Quirky luxury hotels - Stay in a fairytale castle

Tuesday, 3 April 2012 10:36 AM

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 Hotel.

Located in the southern Australian city of Adelaide Thorngrove Manor truly provides a romantic getaway with a difference. And with just seven uniquely styled rooms you’re guaranteed intimacy and privacy.

The fairytale dream doesn’t just end with the outside though, as the inside will also want to make you live out your Sleeping Beauty fantasies, with four poster canopy draped beds, stately antique style furniture, tapestries, ornate fireplaces and hanging chandeliers.

Dining too is a regal affair with fine antiques and sterling silver, as well as delicious gourmet meals and top quality Australian wines. Prince and Princess fitting activities include relaxing and indulging treatments in the hotel’s own spa or romantic walks through dreamy gardens with commanding vistas to top it all off.

Dreams really do come true in this enchanted palace.

Quirky luxury hotels - Stay in a boot

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.

Quirky luxury hotels - Stay in a palace made of salt in Bolivia

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.

Quirky luxury hotels - Winvian Cottages

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.