For some the accommodations on a trip are merely the place to leave your luggage and rest your weary bones after a day of seeing the sights. With the help of Cynthia Ross Cravit, of 50Plus.com , we found some hotels that are the holiday.
Originally Published on Sympatico/MSN.ca, June 10, 2009.
Dasparkhotel, Austria
Spend your next vacation in a drainpipe
Perhaps of the world’s unusual hotels, this is the most unusual of all. Austria’s Dasparkhotel consists of three 10-ton reinforced-concrete drainpipes measuring 6.5 feet in diameter. Situated along the banks of the Danube in Ottensheim, Austria, these ‘rooms’ are stripped down to the basics: A double bed, light, and sleeping bags. (Toilets, showers and a cafeteria are available in the nearby hotel complex.) (credit: www.dasparkhotel.net)
Stay in a cave
Kokopelli’s Cave Bed & Breakfast, New Mexico
This B&B is down to earth — literally
Originally built as a geological research office, the manmade dwelling is carved into a cliff face 70 feet below the surface.
While reminiscent of the nearby Anasazi cliff ruins, this cave room offers modern creature comforts such as a flagstone hot tub, cascading waterfall style shower, authentic Southwest furnishings and a deck for incredible sunsets and stargazing. (credit: www.bbonline.com/nm/kokopelli/)
Revolving hotel
Take in a revolving – view of the Turquoise Coast
This luxury hotel is also the world’s only revolving hotel. Set on the southern coast of Turkey and overlooking the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean, the modern, circular Marmara Antalya completes a full revolution every seven hours.
(Note: Be sure to reserve your room in this part of the hotel, as there’s also a non- revolving building behind it.) (credit: www.themarmarahotels.com/The-Marmara-Antalya)
Tower above the Rheinland
Tower high above the Rhineland
Rising high above Cologne, this international luxury hotel was once the largest water tower in 19th century Europe. In 1990, French designer And Putman transformed it into an elegant 78-room hotel.
Classified as a heritage site, the timeless modern design still manages to preserve the water-tower architecture and a sense of refuge and protection. (credit: www.hotel-im-wasserturm.de)
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