The Best Unusual Hotels Around the World
Mongolian Yurts in Rural England - Sussex
Family run Barefoot Yurts offer a unique Sussex self catering holiday. Stay in traditional Mongolian Yurts nestled on the edge of woodland with stunning views over the Brede Valley.
West Usk Lighthouse – South Wales
The West Usk Lighthouse is a cosy bed and breakfast situated near the City of Newport, Gwent, at the junction of the Severn and the Usk Estuaries, overlooking the Bristol Channel.
Become a passenger on a cargo ship carrying banana's from the caribbean or bulk carriers from the Far East. Cargo ships never carry more than 12 passengers.
The Capsule Inn Akihabara, Tokyo
A high-rise honeycomb of sleeping pods in one of Tokyo’s most wired-up, hyperactive neighbourhoods. For a rock-bottom 4,000 yen, they’ll provide you with one of 169 pods (140 for men, 29 for women), each measuring a whopping 1 x 1 x 2 metres.
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The Onion Store - Romsey, Hampshire
3 stores or rooms that are stunningly converted ancient
buildings - The Apple Store is the smallest but possibly most seductive of the buildings. This one-room-rustic-wonder has a silver birch bed growing right up to the bark
covered ceiling. The basin stands on mammoth tree trunks with the spliced chestnut skirted bath tucked in behind. Outside your bedroom door, in a totally enclosed pebble garden, sits a hot tub for
your pleasure only, providing blissful ecstasy on moonlit starry nights. At the end of your totally enclosed pebble garden a Moroccan tent, decked out with cushions and palms, beckons.
Communist Plane Becomes Luxury Hotel
A Dutch businessman has bought the ageing Ilyushin aircraft, previously used by the leaders of communist East Germany and has turned it into, Honecker Hotel, a luxury hotel in Holland.
Ice Hotel - Jukkasjärvi, Swedish Lapland
Stay in a hotel made completely of ice, located in a small village 200km inside the Arctic Circle.
Hotel Costa Verde is proud to present its newest lodgings. The fully outfitted, meticulously detailed, two bedroom, Boeing 727 fuselage suite. They have refurbished a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe, which in its prior life shuttled globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines (Colombia).
Travellers use iStopOver for Home Rentals to find accommodation in someone’s home as an alternative to paying high hotel rates. Usually priced well below average hotel rooms, renting a room on iStopOver offers real value. It gives you the opportunity to “live like a local”. Twitter @istopover
The windmill itself has been converted into a guesthouse of immense character, charm and comfort. It is also available for private house parties and weddings, should you wish to entertain your guests in a unique and magical setting.
Designed by art college graduate Andreas Strauss. Organized into clusters of threes, the artistic accommodation nestles in the green fields beside the Danube River. The hotel currently works on an honor system - you leave behind however much you think is fair for the duration of your stay.
Featherdown Farms - UK, France & Netherlands
Located in some of the most beautiful farmland and rural areas in Britain, the Feather Down Farms create a unique experience. Every Feather Down Farm tent is incredibly spacious and comfortable, with a traditional interior reflecting the honest rural life of years gone by on working farms, where the farmer and their family are passionate guardians of the countryside.
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