The most unusual and extreme hotels on the planet

Recommendation points

• Number like a work of art
• Sewer room
• Tower crane room
• Tree house
• Prison cell
• Ice room
• “Dog” hotel
• Boeing room
• Hamster house

You can travel for a wide variety of purposes – to see new countries and cities, meet new people, attend any interesting event, because of the work associated with frequent trips.

Number like a work of art

Propeller Island City Lodge is Berlin’s most unusual hotel. This is not just a hotel, but a work of modern art created by the German artist Lars Stroshen, but you can live here, which is what many tourists enjoy..

Propeller Island City Lodge has 45 rooms, no two of which are the same – each is something very special. There is a room with a sloping floor, with a suspended bed, a room where all the furniture is located on the ceiling, a room covered with old newspapers and drawings, a room – a kaleidoscope, all walls of which are faced with shards of mirrors. And the creator of the hotel loves to spend the night in an orange room, in which the bed is an ordinary mattress placed on a huge window sill.

The cost of living in this amazing Berlin hotel ranges from 69 to 115 dollars per night.

Propeller Island City Lodge Hanging Bed Room

The most fabulous room in a Berlin hotel, the bed is a real castle, and the walls are decorated with vivid drawings

Probably the most extreme room at Propeller Island City Lodge – a coffin bed can scare off most tourists, even those who would like to tickle their nerves.

A black and white room in a Berlin hotel, fortunately, the bed is quite ordinary, but the interior itself is simply amazing with a variety of drawings

Sewer room

Another very unusual hotel – Dasparkhotel, is located in the park of the city of Ottensheim in Austria, 190 kilometers from Vienna.

The rooms of this unique hotel are set in cement pipes, which are commonly used in the construction of sewers and drains..

The rooms are unexpectedly cozy – there is a double bed, a woolen rug, a small wardrobe, electricity is provided, you can even stand up in a chimney.

But there is no shower or toilet in the rooms, of course. Each guest receives a plan, which indicates the location of bathrooms, showers and recreation areas. In addition, tourists receive a map with a detailed plan of the location of the nearest cafes, shops, restaurants and attractions..

In winter, the Austrian Dasparkhotel does not work – there is simply no heating in the rooms from the sewer pipes.

An interesting feature of this hotel is that the payment for accommodation is not set here, each guest independently decides how much to pay for the night.

The pipes-rooms of the Dasparkhotel are rather large and unexpectedly cozy. The walls are painted inside, and the doors are an ordinary metal hatch

Tower crane room

In the provincial town of Harlingen in the Netherlands, an enterprising owner converted an ordinary tower crane into the most original hotel in the country. There is only one room for two guests, therefore, to stay at this hotel, you need to make an appointment at least several months in advance – there are too many people who want to spend the night at a height of 45 meters (the approximate height of a ten-story building).

The tower crane operator’s cab contains a bedroom, a bathroom, and a seating area with a sofa. Dinner and breakfast can be ordered by phone, and it will be served through a special hatch with a lift.

Of course, the main decoration of the room is the amazing view from the windows. From such a height, the entire local sea coast is perfectly visible, you can admire the wonderful sunset. In addition, the crane cabin rotates 360 degrees, and hotel guests can independently manage their temporary accommodation using a special remote control..

Accommodation in a tower crane is not cheap at all – 319 euros per day.

The interior of the room in the crane operator’s cabin looks very industrial, but at the same time attractive. The owners did not hide the equipment and metal parts, simply beating them in the interior design

A recreation area with a hatch through which food and everything necessary for a comfortable stay is delivered to guests

Tree house

The Ariau Amazon Towers is the world’s largest tree hotel. This literally green hotel is located in a tropical forest, on the banks of one of the many tributaries of the Amazon – the Rio Negro, in the northern part of Brazil.

Of course, there are numbers on trees in other countries of the world, for example, in Sweden, England, Peru, Costa Rica, Zambia and the United States, but the Brazilian Treehouse is amazing in its scale.

If in ordinary “tree hotels” there are only four or five, up to a maximum of ten rooms, then Ariau Amazon Towers is a whole 268 rooms, which are located on tropical trees, whose fortress is quite comparable to iron. This unusual hotel was opened back in 1987, Dr. Francisco Ritta Bernardino, a Brazilian lawyer and financier, decided in this way to achieve two goals at once – to save the rainforest from deforestation and, what to hide – just make money.

Among the houses there are modest single rooms, rooms for two or three people and spacious suites with separate dining rooms, open terraces and offices. The rooms are connected to each other by a complex system of suspended tracks, the total length of which reaches eight kilometers.

The cost of living in this original hotel is from 484 to 1260 dollars per day, depending on the comfort and spaciousness of the room, so the pleasure is not cheap.

This is how the Ariau Amazon Towers looks from above – the hotel is lost in the rainforest and river floodplain, so silence and perfectly clean air are guaranteed for guests

Who in childhood did not dream of such a tree house, where you can hide from the surrounding, not always hospitable world? Now adult guests of a Brazilian hotel can finally make their dreams come true

Prison cell

How to use an old but still quite solid prison? Of course, as a hotel for those who would like to experience the thrill and feel like a prisoner, of course, for a short time and with the ability to leave the cell at any time. This is exactly what Gary Adam and his wife Patricia Flury, the owners of the original The Jail in Australia, decided..

For a long 130 years, starting in 1866, this building in the town of Mount Gambier was used as a detention center for murderers, rapists and other dangerous criminals. However, in 1995, the prison was closed, and the former cells were converted into hotel rooms..

