"Hotel on stilts": the most dangerous hotel in the world is waiting for rich connoisseurs of the exotic

When choosing a hotel, most of us evaluate its comfort and the list of services provided. But there is a category of travelers who will never exchange extreme and vivid impressions for heated swimming pools, fitness halls and restaurants of national cuisine. The Frying Pan Tower hotel is designed for such lovers of adventure and those who want to take advantage of its modest facilities are always enough.

The Frying Pan Tower does not have a swimming pool or tennis court, but its guests can enjoy the freshness of the ocean and boast that they lived in the most dangerous place in the Atlantic Ocean. This is not an exaggeration, since the platform, raised above the ocean on supports, is located at the point where destructive storms most often rage. In addition, the ocean around the "hotel on stilts" is teeming with dangerous marine life, including several species of large sharks.

The hotel is located 50 kilometers from the coast of North Carolina and you can only get here by helicopter or boat. Both can be done only in favorable weather, which is very rare here. Sometimes guests of The Frying Pan Tower, for reasons beyond their control, can abuse the hospitality of their hosts until the weather is good.

Around the hotel there is only the endless ocean

The history of the hotel is no less interesting than the place where it is located. Once the platform with the tower belonged to the US Navy and served as a lighthouse on the approaches to the rocky shores of the East coast. In the late 70s, the need for the structure disappeared and it was abandoned.

The Frying Pan Tower Helipad

For a long time, the platform, blown by all the winds of the Atlantic, stood and rusted, until in 2010 it was purchased for $ 85,000 by entrepreneur Richard Neal. When the press asks the new owner of the lighthouse about why he decided to make such a purchase, Neil laughingly replies that as a child he dreamed of living in a tree house, and the platform on high supports is very similar to him.

The rooms in the hotel are like rooms in an army barracks

Richard had to invest a lot of money in order to give his purchase a residential appearance.  Currently, The Frying Pan Tower can accommodate 12 guests at the same time, offering comfortable single and double beds, a shower, Wi-Fi, a dining room, billiards and even a compact golf course. Extreme activities such as ocean fishing and spearfishing are also available.

Golf in the open ocean — a real exotic

The hotel's billiard room retains an army feel

The owner tried to keep the hotel's military flavor of the middle of the last century, so the atmosphere in the rooms is quite spartan. At the same time, guests do not have to experience hardships — hot water is available in the rooms around the clock, and electricity is provided in unlimited quantities by solar panels.

If you are not afraid of sharks, then a great catch is provided for you!

So guests of the hotel go to take ocean baths

What attracts tourists to this strange and not too cozy hotel, which creaks and sways during a storm? There are many advantages of living here. First of all, guests can count on the bottomless starry sky, which does not interfere with smog and street lighting. In addition, the hotel is one of the few places in the world where you can feel both the incredible silence and the roar of a destructive storm, and often for just one day.

Today, the hotel is not accessible to everyone. If a few years ago a room in it could be rented for $ 500 a day, now you need to buy hotel shares or make a donation for the reconstruction of the platform to stay here. Richard Neal claims that these measures are temporary and forced-the platform is gradually being destroyed and it becomes more expensive to keep it in order every year.

But if The Frying Pan Tower is the most dangerous hotel in the world, then the Swedish Kolarbyn Ecolodge is the wildest and most primitive.