Some of the Weird Hotel Rooms in this Photo Essay.
The Mine Suite
After arriving at Sweden‘s Sala Silvermine, you’ll be treated to a guided tour of the “Festivity Hall” that culminates in a complimentary refreshments basket full of cheese, biscuits, fruit, chocolate, and sparkling wine. Then they’ll take you to your actual mineshaft quarters, 155 meters underground. Test your intercom (cell phones don’t really work down there), and take note of the bathroom’s location — about 50 meters from the suite, a super-fun walk when you’ve really got to go and it’s 18ºC.
Airbnb’s Beer Barrel Bed
Head over to Ostbevern, Germany, and book a private room with this queen-sized oddity. If you have trouble nodding off, just take some sleeping pilsners.
Snoozebox
This “mobile hotel” takes all the best parts of living in a “can” from season two of The Wire and puts them on the road, complete with amenities like flatscreens and luxury toilettes.
Ice Hotel
Notable for inspiring the “Ice Palace” in the not-even-remotely notable Bond flick Die Another Day, the frozen jewel of Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden is the closest you’ll ever come to sleeping in a -5 to -8ºC igloo, unless you have relatives who are Inuits, in which case enjoy Thanksgiving. The beds are literal blocks of ice with a wooden frame, mattress, and reindeer skins (“Make fun of my nose now, Dasher!”), and each morning, the staff will wake you up with a cup of hot lingonberry juice. You should thank god that’s not a euphemism.
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