 per night.
Hotel in a glass capsule on a cliff
Peru
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If you are afraid that your heart will go to your heels and never return, friendly advice - better not stick your head here. The hotel, consisting of transparent capsules, is located at a distance of 122 meters above the ground. There are two ways to get there: climb the steep mountainside or go down the zipline. The hike itself takes about an hour and a half.
The hotel consists of only four capsules. One of them is a public space where the living room and dining room are located. Three more capsules are rooms, each of which is equipped with a miniature toilet. Each room offers breathtaking views of the Peruvian Andes. The hotel does not have a shower, so visitors are advised to bring at least one liter of water and wet wipes with them. But the owners of the hotel assure that these are trifles against the backdrop of the opportunity to spend the night right on the slopes of the Peruvian mountains.
“Hanging” in such a capsule will cost about € 430 per night. This amount includes everything that a traveler may need.
Wooden owl house
Region of Bordeaux, France
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Not really a hotel, but a very original property located in the Bordeaux region in southwestern France. Here you can spend the night in charming wooden houses in the form of forest owls. And most importantly, it's free.
These houses were built to encourage people to get out of the stuffy cities and be in nature. The Les Guetteurs ("watchers") houses were designed and produced by contemporary art studio Zébra3 as part of the "Vaults" campaign.
The plywood buildings have three floors. Inside are round white beds, and from the windows you can admire scenic views nearby wetlands. You can stay here only during the warm season.
bubble house
Ireland
In the heart of the Irish forest on the lake, at the Finn Lough estate, you can stay in a real transparent bubble. Inside each such bubble-house, the surrounding nature is viewed from all sides, at 180 degrees. During the day you will enjoy the forest beauties here, and at night you will watch the starry sky.
In seven bubble houses, guests are offered comfort and luxury accommodation. The quirky rooms are furnished with designer furniture and some even have a bathtub and a coffee machine. The cost of an overnight stay in a transparent room starts from € 230.
Mirror cube on a tree
Sweden, Harads
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Another hotel for privacy in nature is located in Sweden. Travelers are offered to stay in a mirror cube, which, as if by magic, rests on a tree. The cube reflects everything that surrounds it: forest, meadow and sky. That is why the construction of 4x4x4 m in size can be immediately overlooked. And so that birds do not crash into an unusual house, the cube is pasted over with infrared film. Birds, unlike people, see it.
The entire interior of this room is made of birch plywood. In addition to a bedroom for two, inside there is a living room, a bathroom and even a rooftop terrace. On one of the trees there is a separate sauna for eight people. The mirror cube awaits travelers willing to shell out €500 per night (breakfast included).
Blink Custom Temporary Hotel
Around the world
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The British company Black Tomato came up with and launched a unique Blink service for those who want comfort even in the desert. Travelers can spend the night anywhere on the planet (within the law, of course) in a specially built individual temporary hotel. The hotel is designed according to the wishes and tastes of the client. Black Tomato promises that a luxurious five-star tent hotel will be installed anywhere and stay as long as necessary. Travelers choose the type of accommodation themselves. It can be a tent, a dome, a sphere, a yurt, a tropical villa or a lodge.
Prices for such a vacation, to put it mildly, are decent. They vary by location and length of stay. For example, for three nights in Morocco you will pay about $ 10 thousand, and for a four-day trip to Bolivia you will have to fork off $ 29 thousand per person.
You need to order the service 3-5 months before the expected date of vacation, so that the company's specialists have time to develop and build an exclusive dream hotel.
Photos - official pages of hotels
Incredible Facts
Travel lovers will surely be familiar with the annoying feeling of hotels that are often overly conventionally decorated. At the same time, the words of the English thinker Chesterton are recalled: "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
Honoring the original design ideas, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the most unusual, interesting hotel numbers around the world.
Room 306 at the Arte Luise Kunsthotel, Berlin, Germany
The idea of this issue is based on the comics of the artist Kehl (KEHL).
Unusual hotel room
Au Vieux Panier Hotel Room, Marseille, France
This is a room half covered in graffiti - the creation of the artist Tilt.
Weird hotel room
Room 121 at the Fox Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark
Australian-style indoor camping.
