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Beckham Creek Cave Haven

Arkansas, United States

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Always wanted to get closer to nature?! Well it doesn’t get any closer than this! The Creek Cave House was built with the philosophy of keeping the natural beauty untarnished and thus took almost four years to complete.

The House is located inside a cave, and has natural living cave walls and ceilings. Not exactly the all-natural kind?! The House boasts of a pool room, a state of the art kitchen, large living areas, central heating and dehumidifiers that eliminate any suggestion of dampness!

The cave is located in the Buffalo National Country in northern Arkansas, United States surrounded by the raw beauty of the Ozark countryside. It is accessible by winding country lanes or if you have the dough, by a chopper.

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Exploranter – Overland Hotel

São Paulo, Brazil

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Tired of the same ol’ hotel with the mint on the pillows? How about a hotel on wheels! Mr. Flavio was tired of the traditional tourist trips offered to visitors in Brazil; so he decided to do something different, and different he did!

The Exploranter is a 25-ton Scania truck and trailer which houses a lounge, a kitchen and 28-berth sleeping quarters. It takes you to the backroads of Brazil, places you won’t find in the glossy travel brochures. Launched by Falvio at São Paulo s adventure sports fair, and it is now one of the most unique traveling tours in the world.

They allow you to customize your trip by offering a variety of activities like hot air ballooning, horseback riding, cycles off road rally, motorbikes, quads, trekking, historical routes, gastronomy, vineyards, archeology, fishing, rafting, bird watching, spelunking, rodeos and even scuba diving!

The tour ranges anywhere between three days to three weeks depending from group to group. For just 200 reais (60$) a night you’ll visit some of the most amazing undiscovered locations in Brazil!

Everything from eating fried crispy ants to visiting slave dungeons in the middle of coffee plantations the Exploranter is guaranteed to quench all your adventure needs!

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Hotel Puerta América

Madrid, Spain

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Ever wondered what a hotel in 2050 would look like?! The Hotel Puerta América in Madrid built at a cost of $94 million is an architectural wonder. Brain child of the French architect Jean Nouvel, each of the it’s 12 floors – everything from the elevator lobbies down to the blankets and bathrobes – have been conceived by various powerhouse architects and design studios.

Comprised of 308 standard rooms, 22 junior suites and 12 suites, the hotel is a blend of unique architecture styles and ideas, which are as awe-inspiring as they’re disorienting. Located at Avenida de América, one of the busiest roads to the city center, it’s just a cab drive away from The Prado Museum and trendy shops of the Salamanca neighborhood.

With rates starting from 250$ p/n to 3,900$ p/n for suites, it’s bound register a page in your book of unforgettable locations!

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Ice Hotel

Jukkasjärvi, Sweden

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Who needs concrete when you have ice! The Icehotel is located in the village of Jukkasjärvi, about 17 km from Kiruna, Sweden or 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden.

The Icehotel is the biggest hotel of ice and snow in the world with an area of over 6,000 m.sq. It is constructed out of purest of pure clear ice blocks taken from the Torne River, which has an ice layer upto a meter thick during winters! The entire hotel exists only between December and April as it assimilates back with nature with the arrival of spring.

On its completion, the hotel features a bar, church, main hall, reception area and rooms and suites for over 100 guests to sit and sleep on blocks of sculpted ice in the form of chairs and beds. Every room and suite in the hotel is unique and is built from scratch every year. If you’re don’t fancy sleeping on frozen water, warm accommodation is available next to the hotel. Rates start as low as 1350 Kronor (172$) per person per night.

With unique sculptures and infrastructure year after year, the Icehotel is destined to give you a warm welcome to the frigid Arctic!

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Capsule Hotels

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If you’re Claustrophobic, then this set of hotels will have you running for the hills! The concept was started by Kisho Kurokawa and the first capsule hotel was located in the Umeda district of Osaka, Japan.

The “rooms” are enclosed fiberglass or modular plastic blocks usually 2 x 1 x 1.5 m. Just a tad bigger than a..coffin? Most of them provide you with a television, an electronic console and even wireless internet connectivity, though comfort space isn’t exactly their priority.

Washrooms are communal and many of the hotels provide restaurants, vending machines and pools. The hotels may have anywhere from 50 to 700 capsules stacked one on top of the other with stairs provided for access to higher level capsules.

Though it hasn’t gained too much popularity outside of Japan, Western variants offer larger accommodations with added facilities,

• StayOrange.com Hotel
• Yotel
• Pod Hotel
• citizenM

The hotels are not the most comfortable or entertaining, but at 16-34$ a night you can boast about having spent a night in a plastic box!

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