Forget everything you thought you knew about what a hotel room looked like. There are hotels in the world that are less room-oriented; it’s its architecture or design that’s instagram-worthy wonder. While courage can be so extraordinary, so can experience.
Whether you’re making plans conscientiously for you for the time being (or months and years to come), the features to stay are endless. Some prefer the convenience of knowing that they can buy a complete hotel for their own Covid-19 bubble protection. Others might need a logo call they know or a hotel that has staff on site to oversee fitness protocols. Those who have accumulated miles and problems can redeem them for an all-inclusive resort where they can hibernate in a tropical location.
Over the years, the rare hotel rooms for adventurous travelers have been well documented. To upload it to your wish list, here are 25 more eclectic and mind-blowing features at night to spark your preference for travel.
The view from above, tree house style.
You can sleep under the stars in Star Beds in Loisaba Sands, Kenya, a component of the Elewana collection, while perched on a cliff known for its animal gatherings. A safari in Kenya is an unforgettable experience, but sleeping alone on this platform is desirable with the twinning stars and endless perspectives of the savannah framing the experience.
At Tarangire Treetops at Elewana Collection, you can see giraffes and elephants from their hangers. These rooms would be among the largest in East Africa and are located in Tanzania’s sixth largest national park. The main hostel itself is surrounded by a millennial baobab tree.
In the United States, those five tree houses near the Oregon Cave Monument welcome visitors who want to explore the good looks of southern Oregon. Known as Out’n About Treesort, it is the best position for those who are in communion with nature.
In the Texas Hill Country River area, Treehouse Utopia is a tree-built community for this true “Swiss Robinson Family” experience. Its 4 tree houses, each decorated separately with the owner’s antique collection, the Sabinal River from its gigantic Cyprus bald perches.
Pods, tents, bubbles and more
Bird’s-eye views of tree houses are not valuable to explore. Hoteliers continue to look for increasingly artistic places to spend the night. At Tomamu Ice Hotel in Hoshino Resorts, Japan, visitors sleep in heated sleeping bags in rooms created with ice. The asset features a hot bath surrounded by ice and an exclusive iced tea service in the afternoon. To heat the other hand, the ice whisky cellar comprises 20 Japanese whiskies.
Bubble tents in the jungle of the Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp in Thailand allow visitors to sleep in privacy and comfort while watching resident elephants roam near their beds. The two popular tents debuted last November and were appreciated by visitors.
For more wonderful outdoor spots, head to New Zealand. Resistant glass compounds from the most sensitive to the bottom, PurePods scattered across the field show the starry sky and local plants that develop beneath the structure. These self-contained, solar-powered glamping houses immerse you in nature. Don’t worry, there is a functional bathroom with display case and toilet.
In the other aspect of the Tasmanian Sea, these inflatable bubble tents offer visitors the opportunity to practice the stars before bed. Bubble Tent Australia is located on a working farm in the Australian Capertee Valley (the world’s largest canyon at the moment). In addition to the bedroom, there is an en suite bathroom, an outdoor terrace and a fireplace. Don’t worry about privacy, as those tents are placed in secluded places so visitors can soak up nature.
In Norway, you can sleep in an igloo with 360-degree perspectives of the Trondheim Fjord in Trondelag. Open all year round, Trones Eye hotels are surrounded by cultural monuments and herbal beauty.
If your plans for 2020 may look like a disaster, why not sleep on one of your next vacation? Travelers to Namibia can sleep in a shipwreck (or at least one reproduction of one). The Shipwreck Lodge in Natural Selection offers accommodations specially designed to resemble one of the many 20th-century shipwrecks that already line the coast of the country’s skeleton. Wood stoves and fake fur blankets sleep visitors as they sleep in the middle of these famous sand dunes.
Life on the surface of the sea can be really dangerous, especially if you’re dizzy. Fortunately, the boat suites at Melia Koh Samui in Thailand are well located. They have the look and design of an original Thai-Chinese fishing boat (with furnished decks), but without the movement of the ocean. They also have The Level Lounge for free breakfast and evening cocktails.
