While traveling is always a pleasure, you have to choose your accommodations carefully. Are you on the lookout for something more luxurious? Searching for a place that fits your budget?
Or — do you want your accommodation itself to be the entire experience? If so, look no further than these utterly mind blowing destinations.
These are some of the wackiest hotels in the world, spanning the continents and sometimes even showing up in the most remote locations possible.
Expected the unexpected, as from their architecture to their creature comforts, there’s truly nothing ordinary to be found in these topsy-turvy places.
1. V8 Hotel, Germany
Car shows are a whole lot of fun. Looking at all those rare and antique models can fill you with a sudden urge to sneak on inside and take them out for a spin. However, they probably haven’t inspired you to want to suddenly catch a snooze. Pull over – there’s a hotel for that.
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Just outside of Stuttgart, Germany, is the boutique car extravaganza known as Motorworld, which offers more than just an opportunity to gawk at these hot rods. There are ten bedrooms in the facility that you can stay in, each designed from real car parts, representing different stages in automobile production.
2. Attrap’Rêves, France
When you were a kid, did you ever watch your pet hamster rolling around the room in their toy plastic ball and think “I want one of those”? We didn’t either, but if you find yourself in the village of Aspres-sur-Buëch in southeastern France, you might just want to try out sleeping in one.
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Placed in the middle of the pastoral countryside at the Attrap’Rêves (Dream-Catcher) are a series of giant transparent bubbles, so you don’t miss a moment of the gorgeous surroundings. It’s like camping but you’re protected from the bugs. Still though, would you be comfortable with having your every action be visible?
3. Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, Maldives
If Sebastian the Crab didn’t convince you that it’s better down where it’s wetter, just have a gander at this underwater paradise. Built sixteen feet beneath the warm surface of the Indian Ocean in the island nation of Maldives, the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island has built the world’s first hotel suite that’s completely submerged.
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This villa within the hotel complex is called the Muraka, which means ‘coral’ in the local tongue Dhivehi. If privacy is a concern for you, don’t worry: the dozens of species of tropical fish swimming past your window generally know how to keep a secret. Among the world’s coolest hotels, this is the only one of its kind.
4. Montaña Mágica Lodge, Chile
Nestled in the Huilo-Huilo Nature Reserve is a land of thick forest, frigid rivers and lakes, and active volcanoes. It is in this land before time that you can find a hotel experience that combines every fantasy film franchise you can think of – and exceeds them. It’s equal parts The Shire, Endor, and Pandora, and simultaneously none of them.
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The building of the Montaña Mágica is not only unique for its outlandish appearance. It makes its mark as one of the coolest hotels around with a special feature: the building routinely erupts water! But hopefully you’re an Indiana Jones fan, as you’ll have to cross a swinging rope bridge just to get there.
5. Free Spirit Spheres, British Columbia
Looking for a place where you can commune with nature and find adequate space to meditate? The temperate rainforests of British Columbia that surround the city of Vancouver are the perfect place to do that – but why enjoy your solace among the trees when you can literally sleep inside a giant nut?
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Even if you come here to get away in these hanging orbs suspended in the forest, it’s not exactly the roughest set up out there. You will have electricity and even your own speaker system. Just don’t get too wild – these hanging spheres do have a tendency to swing back and forth.
