20 Unusual Hotels: Ice Suites, Treehouses, a Boeing 727 and Cave Rooms
Some hotels are worth the trip on their own. These twenty unusual places to stay range from ice suites carved fresh every winter in Swedish...
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Hotels: Distinctive Stays & What to Consider
An interesting place to stay can become part of the journey, from a setting close to nature to architecture that changes how you see a destination. Browse distinctive hotels and unusual accommodation stories, then look beyond the photographs to decide whether the stay suits your trip.
Consider the location, access, room arrangements and what is included. Historic features in our archive describe an earlier moment, so check current availability and facilities directly before booking. A memorable setting works best when the practical details fit too.
Start with Gili Lankanfushi, Maldives: What to Know Before Booking and Treehotel, Sweden: Choosing a Room Among the Pines.
Hotel Guest’s Bedding Creations and Housekeeper Notes in Azerbaijan
A business traveller staying at a hotel in Azerbaijan decided to brighten his long working stay with pillows and sheets. Each day he left a...
Infinity Pools in Pictures: 29 Resort and Natural Pools around the World
An infinity pool seems to pour straight into the view: a city skyline, a jungle valley, the Aegean caldera of Santorini or the open ocean. H...
Rosemont Hotel Dubai: The Twin-Tower Design With a Rooftop Rainforest
The Rosemont Hotel & Residences was one of the most talked-about Dubai designs of 2016: two towers rising from a shared podium, with an ...
10 Bali Resorts: Ubud’s Ayung Valley, Uluwatu Cliffs and the Quiet Coasts
Bali’s best resorts are defined by where they sit: on the rim of the Ayung River gorge near Ubud, on limestone cliffs above the Indian Ocean...
10 Beautiful Hotels in America: From Waikiki to Aspen
America’s most beautiful hotels range from a Waikiki beach classic and a rebuilt Victorian seaside grande dame to a desert retreat carved in...
11 Luxury Resorts Around the World, from Sveti Stefan to Atlantis The Palm
From a fortified island village on the Adriatic to an underwater suite in Dubai, these eleven resorts each pair a great room with an extrao...
Villa on Dunbar Rock: A Dive Resort on a Tiny Cay off Guanaja, Honduras
From the water, Dunbar Rock looks too small to hold a hotel. A white villa climbs straight up from a knob of stone in the Caribbean, its ter...
Subsix at Niyama: The Maldives Underwater Restaurant Six Metres Down
Six metres below the surface of the Indian Ocean, about 500 metres off the beach at Niyama in the Maldives, Subsix is a dining room with fi...
Cavo Tagoo Mykonos: Design, Cave Pools and Suites on a Greek Island
Cavo Tagoo is a five-star hotel set on a rocky hillside at Tagoo, on the edge of Mykonos Town, with whitewashed terraces that step down towa...
Skylodge Adventure Suites, Peru: Sleeping in a Glass Pod on a Cliff
Three transparent pods bolted to a granite cliff, some 400 metres above Peru's Sacred Valley: Skylodge Adventure Suites is one of the m...