Our top list today will be of interest, first of all, to those who strive to get the most impressions on vacation. The rating of the most unusual hotels in the world can amaze the imagination of even a sophisticated guest.
Who said that the most interesting things are the sights, beaches and excursions, and that there can be nothing interesting in the hotel? Any of the unusual hotels is worthy of the closest attention.
1. African Hotel, Kenya
The unique estate was built in 1932 by David Duncan, who chose a place for it not far from the capital of Kenya, Nairobi. In the 60s of the last century, the estate changed several owners until in 1974 it was bought by a hereditary nobleman from an ancient Scottish family, Jock Leslie-Melville, who settled here with his wife, an American citizen, Betty.
This philanthropist is famous for having founded the African Foundation for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW). At first, Jock and Betty got two baby Rothschild giraffes, and over the entire existence of the estate, several generations of these beautiful and noble animals grew up on its territory.
The idea of hosting tourists who wanted to stay on the estate for a while was brought to life by Betty after her husband's death, and the Giraffe Manor hotel is currently a constant success among those travelling to Africa.
There are six rooms in total, so it never gets crowded, and the interior of the house is decorated in the style of Scottish hunting lodges.
Many tourists come here not for the first time with children of different ages and stay for a week. Therefore, in the morning, while feeding the animals from the hands through the open windows, the entire old estate is filled with delighted cries and the ringing laughter of children.
Kenya is famous for its diverse protected flora and fauna, and here you can enjoy not only communication with the endangered species of giraffe. You should visit the picturesque lakes Nakuru and Bogoria, the surrounding areas of which are home to a large population of pink flamingos.
2. Ice Hotel, Sweden
The Ice Guesthouse is built annually 200 km from the Arctic Circle. Each year, different designers and architects work on the creation of the frosty apartments. Therefore, the appearance of the "Icehotel" is never repeated. Only the temperature inside the rooms is the same - minus 5-10 degrees. Guests sleep in sleeping bags lined with fur. Few people come to the coldest hotel in the world for more than one night. Fortunately, there is a traditional "warm" hotel next door.
3. Capsule, Japan
A distinctive feature of the capsule hotel is the minimal area of the rooms. The room itself is a capsule made of particularly durable plastic. Amenities include: radio, TV, alarm clock, wireless Internet and a bed. You can swim in the public area. The main advantages of "Capsule Inn Akihabara" are its economy and location in the very center of the Japanese capital.
4. Afloat, Peru
The floating hotel offers guests 12 luxury suites. It is not a cruise ship, but it drifts along the banks of the Amazon River, allowing guests to enjoy the picturesque landscapes of Peru. It has everything necessary for the comfort of vacationers - a bar, a restaurant and shops.
5. Old Hotel, Japan
The oldest hotel in the world has been operating for 13 centuries. All these years it has been owned by one single family. The rooms are furnished rather modestly, although the cost of accommodation is about 350 dollars per night.
6. Number on the square, Germany
The living area of "Eh Hausel" is 53 square meters. The width of the hotel room is only 2.5 meters. At the same time, the hotel is wildly popular. You have to book several months in advance. Vacationers have a spa area, a fireplace and luxurious furnishings at their disposal.
7. Transparent Project by Pierre-Stéphane Dumas, France
The room in this unusual hotel is a semi-transparent sphere. Inside there is a comfortable bed, a bathroom, a music center. Meals are included in the price of accommodation. One night in the most transparent hostel in the world will cost 130 Euros.
8. High Mountain Hotel, Nepal
The building is located at an altitude of 3,880 meters above sea level. Guests are guaranteed the most breathtaking views of Everest. Those who wish can be transported to the famous mountain peak by helicopter.
9. House in the wild, Australia
Gives guests a unique opportunity to get closer to the surrounding luxurious nature. On the territory of the hotel complex there are small villas that use exclusively environmentally friendly energy. The menu of vacationers includes only organic products and water from springs untouched by civilization.
10. Underwater, Fiji
The most unusual underwater hotel in the world. It offers 24 underwater capsule rooms and 48 bungalows on the shore. The capsules are surrounded by picturesque coral reefs at a depth of 15 meters. The base for accommodation was a former research station.
11. Ice Hotel, Canada
The Ice Hotel is a landmark of Canada and is considered one of the best five-star hotels in the world, built only from ice. The furniture, very comfortable, according to tourists, is also made of ice.
There is a bar, a cinema, two art galleries and, of course, comfortable rooms with all the amenities, as well as a heated toilet and an outdoor Jacuzzi. Only you have to sleep in sleeping bags with fur.
The hotel first opened its doors in January 2001 and is located near Quebec City, next to Montmorency Falls. More than 500,000 tourists visit it annually.
The area of the complex is small - only three thousand square meters, and every year houses with new interiors are built on it. About 4.5 thousand tons of snow and 250 tons of ice are used to build this original hotel.
It is clear that the equipment in it is real, not ice, and the doors are made of wood, and the fireplace burns with a scorching flame, but the bar has glasses made of stable ice that do not melt even from the heat of the barbecue. However, guests prefer paper cups with wine and coffee.
