Posted by Jackie Hewett on Tue 9th September 2008 at 02:39 AM, Filed in EuropeUnusual Hotels

Are you planning a visit to the lovely clean, unspoilt city of Copenhagen, and are looking for a Hotel? Look no further, book a room at the Fox Hotel and you will be in for a treat!

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The Fox Hotel was created by Volkswagen to promote a car! All the company’s innovative experience has come to the fore in the design of this unique residence.

The sixty one rooms were designed by 21 artists, encompassing everything from strict graphic design to wacky comical styles, Japanese Manga, amazing street art, flowers, fantasy, dreamy creatures, way out designs, secret vaults…and much, much more.
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Posted by Jackie Hewett on Sat 6th September 2008 at 03:42 AM, Filed in South AmericaUnusual Hotels

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!
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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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Posted by Jackie Hewett on Mon 1st September 2008 at 08:45 AM, Filed in South AmericaUnusual Hotels

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.
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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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Posted by Jackie Hewett on Sun 24th August 2008 at 01:02 AM, Filed in South AmericaUnusual Hotels

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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Posted by Jackie Hewett on Sat 16th August 2008 at 01:21 AM, Filed in EuropeUnusual Hotels

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!

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