Original Hotels

The Wagon Stays Hotel is a hotel where each room is comfortably situated in an old wagon. This hotel is an ecologically friendly hotel, and can be found in New Zealand.

Each wagon is designed and furnished as a comfortable guest room, decorated with ornaments that mimic a more ancient style. However, under the screen of old designs guests will find an array of technologies and other luxurious details. Price per night at this hotel varies between 120 and 160€ according to the season.

Almost every aspect of this hotel is eco friendly and respectful to nature. The structure of each wagon is made of different types of wood, while the innovative insulating material is made of thick sheep’s wool. All the windows at each wagon are double glazed, and the lamps are low consumer lamps. Most of the electricity used at this hotel comes from the solar panels installed on its territory.

Each wagon has a large double bed, a study sized kitchen with all the necessary equipment, and temperature regulators such as heat pump or air conditioning. Furthermore, each room has its own bathroom with a computer controlled shower. In order to be able to organize and enjoy cozy dinners, the large dining table can be adjusted at different heights, becoming a small coffee table or a large dining table. If guests want to relax, they can watch the flat screen TV or choose between a wide range of DVDs and CDs. Guests are also invited to enjoy free international press, fast Internet connection and telephone coverage.

Outside each wagon guests can find an outside private bathtub. Near the bathtub guests can also enjoy the barbecue facilities, although it is recommended to reserve it in advance. Guests staying at this hotel will also be able to enjoy the laundry service.

Wagon Stays offers its guests a wide range of complimentary tea and coffee throughout the day. Guests are also invited to try the continental breakfast served at this hotel as well as a delicious organic and ecological dinner.

The Wagon Stays Hotel is located in the middle of the countryside, in Cashmere Road, near the city of Christchurch. The atmosphere created by the excellent old design in each wagon reminds guests of what the first settlers must have felt upon arrival. The views from the hotel are truly beautiful, with a panorama full of clear country lanes, vast fields and the nearby mountains.

The Parrot Nest Lodge in Cayo, Belize is a curious hotel in a tree house, surrounded by jungle and with hundreds of parrots flying around. The hotel is a luxurious hotel in Central America.

The Parrot Nest Lodge is a small hotel which is ideal for those who want to relax. It is located near the jungle and at night one can observe the stars from the hotel. Hundreds of parrots live in the hotel, making this hotel very famous amongst birdwatchers. This hotel offers its guests a unique tropical experience allowing visitors to sleep in large tree houses in a one hundred year old tree. The hotel is also near the Mopan river, where guests can swim during the hot summer days. The large territory belonging to the hotel borders with the rainforest, and guests can take long walks admiring the nature around them and watching flocks of parrots and other tropical birds fly past them. Those who like nature can also observe more dangerous reptiles, amphibians and large mammals, such as the coati or the great iguana. Some of the least dangerous but more curious species sometimes go into the hotel.

The hotel is located in the small town of Bullet Tree Falls, near the tropical jungle. The Parrot Nest Lodge consists of two large tree houses and four traditional cabins. Price per night varies between 28 and 42€, with an extra 4.2 to 5.2€ for a breakfast and 8€ for dinner. The breakfast and dinner are both served in two varieties, normal and vegetarian, and guests can enjoy their meals on the terrace of the main cabin.

Each tree house and all four cabins have a double room, each one of them with a double bed and a ventilator. Two of the cabins have an extra bed, while three of the cabins also have their own porch. Nearly all cabins also have their own hammock where one can lie and observe the nature. There is also clean and drinkable water in all rooms.

This magnificent hotel is only 4.8 kilometers from the small village of San Ignacio. Visitors can visit the local village, swim in the river, explore and walk through the region’s many waterfalls and caves. There are also several interesting archeological sites nearby, and trips can be organized for those willing to explore the jungle, follow the trails of medicinal plants or visit a large butterfly farm, amongst many other activities.

The Mardan Palace hotel is located in the resort town of Antalya, in Turkey, near the Mediterranean. The architecture of this hotel is a representation of the major architectural influences across the country.

The exclusive hotel is decorated like the ancient Ottoman palaces. The silhouette of the hotel reminds us of an elite military academy, while at the front of the hotel we can find a surprisingly good copy of the Galata Bridge in Istanbul. The hotel provides its guests with all kinds of luxurious comforts, and has several swimming pools, including one where visitors can swim with real fish.

