Since I'm starting my new study 'International Tourism Management' in a few weeks,
and simply because it was great fun trying to find all these hotels, here's a list of some of the world's weirdest/strangest looking hotels, which are very unique and very creatively built!
The Icehotel, located in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden:
How cool does this entrance look by night?! And the view on the northern lights, beautiful..
The hotel, including the chairs and beds, is constructed from snow and ice blocks. The structure remains below freezing, around -5°C.
A night at this hotel would cost you about 400 (!) euros a night, including breakfast.
Dog Bark Park Inn, located in Idaho, USA:
A beagle-themed B&B that sleeps up to four guests at a time. Guests enter the body of the giant dog through a balcony. The dog's head houses a loft bedroom and an alcove within the muzzle, with a toilet disguised as a fire hydrant.
The larger beagle, named 'Sweet Willy', is 30 feet tall (9m), 34 feet long (10m), and 14 feet(4m) wide. It's made of wood (the owners are chain-saw artists) and painted stucco, with flaps of carpeting for the ears.
To stay in this unique B&B, costs are $98 a night, including breakfast.
Tianzi Hotel, located in China:
Built in 2000, this 10-story building depicts Fu, Lu and Shou - Chinese gods- symbolizing good fortune, prosperity and logevity.
The Tianzi Hotel is the largest Image hotel in the world. Shou, on the left, is holding a peach that contains a suite. Enter the hotel through his right foot.
It's not that different on the inside from any other hotel (except for the pandas..), but the way it's been built, and the look of the hotel, with those 3 men and the fact that he's symbolically holding a hotelsuite in his hand is very cool in my opinion!
Karostas Cietums, located in Liepaja, Latvia:
It's a former military prison built in 1905, Karostas housed revolutionaires, enemies of the people from Stalin's time, and more recently, the KGB.
"A good hotel has got to be safe, clean, and have good staff," Bush once said. Karostas breaks that fundamental rule of hospitality, inviting its guests to "live the part of a prisoner on a dismal night"—by sleeping on grungy prison bunks, eating prison food and taking abuse from prison guards.
Very freaky.
Hotel de Vrouwe van Stavoren, Netherlands
The De Vrouwe has remodeled wine caskets into four two-person rooms with standard amenities and an attached bathroom and sitting room.
The 14,500-liter wooden caskets still smell like the Beaujolais wine they once stored. The rooms are small but airtight and strong.
The 14,500-liter wooden caskets still smell like the Beaujolais wine they once stored. The rooms are small but airtight and strong.