Every year in mid-January, a grand opening of the newly built hotel is held with a magnificent fireworks display, fakir performances and orchestral music. The boarding house is open for only three months and disappears naturally, warmed by the rays of the warm spring sun in April.
The Canadians borrowed the idea for the unusual structure called Hotel de Glace from the Swedes, where a similar ice palace, only four times larger, has long been welcoming visitors and residents of the country.
12. Magic Hotel, Chile
Magic Mountain Hotel is a beautiful hotel in the Huilo Huilo Nature Reserve in Chile. It looks like a volcano, but water flows from its top. The outside is covered with moss and resembles a gnome or hobbit house. A rope bridge leads to the entrance. It has all the amenities, as well as a sauna, restaurant, mini golf and other entertainment.
13. Salty Vacation, Bolivia
This architectural wonder is located near the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia. It is built from salt blocks, and the furniture and sculptures are also made of salt. The air here is filled with microelements and is good for your health.
14.Boarding house, Oxford
Malmaison Castle in Oxford used to be a prison, but now it is a luxury boarding house. The rooms are former prisoners' cells. But now they provide maximum comfort: there is a shower, TV, a bar.
15. Three Towers, Singapore
One of the most luxurious hotels in the world. It has an unusual design: three 200-meter-high towers carry a huge terrace with gardens and swimming pools. The main pool of this structure seems to have no boundaries and drops into the abyss, and to swim in it, you need to gather up courage.
16. Mirror Rooms, Berlin
This hotel is the embodiment of the crazy ideas of the author Lars Stroschen in Berlin. Each room has a unique design: a completely mirrored room, a prison cell, an upside-down room, flying cage beds, a coffin bed, a bed with a guillotine. In a word, welcome!
17. In a wine barrel, Netherlands
This lovely hotel is located in a picturesque place near the old port in the Netherlands. Its exotic rooms are made from huge wine barrels with a capacity of up to 14.5 thousand liters, in which French wine was previously aged. Inside, there is enough space for necessary furniture, a shower and a living room.
18. Northern Lights in the forest, Finland
An ideal place for observing the stars and the northern lights. The original rooms are designed as cozy igloos, which are equipped with modern technology. Through the transparent roof you can watch the unearthly landscapes of Lapland all night long.
19. Hotel among the trees, Sweden
This is not a trivial tree house, but a unique art object located in a Swedish forest. Five parts of the hotel - the "Red Cone", "Mirror Cube", "Bird's Nest", "Cabin" and "Flying Saucer" are suspended between trees at a distance of 50 meters from each other. It creates a feeling of flight, and the windows offer a beautiful view.
20. Lighthouse Hotel, Scotland
If you are traveling to Great Britain, then you should pay attention to the unusual hotel-lighthouse, which is located on Cape Corswall in Scotland. This lighthouse was erected in 1815, and it was preceded by a rather interesting story. The thing is that before the lighthouse was built on this site, robbers often made fires, thereby attracting ships, which, naturally, they robbed. Later, it was decided to stop this disgrace and a real lighthouse was built on the cape, which has retained its appearance unchanged to this day and is still an operating structure.
21. Underwater Hotel, Tanzania
This would be an ordinary seaside resort hotel, if not for one room - a floating house with an underwater room. Underwater Room is located 250 m from the shore. On the deck of an exotic design, you can sunbathe with a cocktail in hand during the day or look at the stars at night, also with a cocktail (all inclusive). Huge windows of the underwater bedroom provide a 360-degree view: you can watch the life of reef fish, squid and octopuses, knowing that you can swim with them at any time. This hotel is a project of the Swedish company Genberg Underwater Hotels, which is engaged in the creation of underwater apartments all over the world.
22. Crazy House in Vietnam
Hang Nga Guesthouse, or as it is more commonly called, the "Crazy House", resembles a huge, bizarre tree. Not a single corner - all the walls are rounded, the stairs twist into a spiral or are thrown from one building to another. It is a mixture of fantasies in the style of Gaudi, "Alice in Wonderland" and Russian folk tales. At night, guests sleep in the rooms, and during the day, tourists "travel" along the tree.
23. Ecohotel, Russia
One of the highest hotels in the world (3912 m) is located on the southern slope of Elbrus. Guest modules resemble spaceship capsules. Bedrooms are designed for 12-18 people, there is a wardroom. In the technical room there are comfortable toilets and a shower. All energy comes from solar panels.
24. Burrows, New Zealand
Situated amidst green farmland, the motel offers four types of accommodation: a 1918 train car, a Vietnam War fighter jet, a World War II patrol boat and, finally, underground, in “hobby holes” (pictured). All rooms are equipped with a kitchen, toilet and shower.
25. Historic Hotel, France
A historical monument, considered by many in France to be a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture, was converted into a luxury hotel in its ninth century. The massive walls with watchtowers are surrounded by a moat, and the windows overlook a French garden and the Beaujolais vineyards. The interiors, with wall frescoes and antique furniture, were designed by the best fashion houses in France.