Hotel room with pets
Suite at the Manor Hotel, Nairobi City, Kenya
Rothschild's disappearing giraffes appear in this issue. They stick their heads through open windows without fear to feast on mango pieces.
Original hotel room
Mine Room at Sala Silvermine Hotel, Westmanland District, Sweden
Despite the eerie view of the dark cave, this room is always provided with fresh air. The room is located in an old Swedish silver mine at a depth of 152 m, which can only be reached by an elevator shaft.
Weird hotel room
Champs-Elysées Suite at Maison Martin Margiela Hotel, Paris, France
The room is designed in a surreal style.
Non-standard hotel room
Hotel room Grand Hotel De Kromme Raake, Enrum city, Netherlands
Unusual style of the Dutch hotel.
Hotel room for golfers
A room at the Propeller Island City Lodge, Berlin, Germany
This unusual room features a lockable sleeping bed. The same lodge serves as a mini-golf course. The artist Lars Stroschen came up with the same composition.
Cave hotel room
Room 137 at the San Luis Obispo, California, USA
Feel like a caveman.
Best hotel room
Suite at Poseidon Undersea Resort, Mystery Island, Fiji
This number is designed for wealthy clients. A night spent here costs $30,000. Possibly the most luxurious room in the world with its own coral garden. You can even feed the fish yourself with the help of a special control.
Nice hotel room
A room at Kakslauttanen Igloo Village, Lapland, Finland
The hotel is only open from December to April. Glass ceilings in the room allow you to sleep under the magical light of the Northern Lights at a comfortable room temperature.
Blue hotel room
Blue room at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
The highlight of the room is that in it, if desired, visitors can take their own digital photos and videos against a blue background.
Ice hotel room
Ice Suite at Hotel de Glace, Quebec City, Canada
The hotel is open from December to April. Here, visitors spend the night in arctic sleeping bags to keep warm because the room is made entirely of snow and ice.
Hotel with capsule
Number in The hotel Capsule Hotel, The Hague, The Netherlands
The originality of such numbers lies in the fact that they can be moored wherever there is water.
Chocolate hotel room
Room at La Reserve Hotel, Paris, France
Chocolate number inspired by Karl Lagerfeld.
Hotel with sphere room
Number on Qualicum Beach, Canada
This tree number will awaken your creative energy and spiritual connection with nature.
The most unusual room in the hotel
Room 409 in Hotel Fox, city of Copenhagen, Denmark
The issue was created by Swiss illustrator Benjamin Güdel based on the novel "Heidi" by Johann Spiri.
Desert hotel room
Loisaba hotel room, Laikipia area, Kenya
Bed room on wheels with a unique design. It is proposed to relax, including with a view of the Kenyan waterfall.
Rooms at the James Bond Hotel
Room at the Seven Hotel, Paris, France
The room is equipped with a Turkish steam shower, an electronic safe and a complete collection of Bond films.
Hotel room with nature view
Hix Island House Hotel Room, Vieques Island, Puerto Rico
A truly heavenly number that will merge you with nature together.
In case of lack of thrills, extreme pretentiousness of tastes or banal fatigue from the standart format Buro 24/7 offers you a selection of themed hotel accommodation options
Surprisingly, but recent years ten the hospitality industry (as well as life in general) seems to have reached the apogee of the variety of offers. There would be money and desire - any whim is no longer a problem. For a fee, whole recipe books with already selected ingredients for dishes are delivered to your home - all that remains is to throw the set into the oven and enjoy dinner in half an hour; for ridiculous money today you will be admitted to the sidelines of any, even the most closed or secret, institution; and the service market is bursting with exotic offers.
"Arms race" did not bypass and hotel business: in an attempt to move away from the standard design and luxurious (but so boring) rooms, developers have lost their feet, coming up with various creative stylization concepts. Buro 24/7 brings to your attention a selection of five of the most interesting (and even very funny), in our opinion, suites around the world.
Bond, James Bond
The owners of the Parisian hotel Seven Hotel offer their guests the opportunity to stay in the room of a real secret agent 007. The James Bond Suite is filled with "weapons" (even in the form of a table lamp), hidden compartments, gangster (you can't call it otherwise) furniture and the spirit of adventure. So park your Aston Martin and get up and take a shower before your next assignment.