Those visitors who choose to stay at this hotel will be able to swim in any of the numerous swimming pools, visit a spa, relax while enjoying a massage or a traditional hamam. The Mardan Palace Spa is an exclusive spa where one can take a steaming bath, enjoy some thalasso therapy and rest in the crystal waters of the Mediterranean.  Price per night at this rather exclusive hotel varies according to the room one stays at, since prices might range from 440€ to 550€.

The hotel has various different types of rooms and several suites. The most notorious rooms are the Grand Hammam Suite, the Executive Suite, and the Dolmabahce Deluxe Suite, all of them decorated by the best designers. Several suites have their own hamam for relaxation, while some of the garden suites share a swimming pool, making those rooms ideal for families or large groups.

The hotel has all kinds of entertainment and cultural activities, such as different restaurants, bars, outside and inside swimming pools, access for handicapped, a gym and a big conference room, activities for children, and Internet access. The most curious thing about this luxury hotel is the fact that the hotel has its own artificial reef where one can swim with more than 2 500 species of fish and other sea animals. Visitors can observe the fish, swim with rays, feed them, or simply practice snorkeling.

The Carré Rouge is a very curious hotel where one can live inside a red cube in the middle of the countryside. The hotel was designed by Gloria Friedmann, a contemporary art painter.

The hotel is located in the Lagnes plain in France, and is an innovative project designed to blend in and respect the environment. The cube has two floors and can accommodate up to six people. Part of the cube is painted in a bright red color, while one of the walls is made from glass.

On the ground floor we can find the living and dining rooms and a large kitchen, while on the top floor we can find the rooms with three double beds. Price per weekend is around 130€, and each extra night costs around 30€. Guests who stay at this hotel can enjoy all the comforts offered by it, such as sheets, covers, pillows, towels and crockery and cutlery. There is also enough firewood for the kitchen and the bathroom. Since this hotel is perfectly eco friendly, it foes not have water or electricity, which allows the guests to separate their busy lives from a nice and relaxing trip. Guests can use a water pipe which collects rain water in order to have running water.During the nights, guests can light old oil lamps, candles and chandeliers. If they want to, guests are also encouraged to visit the charming neighbouring village, only 700 meters away from the hotel.

The Hôtel Palafitte reminds one of the nearly classical hotels set upon pylons in the floating waters somewhere near the French Polynesia, except for the fact that this one is located in the very heart of Switzerland. The hotel can be found in the center of the Neuchâtel Lake.

The hotel was originally built partly upon strong pylons in the lake and partly on shore. The hotel has a total of 24 suites, built like small comfortable apartments. Each one of these rather original and unusual suites has its own private terrace and a small staircase allowing them to go directly down to the lake if one wants to enjoy a relaxing swim in the quiet waters. The views from each one of the suites are more than spectacular, since every single window in the hotel faces the magnificent lake and the wild nature surrounding it.

Each one of the suites costs between 300 and 410€ per night, but those cabins on shore cost between 285 and 300€ per night, although price may vary according to the season. In order to actually get to the hotel, visitors must first get to the small and charming city of Neuchâtel, which is only 10 minutes away from the hotel, where they can take the free express bus from the city.

Each suite has its own double bedroom and bathroom, and even the big windows make this place a quiet and peaceful one since the hotel was designed in a way that one cannot see the adjacent rooms from another room, but instead can enjoy the rather marvelous views of the lake. Each room has the best quality comfortable furniture and the best technologies. The guests who decide to stay at this hotel can enjoy a plasma TV, a music player and a computer in their rooms.

The views from each one of the enormous windows are more than impressive. One can relax while sitting on their private terrace and watching the lake and the Alps glimmer in the sunlight or take a bath in the quiet waters of the lake. Guests can also visit the rather charming town of Neuchâtel, a town known for being the center of the Swiss watch industry, or later on rent one of the many boats on shore and glide through the glimmering waters of the lake watching the sun set.

The Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa is very near to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The area is near 225 kilometres of desert and only 45 minutes fom Dubai, and this charming oasis in the desert is the ideal place if one wants to relax in a luxurious hotel that blends in perfectly with nature.

