The 10 Craziest Hotels in the World

The 10 Craziest Hotels in the World
The 10 Craziest Hotels in the World

The 10 Craziest Hotels in the World

 

Until recently, few would have said that the hotel makes the holiday. Traditionally, they’ve instead served as a base; an amenity-stacked home away from home that – unless of the all-inclusive type – have been somewhere to kick back and relax after an action packed day. But in this brave new world of hipster niche travel, international interconnectivity, and Instagram, all this is changing. Hotels are coming to occupy center stage of the holiday experience, and more people are going the extra mile to seek out the most unusual.

 

Thanks to

the herculean efforts of hoteliers around the world, holidaymakers are now at liberty to wake up wherever they like – whether it be underwater, up a mountain or even in space. Hotels come in all shapes and sizes: some small enough to house your goldfish; others large enough to have a realistic shot of declaring themselves an independent country. But in this list, we haven’t gone so much for size as for strangeness, quirkiness and individuality.

 

The hotels included here might not have the charmingly deranged management of “Fawlty Towers”. They might not have mirrors on the ceiling (actually, come to think of it, some of them might) and they might not offer pink champagne on ice. But hey – unlike the Eagle’s “Hotel California”, at least you can check out any time you like and, thankfully, you can also leave. Here they are:

10Capsule Inn, Osaka, Japan.

Capsule Inn Osaka Japan

9Crane Hotel Faralda, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Crane Hotel Faralda, Amsterdam, Netherlands

8The Galactic Suite Space Resort, Barcelona.

 

A slight amendment is needed here at the outset: as the name might suggest, the Galactic Suite Space Resort isn’t actually in Barcelona. That’s just were the company was founded back in 2007. The experience awaiting prospective guests of this stellar accommodation instead takes place across several different locations. Before being blasted off into space, guests spend several weeks at an astronaut training facility – not in a bleak inner-country warehouse, but on a paradisiacal tropical island.

 

The figures are pretty mind-blowing once the guests have blasted off: traveling just short of 20,000 mph, guests will orbit the earth 15 times a day (or every 90 minutes). This will involve watching a sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes – something that could admittedly be done from the comfort of your own home by looping this YouTube time-lapse video. The major difference, of course, is that the Galactic Suite Space Resort’s guests get to see this while experiencing weightlessness. True, you could watch the video while floating in an oversized water tank… but frankly that would look so ridiculous that you might as well just go into space (if you have €3 million lying around).

 

Most importantly of all, the whole experience looks to be super safe. While inside the resort, you’re treated to a velcro suit that lets you stick to the walls. So, assuming you don’t mistake the airlock for the bathroom door in the middle of the night, you can rest assured that nothing will happen that’ll have you floating frantically around space like Sandra Bullock in “Gravity”.

 

7Bivacco Gervasutti, Mont Blanc, Italy.

Bivacco Gervasutti, Mont Blanc, Italy.

6Skylodge Adventure Suites, Cusco, Peru.

Skylodge Adventure Suites, Cusco, Peru

5Das Park Hotel, Ottensheim, Austria.

Das Park Hotel, Ottensheim, Austria.

4Hotel CasAnus, Antwerp, Belgium.

Hotel CasAnus, Antwerp, Belgium.

3The Dog Bark Park Inn, Idaho, US.

The Dog Bark Park Inn, Idaho, US.

2Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden.

Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden.

1Null Stern Hotel, Graubünden, Switzerland.

Null Stern Hotel, Graubünden, Switzerland.