The World’s Most Unusual Hotels

    If you fancy spending the night in a desert cave lodge, or the idea of bedding down beneath the waves is appealing, then these amazingly innovative hotels are for you.
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    Frank Hoppe/Rex FeaturesThe V8 Hotel features beds made from real cars or motoring themed rooms. V8 Hotel, Stuttgart, Germany. Motor fans will be revved up by a hotel which lets them sleep in classic cars. The V8 Hotel offers rooms based around motoring themes - so you can pretend you're at an American drive-in by sleeping in a Cadillac or even slumber in a Mercedes car wash. There is also a room designed like a Morris Minor garage or you can snooze in a Herbie-style Volkswagen. Based in Meilenwerk automotive museum, the 4-star hotel also boasts shops revolving around the motorcar, an exclusive theme restaurant and an event hall. Rooms range from Euros 120 to EurosLars Stroschen/Rex FeaturesThe Padded Cell Room. From top to bottom and all around the bed, everything is upholstered with green leather. A kingly or queenly room where guests can hear their own heart beats.Neale Haynes/Rex FeaturesThe galley of the Jules Undersea LodgeAndre Maslennikov / IBL/Rex FeaturesSunset, Lake Malar, Sweden
    Denis Oudendijk/Solent News/Rex FeaturesInterior of one of Denis Oudendijk's Oil rig survival capsule hotel rooms. Holidaymakers stay in extraordinary new hotel rooms - each made from an oil rig survival capsule. The pods are kitted out with lights, survival suitcase and sleeping bags and guests can choose between simple hammocks or a normal bed. Creator Denis Oudendijk even created one with a James Bond theme, which comes complete with silk sheets on the bed, champagne and a vodka martini bar. Tourists with a sense of adventure are now clamouring to spend the night in the rooms, which measure just 14ft across.Patrick Frilet/Rex FeaturesThe Underground Gaming Rooms at the Desert Cave HotelPhoto Japan / Robert Harding/Rex FeaturesRows and stacks of sleeping compartments along one corridor at the capsule hotel in Osaka, JapanKPA/Zuma/Rex FeaturesThe world's first 'Jumbo Hostel' at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport. The airplane, a decommissioned model 747-200 jumbo jet built in 1976, was last operated by Transjet, a Swedish airline that went bankrupt in 2002. It was originally built for Singapore Airlines and later served with legendary Pan Am and was purchased by hotelier Oscar Dios. The 'hostel' boasts 25 rooms with a total of 85 beds including a cockpit suite which still has many of the planes original controls still in place. The hostel is built like any house, subjected to the same demands on climate control and isolation. It adheres to all common energy standards. Heating is achieved with an air-air inverter.
    Solent News/Rex FeaturesHotel built from a refurbished Boeing 727 fuselage, Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa RicaF1 Online/Rex FeaturesThe fuselage hotel. Holidaymakers wanting to feel like true highflyers can now relax in a luxurious new hotel suite - inside a vintage Boeing airliner. The exclusive two bedroom suite is housed inside the fuselage of a 1965 Boeing 727 which was destined for scrap. Jutting out from a hillside, the Boeing offers views of the ocean and the jungle from balconies built on each wing. Inside the meticulously refurbished airframe are two wood-panelled bedrooms, a kitchenette, dining room and living area and two bathrooms. It costs between 200 and 250 pounds per night to book the unusual suite on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica's Manuel Antonio National Park
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