The atmosphere at The Jail is quite spartan, without the luxury and amenities. However, one should not expect anything else from the former prison – people come here not for comfort, but for new impressions..

There are “chambers” designed for ten, four, three and two guests, and those wishing to be alone with themselves can choose a real “loner”. The rooms have only beds and a bedside table, the kitchen is shared, along the corridor, as well as the bathroom, and those who wish are given morning rations, repeating the diet of real prisoners. Walking around the prison yard, closed on all sides, only reinforces the impression of a real place of detention.

For all the Spartan conditions, living in The Jail is not cheap: single room – $ 45, double room – $ 90 per night.

A former Australian prison cell that has become a hotel room. By the way, the owner of this unusual hotel makes the mattresses for the beds himself – from pine shavings and an ordinary cotton bag

You can also come to The Jail hotel for a guided tour – the guide will tell you about the most famous prisoners, show the cells where they have repeatedly seen ghosts and show all the most interesting corners of the building. Tour price – 3.3 Australian dollars

Ice room

One of the most beautiful and at the same time very unusual hotels on the planet is located just 200 kilometers from the Arctic Circle – in the vicinity of the town of Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. The hotel is entirely built of ice and is rebuilt every year with the arrival of cold weather, so that the rooms are always new and original decoration. The size of the hotel also changes every year – designers have a unique opportunity to experiment with interiors every time. That is why even those who have already visited the Icehotel once may see a completely different building next year..

Guests sleep on natural reindeer skins, in sleeping bags laid on a base made of spruce branches – this is the only way to somehow warm up on the bed, which is a huge piece of ice. In the morning, Icehotel guests will have a mug of hot lingonberry mulled wine – a very pleasant awakening, given that the temperature in the rooms does not exceed minus 5-10 degrees.

The hotel also has a cinema, a golf room, a chapel and a museum of ice figures – all made of ice, of course. Icehotel guests spend most of their time in the Absolute Bar, trying to warm up with vodka, which is traditionally served in ice glasses. Following the Swedes, ice hotels began to be built in Canada, Norway, and even Romania. But Icehotel in Sweden is not only the very first, but also the largest, it can accommodate up to 100 guests at a time.

Such an icy number costs about $ 600.

Ice rooms – a truly magnificent sight, as if you find yourself in the castle of the Snow Queen

A quite appropriate decoration for such a room is the statues of polar bears. By the way, showers and toilets in the Ice Hotel are located in a separate room, it is a little warmer there.

“Dog” hotel

No, no, this is not a hotel for four-legged human friends. Just self-taught artists Francis Conklin and Dennis Sullivan decided to build a small hotel building in the shape of a dog. It turned out, according to the creators, “the largest hound in the world”.

Dog Bark Park Inn is located in the tiny town of Cottonwood (Idaho, USA) and has become the main and only local attraction.

The authors cut their hotel with a chainsaw for 1.5 years, now the wooden figure of a dog can accommodate a family of four. The hotel also has a gallery where guests can see and, of course, buy smaller wooden statues of dogs.

To get into the only room of this original hotel, you need to climb the stairs to the dog’s head. But the view from here is not very picturesque – on the fields with barley and cinnamon, there are smaller figures of dogs nearby for color

Boeing room

727 Fuselage Home (Hotel Сosta Verde), which is better known as the Airplane Hotel, is a vivid example of how you can make good use of old equipment. Located in Costa Rica, in the Manuel Antonio National Park, which is 180 kilometers from the city of San Jose.

This is indeed a real Boeing 727, which has already flown its own, performing flights since 1965. The plane became only part of the Costa Verde hotel, which is known for its restaurant, luxury bungalows and the opportunity to ride yachts and ATVs.

The plane is fixed at a height of 20 meters on a stone ramp, in order to climb to it, you need to overcome wooden steps. But the view from the open terrace on the wing opens up amazing – to the rainforest and the ocean.

Boeing has only one suite with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a dining room. Costs $ 400 for one night in a plane.

The Boeing 727, despite its rich history, still looks great; its wing has an outdoor terrace with a secure roof

The space inside the plane is decorated with teak, wood is literally everywhere, the room looks really expensive and beautiful

Hamster house

The title of the smallest and at the same time the most stupid hotel in the world is claimed by the French La Villa Hamster or simply the Hamster’s House.

The hotel, which is located in an 18th century building, has only one room with an area of ​​16 “squares”. The highlight of the Hamster House is that every guest can really feel like a rodent. Actually, the first thing that hotel guests do is put on a hamster costume, and the interior of the room is very reminiscent of an ordinary cage for these small pets..

Guests are offered lunch with organic grain, which is poured into a container, washed down with plain water from a metal barrel, and as entertainment – run in a huge wheel, apparently, so that later you can sleep better.

Recently the owners of the Hamster House decided to raise the price for an overnight stay in this unusual room from 99 to 150 euros. Why not? There are plenty of people who want to feel like a rodent, there is, of course, a shower, a toilet, a kitchen, and even Wi-Fi, so you can live quite comfortably.

The main entertainment of the guests of La Villa Hamster is a huge squirrel wheel

Most of the travelers, of course, prefer quite ordinary, traditional hotels. But, you see, sometimes you want, at least for a day, to stay in a tree house, visit an ice bar, settle on an airplane wing or climb the dizzying height of a tower crane. The uniqueness of these hotels is the main reason for their popularity among tourists, and since there is a demand, then the idea of ​​the owners, no matter how strange it may seem, still makes sense and makes a profit.