10 most unexpected and exotic hotel services
In hotels, in addition to bed and breakfast, you can get a lot of additional options: from a companion fish to a walk with lions. After reviewing the offers of hotels around the world, we have collected for you the most exotic and unexpected.
In the Japanese hotel chain Mitsui Garden Yotsuya, from March until the end of August this year, an unusual offer is valid: "The Crying Room". The room is offered to be rented by women who want to get rid of stress with the help of tears. To create an appropriate atmosphere, clients are provided with a dozen sentimental films, including the melodrama "Forrest Gump" with Tom Hanks, Japanese manga comics, books with a sad plot and soft cashmere napkins.
After cleansing sobs, the hotel offers to make a steam hydro massage eye mask and use a hot water bottle. "Crying is a woman's happy privilege," the network's website claims. Accommodation in the "crying room" is possible only alone, the price is 10,000 yen (4,400 rubles).
The British hotel Happy Guests Lodge in Cheshire has taken care of those who need communication: it provides goldfish for rent — 5 pounds (430 rubles) apiece per day. Owner Jeff Riley claims that the service is a great success, and after publications in the world media calls his pets "world famous".
"Many of our guests spend many days away from home," he explains. "Those who travel without company may suffer from loneliness, and the fish gives them unconditional love, you can talk to her and say everything that has accumulated after a difficult day."
In the Swedish city of Gothenburg, the Faktum Hotel offers to feel homeless. For 100 Swedish kronor (677 rubles), you can spend the night in a park, under a bridge by the highway and by the river, at a closed paper mill or under a cart at the port.
Accommodation is possible in a sleeping bag, a makeshift tent, on a bench, cardboard boxes, newspapers — there are ten options to choose from. Thus, the hotel is trying to draw attention to the problem of the homeless, of which there are about 3,400 people in the city. A place for a flophouse can be rented for yourself or as a gift to a friend — the money goes to help the poor.
In the Berlin Swissotel hotel, guests are sold Deep Sleep ("Deep Sleep") — a package of services that treats insomnia, depression and even helps to lose weight. This is a set of procedures developed by German somnologists based on scientific data on healthy sleep.
The package includes: a morning 30-minute treatment session with bright light, an invigorating herbal energy drink and aromatherapy, a day rest on a special physiotherapy lounger and evening procedures that promote going to bed (inhaling mountain air, lavender and geranium scents and a relaxing herbal drink). The owner of the "Deep Sleep" package falls asleep on an audio pillow, which recreates binaural rhythms useful for the brain. The price of the service is 199 euros per night.
The Canadian Drake Hotel has a large set of pleasant services: in addition to romantic "rose petals", chocolate and wine, customers are offered an assortment of sex toys to choose from in the room. The section titled "Pleasure Menu" lists a dozen and a half accessories: from a "naughty, cheeky suede whip" to a "train of bright feathers" that can be teased and tickled. Naturally, all sex toys are disposable, cost from $ 8 to $ 600.
The world's first perfume bar has opened in Berlin's Ritz Arlton Hotel. Customers are offered a wide range of cocktails made on the basis of world-famous flavors by local bartender Arnd Heissen.
The drinks repeat the smells of Giorgio Armani, Yves Saint Laurent, Guerlain and other popular brands. It is noteworthy that the recipes are not kept secret and are described in the "perfume menu". The price for a cocktail is 11-14 euros.
The AKA Central Park hotel chain resembles an adult camp. Live It program! it implies that, while living in a hotel, you will learn everything that you did not have enough time for in ordinary life: learn to dance tango and cook chocolate souffle, take lessons in painting, theater, circus art, surfing, horseback riding and photography.
Among the exclusive offers: sleep school, sound therapy and the "Reboot" program, which includes a wide range of services — from rejuvenation procedures to a complete change in appearance.
Several hotels in the Netherlands, including the Carlton Ambassador, provide assistance and support to couples wishing to divorce. Usually, the family visits on Friday, during the weekend, the specialists of the DivorceHotel company help them settle all the legal, economic and psychological aspects of the divorce: come to an agreement on the division of property, custody of children, properly issue all documents, stay friends. Ideally, by Monday, the guests leave, being divorced and happy. The creator of this service, Jim Halfens, plans to expand the number of hotels with which his company cooperates to a global scale. The service is already available in New York. The cost of divorce proceedings in the United States this year is about $ 5,000 (4,500 euros) and depends on the complexity of the case.
South African hotels have their own exoticism. In South Africa's Limpopo province, near the town of Polokwane, there is a Protea Hotel Ranch Resort offering a unique option — a walk with lions.
Close communication of tourists with predators takes place under the supervision of a guide who has 15 years of experience working with lions. A walk with wild cats, according to the organizers, attracts the attention of people from all parts of the world, has good recommendations from their clients.
However, squeezing lions, do not forget that in Tanzania alone, about 70 people die every year from the attacks of the kings of animals. Although hotel lions have been accustomed to humans since childhood, caution does not hurt.
In Nicaragua, at the Mukul Beach Hotel, Golf & Spa (Rivas), you can experience ancient Ayurvedic rituals that were practiced by Indian and Tibetan hermits and sages.
The menu of procedures that help purify the aura, enlightenment and transition to nirvana includes massage of active points on the face, herbal wrapping, traditional Ayurvedic massage and the sacred ritual "Shirodhara" with an effect on the so-called third eye. You can select all the options at once — this procedure is called "Nirvana — indulgence".