Planes first
The Jumbo Stay hotel in Sweden (it would be more correct to even call it a hostel - only two stars, but how many impressions) knows no end to visitors. Still, because for a relatively small cost you will be accommodated in a real cockpit. True, you need to book such a suite in advance: there are a huge number of people who want to wake up in the cockpit of a real Boeing 747.
Recreation of superheroes
Spend the night in your own chambers famous person in a bat costume is possible on the island of Taiwan. One of the local hotels decided to attract customers with an unusual offer - a suite stylized as the house of the superhero Batman. In addition, the owners of the hotel do not promise a costume, but they are ready to show the Batmobile (for some reason sticking out of the wall).
Gangs of Las Vegas
"Our Gangster Themed Hotel Room is gonna kill ya!" - such a threatening inscription flaunts on the front page of one of the hotels in Las Vegas. Many visitors to this many-sided city note that life flies there as if in an instant. If you stay at this hotel, you can feel it to the fullest, because you will get to the real crime scene - the brutal massacre of one of the local gangsters.
toy country
In one of the US states, there is a whole hotel dedicated to the beloved children's LEGO constructor - Legoland California Resort. Once here, the guest will be able to plunge into the fabulous world of pirates for the night, medieval castles or cowboy adventures created by skilled LEGO designers. An excellent option for families with children.
"The only star is you," the hotel's website slogan says flatteringly. In fact, the hotel in the singular is not only a star, but also a room. The hotel is more of a concept project than a place where you can spend your holidays. There are no rooms in the hotel, only a double bed, several shelves with nightlights and tiles on the floor. No doors, no walls, no ceiling. According to the authors, this is how you can feel the fullness of the Swiss Alps - left alone with them.
The cost of a night is about 13,000 rubles.
Poseidon Undersea Resort, Fiji
Popular
Despite the fact that the creators of the hotel have been building it for 13 years, now they are already looking for a new location for the second hotel. And all because there are too many people who want to experience for themselves what it is like to be a real mermaid and live under water. 70% of the room is a panoramic window made of transparent acrylic, through which you can observe the diverse marine life.
The cost of the minimum offer (7 days, 6 nights) is about one million rubles per person. This includes transfer by the hotel's private jet.
The Library Hotel ("Library Hotel"), New York, USA
Although the idea of a hotel with books is not so new, the New York library hotel is created for true connoisseurs and book lovers. Each of the 10 floors is dedicated to one of the categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification: Literature, Technology, Art…
Each of the 60 rooms contains a thematic selection of books according to the floor. Of course, the hotel has a writer's corner, a poetry garden and a reading room.
The cost is 32,500 rubles. per night
Free Spirit Spheres, Vancouver Island, Canada
Wooden balls - the hotel rooms of this hotel - hang among the branches in the heart of the jungle on Vancouver Island. Each of these balls is handcrafted from cedar, silver spruce and fiberglass. Rooms in unusual hotel there are only three, and they can only be reached by ropes or hanging ladders. There are restrictions on the total weight of guests, and each of the spheres has a name: Eva, Melody and Erin. The most comfortable of them, Erin, has a double bed, a tiny refrigerator, a breakfast bar and a sofa. You can admire the starry sky through the skylight. You can wash at a nearby campsite.
The cost of one night in Erin is 14,300 rubles.
, Saariselka, Finland
Hotel guests live in magnificent glass igloos, through the transparent walls of which one can observe Northern Lights and a cold sky full of stars. The hotel is open only during the northern lights period, that is, from the third week of August until the end of April. This chalet features a seating area, fireplace, private sauna and kitchenware. The staff can arrange snowmobile trips, as well as reindeer and husky safaris.
The cost of the room is about 15,000 rubles. per night.
The Dog Bark Park Inn, Idaho, USA
Visitors will live in the world's largest beagle. Needless to say, this B&B hotel opens its doors to both guests and their pets? It was made by a woodworking couple in 1997. In the hotel you can buy wooden carved souvenirs and drink coffee for only $10.
The cost of the room is 8,000 rubles.