26. Dog, USA
The 10-meter beagle dog made of plywood and plasterboard is called Cutie Willie. The rooms are located in her stomach. The authors of the project are a married couple of artists and wood carvers.
27. Caves, Spain
In the 15th century, the Moors hid in these caves from the Spanish. Today, there are 23 cozy rooms. Regardless of the time of year, the temperature inside is comfortable: 18–20 °C.
28. Hotel Museum, Türkiye
The Cappadocia Cave Hotel is essentially a “living museum.” Each of the 30 rooms is furnished with valuable, and in some cases priceless, antiques from the Hittite, Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman eras.
29. Tree Capsule, Canada
Those lucky enough to spend a couple of nights at this hotel call it, at the very least, a cradle for birds. There are only three guest rooms. These are wooden spheres suspended from the trees. The Eva room is designed for guests weighing up to 137 kg. Erin and Melody are spacious apartments with a double bed and a loft bed. Each sphere is equipped with a refrigerator and built-in speakers so you can stock up on snacks and hang out among the trees listening to music. The amenities - in the form of composting and traditional toilets, as well as a shower and sauna - are outside. Guests are delighted.
30. Transparent hotel among trees, Sweden
The mirror cube, perched on the trees in the forest wilderness, reflects everything that surrounds it: the forest wilderness, the meadow and the sky, so the human eye will not immediately notice the 4x4x4 m structure. And to prevent birds from crashing into it, the cube is “wrapped” in infrared film, which birds, unlike people, can see. The entire interior is made of birch plywood. In addition to a bedroom for two, there is a living room, a bathroom and even a roof terrace. The hotel also has other amazing apartments: in the form of a UFO, a bird's nest or a dragonfly. For the convenience of guests, a sauna designed for eight has been built in one of the trees.
31. Hotel in an Egg, France
The "shelter of pleasure" for Mont Blanc conquerors is located at an altitude of 3835 m. The futuristic egg-shaped building with four floors and 120 beds is equipped according to the highest environmental standards.
32. Tuba, Mexico
The hotel's 20 rooms, an hour's drive from Mexico City, are built inside sewer pipes. Each room has electricity, a window with curtains and storage under the bed.
33. On the plane Sweden
Boeing 747-212B (Jumbo Jet), which belonged to a Swedish company that went bankrupt in 2002, was converted into a hostel in 2008 and placed at the entrance to Stockholm Arlanda Airport. The interior was completely dismantled, the cabin was disinfected. It was equipped with 29 rooms. The area of a standard room is 6 m2. The most expensive and spacious is located in the cockpit. There is even a toilet there. For other guests, amenities are in the corridor. The cockpit offers a panoramic view of the airport, and the regular rooms have a view of the runway. Each room has a TV, so you can follow the flight schedule. The hotel has a cafe and a souvenir shop.
34. Railway carriage, UK
The hotel owns four restored railway carriages, allowing you to travel through different times and styles, starting from the 19th century.
35. Royal Prison, UK
The hotel is located in the building of a former royal prison of the 11th century, which was bought by the Malmaison hotel chain in 2005. The bars, barbed wire fences and general furnishings still remind us of the prison past of the establishment. However, those who end up here do not want to run away, except perhaps grabbing exclusive toiletries from the comfortable "cells". The rooms are furnished with designer furniture, and in the place of the former office there is a restaurant and a beer bar.
36. Car number, Germany
Hotel for car lovers. This quirky hotel in Stuttgart is a car fanatic's paradise. Its design features car parts and pieces from the most prestigious and famous models. There are different versions of the 70s Cadillac, Mercedes-Benz car washes, a Morris Minor garage and much more.
The modern 4-star guesthouse is located on the premises of the garage and exhibition complex in the town of Böblingen (6 kilometers from Stuttgart), an exclusive automobile museum, organized on the site of the first airport of Baden-Württemberg. The hotel, impressive with its original design, offers 24-hour free Internet access.
V8 Hotel is one of the best places in Germany for car lovers. All rooms of the unusual hotel are decorated in a bright manner, and vintage cars and new models are exhibited on the territory of 20,000 sq. m.
The interiors of the rooms demonstrate the typical mid-century Bauhaus design, diluted with original automobile motifs. The rooms have satellite TV, a kettle, coffee maker and a work desk. The former airport building houses shops, boutiques, cafes and restaurants.
37. Water Tower, Germany
The modern hotel is built into a water tower built in the 19th century in the Sternschanze park. To justify the functional purpose of the building, the hotel has a sauna complex and a hydromassage shower. The 16 floors of the tower have 226 rooms with views of the city or the park. The suite on the top floor offers a 360-degree view of Hamburg.
38. Mill, Germany
The windmill, built in the early 18th century, has survived many things, including the filming of The Conspirator with Elizabeth Taylor in 1949 and a flood in 1953. The current owners have converted it into a hotel. There are comfortable rooms not only in the mill itself, but also in the former stables and dovecote.
