10 unique hotels in the world that make a lasting impression
Travels / / December 19, 2019
Price: from $ 170 per adult
Location: Davos (Switzerland) Engelberg (Switzerland), Gstaad (Switzerland), Shtokhorn (Switzerland), Zermatt (Switzerland), the Zugspitze (Germany), Grandvalira (Andorra)
His first needle Adrian Gunther (Adrian Günter) already built in the distant 1996. No business idea he had not hatched, the Swiss only want to spend the night among the snowy mountain landscapes of his homeland. But the idea has found great interest among friends, and wanting to spend the night in an igloo. Today, enterprising Adrian has been a family hotel complex village type. Their doors are open to visitors from late December to early snow melt in April.
Of course, these hotels you can find in France, and in Slovenia, but Iglu-Dorf tries to surprise his audience with extraordinary interiors of snow figures. To do this, Adrian invites artists from around the world, and those using ice axes, electric saws and shovels create a unique decor in the hotel.
Price: from € 1500 per couple
Location: Jukkasjarvi (Sweden)
Uniqueness, luxury, high cost. This is how you can describe one of the wonders of Sweden - Jukkasjärvi Icehotel. The hotel does not just become a hero gear Discovery Channel and National Geographic thanks to its unique ice theme. In it even the glasses are made of ice, not to mention the walls, ceilings, furniture and jewelry!
For the past 25 seasons Icehotel melts and repeatedly re-built, completely changing its furniture. For finishing rooms meet the biggest names in design. Every year captious jury selects only the 50 most interesting ideas, and artists put them into reality. The indoor temperature is kept in the region of -5 ° C, and overnight guests are invited in sleeping bags, covered with reindeer skins.
Icehotel has a church with a chapel. Many parishioners marry and baptize their children here during the Christmas holidays. It is important to note that the geographical location of the hotel allows its guests to enjoy the delights of wonderful light natural phenomena - the Northern Lights.
Price: $ 115 for four
Location: Limon (Costa Rica)
60 squares at a height of 25 meters above the ground. No, it's not one-bedroom apartment on the ninth floor. This tree house or, as they call themselves the creators of the observatory. Only here you will be able to wake up from the morning concert of howler monkeys, and fall asleep to soothing chatter of parrots. Duplex observatory powered by solar energy and collects rainwater shower. In addition to sanitary facilities on the ground floor there are couches and hammocks to enjoy views of the Caribbean, and the second (protected mosquito net) - two double beds. Nature Observatorio offers a unique experience of immersion in the flora and fauna of the wild jungle.
Price: from $ 160 per person
Location: 30 km from Parksville (Canada)
Hotel Free Spirit Spheres consists of three spherical houses, placed among the trees at a height of about 4 meters, and separate facilities. The outer diameter of the balls is 3.2 meters, so you can see inside of each room a minimum set of furniture and a bed big enough for two people. independent fastening system to the next three standing trees provides maximum security, and do the houses are very strong: their design and production is based on the principles of shipbuilding. Each of the rooms has its own name, the source of power and heat. But the main advantage of Free Spirit Spheres are concentrated in the inimitable atmosphere created by light shaking balls surrounded by forest.
Price: $ 1500 per night for two people
Location: Pemba Island (Tanzania)
White sand, clear water and bright sun - it is the usual array of a good beach hotel. Here, The Manta Resort could not do anything to stand out among their own kind, if he did not offer a truly unique opportunity - rest on a comfortable bed in the water column environment with its inhabitants. Floating structure has three tiers: the top - for admiring the sky, the average - for a normal pastime, ground - to observe the marine life. At nightfall, the underwater window of the room lit, what attracts her exotic fish, octopus and squid. Perhaps sleep surrounded by multi-colored eye is not very comfortable, but certainly memorable.
Price: from $ 120 per person
Location: 250 km from Cape Town (South Africa)
South Africa is well-known to fans of untouched nature the diversity of its national parks and reserves. In one of them is just located hotel Kagga Kamma.
Quiet location away from the city offers its visitors to plunge into the arms of the flora and fauna of the Cederberg mountain range. One of the unique services of the hotel - the room under the open sky - it is an opportunity to relax in a luxurious bed, surrounded by rocks and plants. To choose from and the hotel offers the more familiar home: wooden cabin, hut or cave.
Price: from $ 250 depending on season
Location: Puntarenas (Costa Rica)
Bright thinking and unconventional approach brought back to life an old rusting Boeing 727, and with it brought worldwide fame hotel Costa Verde. Looking from a distance, you might think that the plane crashed in the jungle, but it is necessary to come closer - your eyes open all the beauty and originality of a luxury hotel room. Inside the fuselage there are two bedrooms, kitchen, shower room and dining area. Interior decoration and furniture made from Indonesian teak wood and is hand-carved. But all this pales before the gloss amazing views from the outdoor terrace, located on the aircraft wings.
Price: $ 170 per couple
Location: Pangipuli (Chile)
Huilo-Huilo - private nature reserve in southern Chile, among other things, is known as the habitat of small deer in the world and how wonderful the property's location to the magical atmosphere - Magic Mountain Hotel. Legend attributes the hotel magical powers and the ability to perform the most secret desires. So whether it's actually - check is difficult enough, but certainly not possible to remain indifferent, looking at the kind of enchanting mountains covered with thick vegetation, a waterfall on top. The hotel blends harmoniously into the surrounding forest ecosystem not only for its exterior but also the continuation of the "green" theme, used in the decoration of the interior space.
Price: from $ 150 depending on season
Location: Payguano (Chile)
300 days of clear sky in the year - whether it is a paradise for astronomers and amateurs to look into the depths of the night sky? Elqui Domos hotel complex includes several wooden houses with a glass roof for up to three people, a number of globular tent with a transparent dome on the four berths and a small observatory with two telescopes on powerful electronic companies Schmidt-Cassegrain. Each room is designed and equipped with the appropriate equipment so that campers were able to study the celestial bodies, lying on his bed. Romance and a reason to think about the eternal rife here.
Price: from € 1, depending on the guest's satisfaction
Location: Bottrop (Germany)
Hotel Das Park Hotel is unique for at least the fact that in it the guests pay for the room as much as they see fit. This non-profit project promotes hospitality and involves a minimum of amenities. Under rooms massive drainpipes, which has gone in to a double bed, a lamp and a small shelf. Guests are invited to enjoy their own hygiene and showers, toilets and catering facilities are located within walking distance from the rooms. But as a rule, even such Spartan conditions like visitors, and they leave the support of the movement is very good money.
It is likely that only one room in the proposed hotels will seem expensive, and this without regard to flight and travel expenses. But the world is full of alternatives that may be you can afford, so we want to remind you of 15 coolest hostelsLocated in Europe. Choose, travel, impressive!
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