The hotel has several suites, such as the Presidential suite, the Emirates suite, the Royal suite and the Bedouin suite. The presidential suite is a grand, 530 metre squared room, with its own 11×9 swimming pool, a barbecue, handmade furniture, three bedrooms, enormous bathrooms, a giant bath, bedrooms for guests or sevice, two minibars, a fully equipped kitchen, Bvlgari accesories, plasma TV’s, private service, DVD, wifi, a security box and a private parking lot, amongst other things.

The hotel also has two Emirates suites, each one 375 metres squared, with a 14×6 metre pool, handmade furniture, two bedrooms, several bathrooms with a bath and Bvlgari accesories, bedrooms for the service, a garden, a minibar, a security box, wifi, Bluetooth, and many other commodities.

The hotel’s two Royal suites are 175 metres squared. They also have an individual swimming pool, handmade furniture, two bedrooms, a nicely equipped bathroom with Bvlgari accesories, and many other more traditional commodities, such as a security box, a television or internet.

In this hotel we can also find 37 smaller Bedouin suites, each one 75 metres squared. They also have a private swimming pool, handmade furniture, a King sized bed, an enormous bathroom with a shower and a big bath, Bvlgari decorations, minibar, a security box, a television and internet.

The hotel also has a luxurious spa where one can enjoy a relaxing massage, have their hair or nails done, try some new skin treatments or face masks. Furthermore, one can also visit the rather exclusive gym or relax in the thermal baths at the spa. One may also use this opportunity to try some hydrotherapy, go to a sauna or go to the massage centre.

Guests at this hotel have many activities from which to chose from, and some of them are  included in the price, depending on what type of suite one accomodates in. One can observe how hawks are trained, ride a camel, take a guided walk through the dunes, follow a camels path o practice the ancient sport of archery in the desert.One can enjoy a safari in the nearby Hajar mountains and taste a traditional meal, or visit the small traditional 200 year old village of Hatta, or visit the museums and gardens of Al Ain. Furthermore, guests can ride a quad bike or practice sand ski in the dunes.

The Lampang River Lodge Hotel is a very curious hotel in Thailand. This charming hotel stands near the bank of a river and has truly impressive views.

The Lampang River Lodge is a hotel with 60 wooden cabins representing the traditional style of the country. It is 6 kilometres away from the city of Lampang. Each one of the wooden cabins, or bungalows, has air conditioning and all the necessary commodities for a relaxing stay. Furthermore, mosquito nets are provided for the guests.

Price per cabin ranges from 100€ to 250€ per night. Most cabins are individual or double rooms, thought larger ones are available for more visitors. Each bungalow is surrounded by incredible views of the river or the natural forests around the hotel.

Near the bungalows one can find the restaurant that belongs to the hotel, where one will be able to have their breakfasts and dinners. Inside this restaurant, one can find the “Sala Sunset” room, a perfect place to enjoy some thai cocktails near the river.

On the hotel grounds one can find a swimming pool, a small pond and several paths for those who enjoy hiking or cycling. Guestas can also enjoy a real thai massage and relax while strolling near the river.

River Lodge and its surroundings are perfect for those who want to relax their mind and body while observing the beauty of nature around them. It is highly recommended to watch the sunrise and sundown while sitting near the bungalows near the river, a truly magical experience. The hotel is also near a forest, a good place for those looking for some ecotourism.

The Rogner Bad Blumau hotel is a modern style hotel which also happens to be one of the most environmentally friendly hotels in the world. The hotel is surrounded by hills, and in order to blend in with nature, the roof of the building is completely covered by grass.

This hotel was designed and built by the famous architect Hunderwasser, who opened the hotel in 2000. The hotel is located in the Bad Blumau region in Austria, and the architect’s curious design has been compared to Gaudi’s style.

Guests who stay at Bad Blumau can relax by enjoying thermal baths and treatments which are found right in the center of the hotel. Furthermore, the visitor can savour an excellent meal at the hotel restaurant, where thay can find many food varieties and new flavours for breakfast, lunch and supper.

The hotel has a total of 312 rooms, designed in a very original and interesting way. Eight of these rooms are not rooms, but more like small underground cottages, while thirteen other rooms are superior apartments which, when looked upon from the outside, look like the eyelashes of the building. All the rooms are painted in lively, bright colors, using basic shapes. Upon arrival, one might notice that no straight lines or edges can be found at the hotel.

