| People are quite used to see hotels, towering | | | | itself. Popular examples include the aptly-named |
| skyscrapers that loom over the city's skyline with | | | | Treetops Hotel in Kenya and the Ariau Towers |
| doors ajar for guests who would stay the night | | | | located in Brazil. As another example of a hotel with a |
| within one of their heavily-adorned rooms. However, | | | | pinch of nature, garden hotels evolved from being |
| there are other kinds of hotels all over the world, | | | | popular gardens to establishing an identity as a hotel. |
| each possessing something that will surely pique the | | | | The Gravetye Manor Hotel in West Sussex is one |
| imagination of anyone who wants to travel and | | | | such hotel. |
| experience different things. | | | | If there are towering skyscrapers, then there are |
| The first example is a hotel carved and sculpted out | | | | also hotels that are nestled underwater. To be able |
| of snow and whole blocks of ice-the aptly-named ice | | | | to enter some, like the Jules Undersea Lodge in |
| hotel. There are numerous ice hotels dotting the | | | | Florida, guests need to dive with scuba gear. There |
| globe, especially in places where the weather is apt | | | | were even plans to build a hotel with suites on the |
| to build one. Norway has a few, and other countries | | | | bottom of the Persian Gulf itself. Sadly, the project |
| like Canada, Finland, and Sweden have at least one. | | | | was cancelled a few years ago. Hopefully there will |
| The Icehotel in the Swedish village of | | | | be some in the future that are nestled on the sea |
| Jukkasjärvi is the world's first ice hotel, and | | | | bed. |
| travelers hoping to experience its cold comforts can | | | | Additionally, there are a few well-known cave hotels |
| gain access from December to April each year. | | | | in several locations around the world, with one in |
| Naturally, there's no way to keep ice hotels standing | | | | South Australia, another in Spain, and some in Turkey. |
| throughout the year, so each one is reconstructed | | | | These cave hotels have their structures built right |
| annually when the temperature is right. | | | | into cave formations, with some of them even |
| Another kind of atypical hotel is the capsule hotel, | | | | extending farther underground. |
| which was first developed in Japan. Capsule hotels | | | | There are indeed quite a number of unique and |
| are like standard hotels, with restaurants and other | | | | unusual types of hotels, each one with a character |
| facilities. The only difference is that there are no | | | | that breaks the mold of what we usually think of |
| rooms. Accommodations consist of stacked capsules | | | | when we say "hotel". Surely, these hotels offer a |
| able to be placed side by side and top to bottom up | | | | one of a kind experience that no skyscraper in the |
| to two capsules high. | | | | city can possess. If one finds him or herself near one |
| High rise hotels need not be limited to those with | | | | of these hotels, maybe it would be a great |
| foundations beneath concrete. How so? There are | | | | opportunity to experience these atypical places of |
| also treehouse hotels, utilizing the natural form and | | | | hospitality. |
| strength of living trees in the structure of the hotel | | | | |