Do you enjoy holidays ‘on the move’? But nowadays the idea of pitching your tent or pulling a caravan too much hard work– or do you find hours cooped up in a coach for days on end tedious….plus having to unpack each night in a different hotel, and being up at the crack of dawn each morning to pile back onto the coach exhausting. Yet you still like the idea of exploring a county by road. Well, here’s a wonderful and novel concept – a hotel that travels!
The Exploranter is a Hotel on wheels, operating in Brazil, Chile Argentina and the Andes - with routes going into Patagonia, Atacma, Patanai plus some other less traveled places.
Trips vary from 1 week to 22 days. They can be customised for private parties with themes such as horseback riding, hot air ballooning, off road rally and many more, just use you imagination and contact the company for an experience of a lifetime!
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Ever wanted to stay in a fairy tale style castle? Well the Magic Mountain Hotel in Huilo Huilo (sounds like Willow willow), Southern Chile, provides you with the perfect opportunity.
This unique hotel with a waterfall cascading down one side, and the rooms looking out into the amazing setting, with views of eagles and condors flying by is truly magical. It’s located in the in Huilo Huilo reserve, which covers sixty thousand hectares and has the snow capped Chocuenco Volcano in its confines, as well as fantastic waterfalls and cold mountain streams.
The building is like no other, no right angles to be seen; in fact it’s shaped like a volcano, complete with every comfort – yet furnished like a tree house. The 13 rooms are around the central core and are accessed by a wood and stone spiral staircase. Plus additional cabins are available in the grounds.
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This has to be one of the most unusual hotels I have heard of. Set high up in the Andes, because of the excellent clear skies and lack of light pollution, lies the ElquiDomos Hotel. It was designed by a famous Chilean architect Nicolas Fones and opened in February 2005.
It is the only astronomic hotel in the southern hemisphere (apparently there are 7 astronomic themed hotels worldwide) and has 7 rooms built as two storey domes with living rooms downstairs and the bedrooms on the upper floor with detachable roofs to enhance the star gazing experience. Each dome is equipped with its own telescope (of course), and large wooden terrace and astronomic literature.
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Whilst there are many underwater concept hotels that may or may not come to fruition here is one (albeit one room only) that actually exists.
It is a concept by the artist Mikael Genberg and consists of a floating red wooden room, beneath which is suspended a ‘human aquarium’ (where the bed is situated). The bedroom floats three meters below the surface of Lake Malaren in Sweden. Guests are taken by inflatable boat 1km into the middle of the lake where the room is situated, and left alone, unless they have ordered the ‘delux’ stay whereby they will get a later visit bringing their supper.
Whilst the room does have a heater and is closed during the winter months I am sure it could prove a little chilly sometimes so take plenty of layers…..oh & book well ahead!
This isn’t a reality….yet! It is a concept / project by the French designer Jean Marie Massaud (of the Massaud Studio in partnership with ONERA – the centre for French aerospace research) and is allegedly planned for completion in 2020 – don’t hold your breath!
The concept is designed to carry some 40 paying (probably very rich) passengers / guests and 15 staff in reportedly between 20 and 60 bedrooms. It is also planned to have a spa, a gym, a library and obviously dining (restaurant) and drinking (bar) facilities. All of this will be provided in a couple of glass storeys hanging under a large (helium filled?) blimp providing unique panoramic views over the world from a height of 18,000 feet.
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