10 of the Worlds Most Unusual Hotels Golden

10 of the World's Most Unusual Hotels

Golden Crown Levin Iglut, Levi, Finland • Marvel at the northern lights in one of 18 glass igloos that accommodate couples or families. Located six miles from the resort town of Levi, each igloo has a kitchenette stocked with breakfast sets, a full bath, and a double bed with adjustable headrests for optimal aurora viewing. Windows are insulated and heated to keep them frosting, and curtains provide privacy. Enjoy the fireplace in the small, rustic lodge, and brave freezing temperatures to take in the stars from the outdoor hot tub

Book and Bed Tokyo, Japan • Book and Bed Tokyo looks like a used bookstore until guests slide open a bookshelf and reveal a cozy nook with a simple bed, reading light, and electrical outlet. Unabashedly bare-bones and not for the claustrophobic, 30 stacked cubbies, each big enough for one person, are available behind the shelves filled with 3, 000 titles in Japanese and English. Bathrooms are shared, and couches in the area outside of the bookshelves provide a communal reading and gathering area

hotel Costa Verde Costa Rica • Costa Rica’s Hotel Costa Verde’s slogan is “Still More Monkeys Than People …, ” but its other claim to fame is that guests can spend the night in an upcycled 1965 Boeing 727 that’s been turned into a two-bedroom luxury guesthouse. While the distinctive fuselage shape is intact, the interior is completely paneled with local teak. Windows offer jungle and ocean views throughout the plane, which rests on 50 -foot-tall supports, and covered patios extend over the wings. The bedrooms have air-conditioning, and each has its own bathroom. Have dinner in the kitchenette, or enjoy local fare and drinks

Treehouse, Peru • Sleep to the sounds of the Peruvian Amazon rain forest at the headwater of the Amazon. Guests can only reach Treehouse Lodge Resort via an hour-long boat ride from Iquitos, after which they’ll climb 34 to 67 feet to one of eight circular tree houses above the forest canopy. The thatch-roof structures average 18 feet in diameter, and a railing, curtains, and optional mosquito netting are the only things separating you from the rain forest. A bathroom with a cold-water shower is located below the main floor. Suspended walkways from each tree house lead to a central commons tree house, where included Peruvian-inspired gourmet meals are served. Squirrel monkeys, macaws, sloths, and other rain forest denizens frequent the 345 -acre eco-resort. Guests have a personal guide, and daily excursions include river dolphinwatching and visiting indigenous villages

Palacio , Bolivia • • You’ve perhaps heard of ice hotels, but Bolivia’s Palacio de Sal has taken the concept one step further by using salt from the famous Salar de Uyuni salt flats to create a luxury hotel in the middle of the Bolivian desert. Nearly everything in the 48, 500 square-foot hotel is made out of salt, including the building and furniture. Each of the 30 simple but stylish rooms with wooden flooring has a private tiled bath and is climate controlled. Bed platforms and armchairs in the common area are salt, but plush blankets and pillows make for a comfortable stay. The dining room’s windows frame a panoramic view of the salt flats, and meals include locally sourced llama and lamb and the house specialty, salt chicken. Beyond the uniqueness of this remote hotel, the draw for the area is the Zen-like expanse of the largest salt flats in the world and its star-filled sky at night.

Dog Bark Park Inn – Cottonwood, Idaho, USA • this hotel is something like you have surely never seen before. It is in the shape of a giant beagle. The beagle is 15 feet wide and more than 30 feet tall. He also has a name, Sweet Willy, and in his stomach, you can find a double room, and his chin has a loft room. Even the interiors of this hotel include dog pictures, rugs, statuses, and so on. So, if you are a dog lover, you might as well love staying in this hotel.

ICEHOTEL • The ICEHOTEL is well, made of ice. Most of the furniture of this hotel, including the beds are made of ice and snow. The temperature that you will be living in is -5 degrees Celsius. It is not only the fact that this hotel is made out of ice that makes it popular, it is more so because it melts every year and is then built all over again. Each November many architects come and rebuild the rooms, the chapel, and the bar using hundreds of tons of ice.

Propeller Island City Lodge • this hotel is wacky and strange. It has 27 rooms and each of them is completely odd and different. For example, the interior of one room is that of a prison cell, while another room is made out of mirrors. If this is not enough for you, you can choose to stay in the creepiest room of the hotel, which is a crypt room, where you get to sleep in a coffin.

Palacio Del Sal – Bolivia • This hotel in Bolivia is the sole one in the world that is made using salt. Yes, you read the right, the ceilings, the walls, and even the floors are all salt. In fact, some of the furniture in this hotel is also made of salt. Many, many salt blocks have been used to create this hotel. It is situated in Salar de Uyuni, the biggest salt flat in the whole world. If you ever choose to stay here you will learn an important rule that you are not supposed to lick the salt off the wall, just to prevent it from degrading.

Marmara Antalya • This hotel in Turkey has 214 rooms. You can see the city of Antalya, the Taurus Mountains, and the Mediterranean Sea from the balconies of this beautiful hotel. Now, what makes this hotel earn a place in this list? Well, this hotel actually revolves. The loft with its 24 rooms floats in a pool which has 478 tons of water. There are six electric motors that help it turn a complete 360 degree rotation many a time per day. So, what you get to enjoy is a breathtakingly beautiful and changing view if you chose to stay here. The floating loft part of this hotel already has won the Worldwide Hospitality Award in 2007 for the Most Innovative Concept in luxury hotels.

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