Not for the faint of heart
Need a "reboot"? All inclusive in Turkey and fish racing in Egypt no longer seem like an ideal option for a vacation, but are you still not ready to go into the jungle without a compass? There are options that will shake up and provide an acceptable level of comfort. "Dom" has prepared a photo selection of hotels, the rest in which is guaranteed to be remembered for a long time.
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Shanty Hotel
1. Does it look like a typical slum, which is better for a tourist to bypass for a few kilometers? In fact, this is the Shanty Hotel - a five-star hotel near the South African judicial capital of Bloemfontein. Its slogan is "The only slum in the world with heated floors."
2. The furnishings in the rooms, which are more like garages, also correspond to the concept: furniture and a minimum of appliances, everything looks like it comes from the 80s. The toilet is outside. You can cook on a traditional African stone oven (one for the entire hotel complex). But the floors are really heated.
3. The cost of one "garage", which can accommodate up to four vacationers, is about $ 75 per night - quite democratic for the declared stardom. Breakfast is about $10 per person. Free Wi-Fi and spa facilities are available on site. The interior is slum, but the treatments themselves are quite in line with a higher-end hotel.
Dasparkhotel
4. Is living in a garage not original enough? There is another option: spend a vacation ... in a sewer pipe. The project was invented in Austria and is designed for budget tourists and visitors to large open-airs. The first such hotel is already hosting guests on the banks of the Danube, near Linz.
5. The pipe is two meters in diameter and weighs nine tons. Small windows are located on the ceiling; the room accommodates one bed.
Malmaison Oxford
6. Holidays in prison, perhaps, today can hardly be called extravagant. This is quite bourgeois entertainment, which is confirmed by a wide variety of "prison" hotel projects of the "five-star" level.
7. For example, a night at the Malmaison Oxford Hotel, housed in a Victorian prison, costs from 125 pounds or more.
Alcatraz
8. The German hotel Alcatraz is more democratic - a room can be rented from 50 euros. The prison building, which now houses the hotel, was built in 1867. Guests can choose an acceptable level of exoticism: Alcatraz has both camera rooms and quite standard hotel rooms.
Liberty
9. The walls of Boston's Charles Street prison remember many famous "guests" - for example, Malcolm X, as well as participants in the world-famous trial, the Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, sat here. Now the building houses one of the most luxurious hotels in the world.
10. The cost of the stay is appropriate - about $ 550 per night. In the rooms, guests will find a jacuzzi and a martini: after the change of function, the building has become much more comfortable for its inhabitants. It's funny that the hotel now bears the name Liberty - "Freedom".
crazy house
11. Much more affordable than an elite prison sentence, as it turned out, rest in a lunatic asylum. Vietnamese guest house Crazy House offers double rooms for only $30 per night.
12. By the way, it was built by the daughter of the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Although you can hardly guess this, looking at the strange building with its twisted and sometimes dizzying spaces.
13. It is possible that the worldview of the architect of the building (the very daughter of the Secretary General) Dang Viet Nga was significantly influenced by the fact that she spent 14 years in Russia, and 13 of them within the walls of the Moscow Architectural Institute. One way or another, the solutions that are applied in Crazy House, according to the guests, would be the envy of Gaudi and Hundertwasser.
Propeller Island City Lodge
14. Berlin's Propeller Island City Lodge offers thrill-seekers a great choice. For example, fans of vampire sagas and gothic stories can comfortably spend the night ... in a coffin.
15. The hotel is named after Jules Verne's novel "The Floating Island" and the variety of interiors is truly fantastic. There are rooms with furniture nailed to the ceiling, there are rooms with a space distorted by many mirrors or stylized as a brothel. So the room in the photo is still quite boring for Propeller Island City Lodge.
16. Hotel guests can spend the night in a lion's cage (though without lions) or under a guillotine - a stylized lamp. And they can levitate all night. In the latter case, you should choose a room with a "flying bed" and a sloping floor. The cost of rooms is quite "lifting" - from 70 to 115 euros per night.
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