Price per person per night varies between 120€ and 260€, though taxes have to be added. By paying at least one night at the hotel, one has an unlimited access of the thermal spa and can enjoy massages and water treatments. The spa also has various types of sauna, several different massages and diverse relaxation programmes.

Even from the outside, the hotel manages to surprise us. Its wavy lines, brilliant primary colours and non traditional designs inspire all the visitors. On the hotel grounds, one can find a thousand year old oak tree, and enjoy the surrounding paysage that uncovers before your feet as one sits in the shade.

Near the hotel, one can find the delicious Zotter chocolate factory, or visit the chocolate theater right next to it. Both of them can be found in Riegersburgabout, only 30 kilomentres from the hotel. One can learn all about the chocolate producing process, and try all the different types of chocolate and candy produced there.

The Sala Silvermine Hotel is a curious bed and breakfast in Sala, Västmanland, in Sweden. This small hotel has only one suite, 150 metres under the ground.

This hotel used to be an old silvermine, situated 120 kilometres away from Stockholm. In the past, this mine used to produce more than 3 tonnes of silver per year, but after it was abandoned the site was reconstructed and became a luxurious hotel. Since the suite is 150 metres under the ground, the temperature in there is always around 2ºC. However, the temperature in the room is around 18ºC, and in order to not feel the cold, extra thick covers are provided.

This luxurious suite is a fusion of both the traditional and the modern styles. This impressive suite costs around 250€ per night. Every morning, a hotel employee brings down a traditional breakfast to their guests.

Inside the ancient cave near the suite, one can explore the many hidden tunnels and passageways under the ground. Hotel guides offer interesting tours around the underground hotel, and one has the opportunity to learn about the history of the mines and their refurbishment into an unusual hotel.

The more traditional wing of the hotel can be found above ground, called the Gruvfrun bed and breakfast. The interesting part of this is that the new rooms are located in the old dining room used by the silverminers. The other part of the hotel has 15 double rooms, each one of them decorated in the different styles from the 1920’s to the 1950’s.

The superior part of the silvermine hotel also has a large hall for celebrations such a music festivals, weddings and all types of parties. One can also enjoy a birdwatching safari near the surrounding region, as well as relaxing themselves in the quiet atmosphere of the hotel.

The Pavilion hotel is situeated in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, London. This excentric hotel is in the very heart of the city, and has thirty rooms, each one more curious than the next.

Each one of the thirty rooms has its own style, starting from the most minimalist style to the sixties. Each room is decorated with exclusive furniture and designs, some reminding us of the sixties, such as the Honky Tonky Afro, and some reminding us of the funky era. Tha Casablanca Nights room is of maroccan style, while the Quiet Night room is a small and rather quiet and peaceful room. White Days Soul Nights is a large, noisy, and a rather alive room, but those who want to relax can enjoy the Indian Summer room.

One can find rooms according to different themes. There is a monochrome Marilyn room, decorated with black and white portraits of Marilyn Monroe, or a Gold Finger room, inspired by the same name movie. In the Secret Garden room one will find everything draped in shades of green, alluding to the British vintage cinema. The Silver Salon room is an enormous room, decorated with silver leaf and all types of luxurious furniture, carpets and decorations, which has been widely used by many magazines and photographers for their photo shoots. There are many more rooms, each one alluding to a certain era.

This rather outstanding hotel costs around 63€ per night in an individual room, while a family room can cost 138€ per night. One can also enjoy the hotel made delicious breakfasts, and english breakfasts can be served in the room itself if one remebers to reserve the service beforehand.

This hotel was founded by the siblings Danny and Noshi Karne, and is right in the center of London. It is surrounded by many different bars, pubs, restaurants and other entertainment possibilities. The guests also have the unique opportunity to rent one of Danny’s famous cars. This ex model’s collection includes a Range Rover, a Ferrari Modena and a purple Lamborghini.

This extraordinary hotel is often visited by many celebrities. Kate Moss and Pete Doherty used to stay at this hotel until he organized a party that was too lavish for the place.  Some of the many famous people, groups, musicians, actors or models that have stayed in this unusual hotel include Duran Duran, Naomi Campbell, Kate Beckinsale, Helena Bonham Carter, Daft Punk and the Beach Boys, all of whom have enjoyed this magical and truly outstanding hotel.