Weird & Wacky Hotels around the World

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Travelling to a new place is always exciting; if you want to amp up your trip, you might be inclined to trysome of the world’s wackiest hotels.

Boutique, Weird & Wacky Hotels

The planet is panda crazy of late, and so much so, the Haoduo Panda Hotel in China is determined tocater to fans of the cute furry creatures. Located at the base of Emei Mountain in the Chinese provideof Sichuan, a thousand miles northwest of Hong Kong, the rooms are decorated with all things panda –bedding, linens, towels, carpet and pandas of the stuffed variety strategically placed about. Staffmembers wear panda costumes for the guest amusement!

On a tropical island off the coast of Tanzania, the Manta Resort offers splendid dining, a world classspa, and a choice of a most unusual room – four metres below the surface of the ocean! On the upperdeck you can enjoy sunbathing by day and stargazing at night. When it’s time to get tucked in, yourglass-walled bedroom is surrounded by tropical sea splendour and wildlife. On shore, enjoy a photosafari and world class dining seaside, celebrating the bounty of fresh local fish and seafood.

If “in the air” is more your thing than under the sea, you’ll be drawn to the Treehouse Hotel in theUmaria district of India. Located deep in India’s tiger country, not only are the comfortable roomsperched in the trees, but so is the hotel’s reception and social area, where you can lounge and spyexotic wildlife grazing at a nearby water hole. When you’re not asleep in the trees, the hotel canarrange jeep safaris to the adjacent Bandhavgarh Nature Reserve, home to the highest concentrationof Bengal tigers in the world. The park also contains rare white tigers, leopards, and rare species ofdeer.

At Kakslauttanen Hotel and Igloo Village in Saariselkä, a collection of glass igloos, with comfy beds,ensuite facilities, and a personal sauna present a wonderful opportunity to view and sleep under theAurora Borealis, the astral phenomenon commonly called the “Northern Lights.” In winter, hotel guestscan enjoy “safaris”, trips into the calm winter surroundings via reindeer, snow machine, or dog sled. Icefishing is available with down hill and cross country skiing nearby. Under the midnight sun in summer,vacationers try their luck at gold panning, forage for local wild mushrooms and berries, or bike onmountain trails.

The main dining facility, housed in a beautiful log building, as well as two other on site eateries, serve avariety of Lapland and Asian inspired dishes.

If “igloos” are not “winter enough” for you, the Icehotel in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden just might be to yourliking. At 200 km above the Arctic Circle, constructed each year since 1990, entirely from ice and snow,the hotel has an annual season lasting only from December through April. Everything in the hotel isconstructed from snow and ice, including the chairs and beds! In the hotel bar, you’ll find the glassesmade from ice.

Each year, different artists are invited to “sculpt” the guest rooms, providing each sleeping quarter witha unique appearance and style.

Winter activities include snow machine, horse or dog sled treks, learning the art of ice sculpting fromresident professionals, or mastering daredevil ice driving in a Mini Cooper on the hotel’s private icetrack.

Dining at the Icehotel Restaurant is an adventure in the culinary arts, as the chefs use the finest localingredients to come up with very innovative dishes such as moose carpaccio, fillet of reindeer, andpureed local root vegetables. Lighter meals are available in The Lounge.

A remnant of the highway culture of the 1950s, the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona offersaccommodations in replica Native American teepees, but with modern conveniences like private bathsand cable television. The fifteen units are laid out in a rectangle to resemble an American plains Indianvillage.

Also in Arizona, enjoy sleeping in a vintage caravan at the Shady Dell Vintage Trailer Court in thetown of Bisbee near the US / Mexico border. The restored trailers are furnished with 1950s style decorand original kitchens. Linens and dishes are furnished. A supply of decades old magazines and blackand white television programs will further entertain you.

You may have been “in the doghouse” or slept at an inn that you think may have “gone to the dogs”, butyou haven’t slept inside a giant Beagle unless you’ve stayed at the Dog Bark Park Inn Bed andBreakfast in Cottonwood, Idaho. The dog-themed rooms at the Inn sleep four, include modernamenities, except for a restful stay, televisions and telephones are not allowed in the doggy decoratedrooms. An extensive breakfast buffet is included with the room tariff.

Many of the hotel’s furnishings and decorations were created by the hotel’s “chainsaw artist” owner.

In Every Corner of the World

No matter where you travels take you, there are wonderfully wacky, off beat, or unusual themed hotelsto add to your holiday adventure.

Tim Capper spent 15yrs working in the Hospitality Industy and now writes for Luxury Hotel Travel

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