Though not technically a hotel, this room could possibly have the best view in the whole of London. When you picture this you’re probably imagining an exclusive pent house suite on top of some iconic building, not a wooden boat perched precariously on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre, as if left there by retreating floods.
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Sleeping in a car may not be your idea of luxury travel, but at the V8 Hotel in Stuttgart, Germany it truly is. Fulfilling the fantasies of all men and little boys, or just anyone mad about anything to do with wheels and engines, the V8 Hotel provides four star luxuries combined with vintage cars and unique design.
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Perched on the edge of the Ice Fjord, where you can sit and watch the ice bergs sail like giant ships across the bay, sit the silvery domes of the igloo cabins at the Arctic Hotel, on the western coast of Greenland.
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Twenty luxury eco cabins cling to the parched ochre mountainside with views across the dramatic Valle de Gaudalupe in Mexico’s Baja California.
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Set in a 1840s neoclassical railway station in the heart of Milan, the Maison Moschino provides guests with a unique design experience where nothing is as it seems.
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If you’ve ever dreamed of staying in a disneyesque fairytale castle, then this is probably what you imagined - turreted towers, romantic balconies, immaculate manicured gardens with scrambling roses and soft enchanting lighting. Welcome to the Thorngrove Manor.
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You’d usually expect to see elephants when you’re travelling through the Sri Lankan jungle, but to actually sleep inside one is a completely different story.
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Set in the area of Cappadocia in central Turkey, lies a vast area crisscrossed with lunar-like landscapes of deep valleys, undulating peaks and dramatic rock formations. If there ever was a perfect spot for a cave hotel, then this would be it.
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Yesterday saw the opening of Forest Holidays new luxury eco-cabins in Nottinghamshire’s most legendary spot. These cabins are not your usual basic rustic cabins, these are über luxurious retreats nestled in 3,300 acres of prime woodland. Each cabin blends into the forest floor and the trees surrounding it, and invites you to claim your own slice of nature.
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Step into a world where ink stains splatter the walls, monsters cling to the ceilings, intricate forests surround your bed and regal chandeliers hang above your head, this is the Hotel Fox.
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Glamping’s new destination in north Cornwall are the Atlantic Surf pods, a secluded enclave of eco pod cabins located just a few minute’s drive from the sea. Set on a peaceful 26 acre farm they combine environmentally friendly features with cosy luxury.
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The strange story-book world of Winvian is an enchanting playground where anything goes. Looking at the cottage map, you’d probably be forgiven for thinking this was a map of the ‘Hundred Acre Wood’, right out of story of Winnie the Pooh, complete with names such as Tree House, Log Cabin, Beaver Lodge, Secret Society and Charter Oak.
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You’ve all probably heard the nursery rhyme about ‘the old woman who lives in a shoe’ and like us have probably always secretly wished you had a house shaped like a shoe too. Well now you can live out your fairytale fantasies at the luxurious boutique hotel, The Boot, located on the beautiful Ruby Coast in the Tasman region of New Zealand.
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On the northeast coast of the Thai island of Koh Samui, sits the Imperial Boat Beach House Resort, comprising 34 luxurious and romantic suites, each one converted from an authentic teakwood rice barge. Each barge has been placed surrounding the pool, and set amid lush tropical gardens.
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We’ve found some weird and quirky luxury hotels over the past few months, but this has to be one of the most unusual yet - a hotel made entirely from salt! The Palacio de Sal Hotel & Spa, or Palace of Salt is located on the Bolivian Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flats at around 10,582 square kilometres, and is built entirely from the raw materials found there.
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Bullrings are not usually things that you would ever want to sleep in; these beautiful Coliseum-like buildings are typically used to display the bloody sport of bullfighting. However, one bullring located in Zacatecas, central Mexico has been turned into the Quinta Real Zacatecas luxury hotel, fit for far more civilised things than fighting.
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Located 120km to the northwest of Stockholm in the small and charming Swedish town of Sala, situated 155m deep underground, lies the Sala Silvermine mine suite - the world’s deepest hotel room.
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Dodo’s Tower is an eight-story Chinese like-pagoda tower that sits on the shores of Kenya’s Lake Naivasha in Hippo Point safari park. Although the tower is not a structure that you’d usually expect to find in a safari park, it’s beige and green colours and organic structure help it to camouflage perfectly with its natural surroundings.
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The ICEHOTEL is certainly one of the world’s quirkiest luxury hotels, if not the coolest too. It’s also probably one of the best known, famous for the fact that, as the name suggests, it is built entirely from ice. The ICEHOTEL makes for one of the most perfect romantic winter breaks one could imagine.
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At The Library Hotel in Manhattan, New York City you can relax and slip away into a world of stories, adventure, fairytales and facts. This luxury boutique hotel is housed in a beautifully restored 1900 terracotta brick building and provides a serene oasis in the centre of New York.
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OK so sleeping in a train is not that quirky, but when it’s an old Alaskan railroad car decked out with glittering chandeliers and gilt gold ceilings then it is. The Aurora Express Bed & Breakfast is located just outside the city of Fairbanks in central Alaska, tucked in between towering spruce trees. It affords stunning panoramic views of the Tanana River and the Alaskan Mountain Range.
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Set high up in the wild and stunning landscapes of the Arctic Circle, in Finnish Lapland, lies the Kakslauttanen resort, a perfect winter escape of sparkling snow and frozen fancies. Here you can delight in the snow and choose from a number of traditional Lappish accommodations, including cosy log cabins, snow or even glass igloos.
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La Balade des Gnomes hotel is located in the town of Durbuy in eastern Belgium, known locally as ‘the smallest towns on earth’. It’s a pretty town filled with narrow cobbled lanes and old stone cottages renowned for its quaint 17th century architecture and its excellent restaurants. This storybook-like town is a fitting setting for a hotel inspired by fairytales, a hotel whose motto is “all that you can imagine is real.”
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You may sleep in airplanes all the time when you go on holiday, but we’re sure you’ve never stayed in one like this before. Hotel Costa Verde have remodelled a 1965 Boeing 727 airplane into a luxurious hotel suite. The airplane perches on the edge of cliff, set on a 50ft pedestal, and provides the most spectacular views through the rainforest canopy and ocean beyond.
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Hidden deep in the biological reserve of Huilo Huilo in the beautiful Chilean Lake District, framed by the Patagonian Andes, stands a rocky mountain, covered in ferns and mosses and a sparkling cascading waterfall splashing down the side. Look closer and you will see many small windows perfectly camouflaged against the undergrowth.
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