Guests at Manta Resort can enjoy Zanzibar’s exotic delight with African Travel, Inc., which adds the ability to sleep underwater. With an overwater living room and an underwater room, you can monitor marine life from each and every angle.
Another option to feel like you’re sleeping underwater is Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai, home to several Ambassador Lagoon Aquarium suites. They create the ghost of sleeping under the sea and gain advantages from the facilities of a personal butler and a chef.
The Reef Suites, on the Whitsunday Islands of the Great Barrier Reef, puts visitors face to face with even more underwater creatures. The glass panels on the floor carry even more variety and angles for infinite landscape changes.
Back to earth in San Bernardino, California, the wigwams are the classic room of WigWam Motel. Each has a height of 32 feet with enough space for a queen bed and a living room. It has even been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sometimes being in nature is precisely what the soul needs. Drink and sleep in this personal loft in the vineyards between Cielos Luxury Wine Hotel and Spa in Mendoza, Argentina. With a growth of 30 feet above the 8 acres of Malbec grapes, the ophiles will be in their element.
Guests at Domaine de Montcy, in the Loire Valley, can also sleep in a wine barrel overlooking the vineyards. If you prefer not to be in the middle of the budding grapes, the rest of the farm is an option to rest.
You are alone with your mind as you contemplate the Norwegian Lysefjord in those fully equipped hotels called The Bolder Sky Lodges. They mix luxury and wildlife. The perspectives from this view are breathtaking, regardless of the time of day or night. This is a smart thing to do because in Norway, the day looks like an afternoon and the afternoon seems like a day.
In the center of the Serengeti, this cell safari camp is part of the Roving Bushtops luxury experience. Here you see it packed aboard a cellular unit nicknamed “a box on wheels” while being towed to its next location. Soon, a team of six others transforms the Rover into a fully functional luxury tent with all the bells and whistles. A wooden terrace, a Jacuzzi with sun loungers, a fully functional bathroom and a cozy bed await you.
If this is the pioneering American mobile phone party you’re interested in, an evening in an air-conditioned car at Yosemite Pines RV Resort may be the best destination for a road trip. These covered cars, now bound at a desk, can accommodate up to six more people to enjoy the pleasure of glamping.
To consolidate your wild Wild West experience, see how to live the lifestyle of farmers sleeping in a grain silo at Abbey Road Farm in Carlton, Oregon. This bed and breakfast is located on an 82-acre estate in the popular state wine region.
Whether you are a general fan of the elegant commercial appearance or mechanics of a structure site, the life of the crane may be for you. In Hamburg’s Hafentown harbor, unlike the Elbe Philharmonic, you can sleep in the crane compartment of a renovated crane with glass-walled city perspectives from your elegant and comfortable bedroom and terrace.
Copenhagen has its own crane, known as THEKRANE, where visitors can sleep in luxury accommodation in the former engine room overlooking the harbour. This one-bedroom hotel includes two terraces, a loose breakfast and (from Denmark) loose motorbikes to explore the city by bike.
Train fans will discover that this cabin car in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is precisely what ordered the driving force. Guests at The Clevedale Historic Inn and Garden can sleep in a 1947 Mack Rail cabin vehicle that was switched to a room with its own personal terrace.
In Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, consumers can pose as a driving force in exercise at the Train Station Inn. Here, the rooms are designed from covered carriages and repurposed cabins decorated with train souvenirs. Each has a fireplace, a personal bathroom and air conditioning for your convenience (just in case the true driving force of the exercise delights precisely for you).
Ramsey is a freelance journalist covering the hotel, cruise and airline industry around the world. His paintings have impressed many consumers and
Ramsey is an independent travel journalist covering the hotel, cruise and airline industry worldwide. His paintings have made the impression on many customer and industry publications, adding Conde Nast Traveler, Travel and Leisure, Business Traveller, CNBC, NerdWallet.com, AFAR, Robb Report Readers, Digest, BBC Worldwide, USA Today, Frommers, Fodors, Islands, Fortune, Airways, Yahoo, Travel Age West, MSN.com and AAA. Ramsey travels more than 450,000 miles a year and has traveled seven continents, 50 U.S. states. And 166 United Nations countries.