Weird and wonderful hotel experiences from around the world

[Honey]

Fancy spending your holidays inside an old sewer pipe or doing a stretch in a prison cell, for fun? Incredibly, now you can. These are just two of the weird and wonderful places to stay collected in a new book, Extreme Hotels. So pack your bags and book in for the strangest bed and breakfast experiences in the world...


Cockpit and cocktails: An old Bristol freighter doubles as a motel in Otorohanga, New Zealand. There's one suite in the old pilot's quarters and one in the tail.









A woof over your head: When two chainsaw artists in Idaho, U.S.A, decided to create a roadside attraction to entice visitors to their studio, this was the result - Sweet Willy, the Beagle B&B.






Call the lifeboat: These two marine survival capsules in The Hague, Netherlands, have been converted to a hotel.






For cave men and their women: You can stay in these 5th century cliff dwellings in Cappadocia, Turkey, now warmly reappointed as rooms for rent.









What a dive: This is the visible portion of the Utter Inn in Sweden, a 'cottage' with an underwater room. You are just rowed out to it and left in peace, with only the fish for company.






Cold cuts only? The Igloo Village provides surprisingly warm accommodation in a ski resort high in the Swiss Alps







Pipe dream: Pieces of concrete sewage pipe in Austria have been fitted with beds, and you pay only what you think they are worth.






VAT included: Old winemaking barrels have been turned into bedrooms in Stavoren, Holland.






Doing porridge: A former military prison in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is now a youth hostel called Celica (which means cell)






Bed and Bizarre: Weird and wonderful hotel experiences from around the world | the Daily Mail

[Mariesoleil]

Some of those are pretty neat. Others I could not do, I'd feel like I was trapped.

[angelais]

Geez, I thought Circus Circus in Vegas was craptastic, but these are just bizarre.

[lalala]

The weirdest are the japanese hotel rooms the size of a coffin, I could never crawl in there

[missbazilb]

Apparently the hotel owners in Cappadocia shop at Ikea. I have the same bed!!!

[lalala]

Talking of Ikea there is an Ikea hotel somewhere is Sweden (or Norway?). People sleep in the bedrooms designed in the shop and have to pack up early in the morning before the regular clients show up

[radha]

some of these look so cool

[DitaPage*]

Originally Posted by Mariesoleil

Some of those are pretty neat. Others I could not do, I'd feel like I was trapped.

Me too.
The dog B&B is so cool.

[sputnik]

i stayed in a hotel in basel that used to be a prison. you can choose between cell rooms or bigger ones that are where the police station used to be. it wasn't as authentic as the one in the pics that's now a youth hostel (though definitely more comfortable).

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Au-Violon - Reviews and Ratings of Hotels in Basel - New York Times Travel

[sparkly]

Some of those rooms frighten me. But most were really cool. I wonder if they attract tourists. I'd love to stay at the Beagle B&B.