A hotel where guests can only check in digitally because there is no longer a reception: Innovative concepts are also on the rise in Austria. If you look beyond Austria’s borders, you will find hotels where an unforgettable stay is guaranteed.
Not only can you travel on the night train, you can also spend the night in the nostalgic railway carriages on the grounds of the Ratzeburg Adventure Train Station in Germany.
A night at the Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort guarantees a fantastic view: guests sleep under a glass ceiling and look directly into the Finnish night sky. If you are lucky, you will see the Northern Lights.
Those who like it warmer are in good hands at the Costa Verde in Costa Rica: in the middle of the jungle, a Boeing 727 is hanging in the trees. The propeller plane from 1965 has been extensively restored and now serves as a hostel.
Martins Patershof in Mechelen, Belgium, offers 79 rooms, a spa area and a large lounge. The special feature: Visitors live in a former church and look out over the city center through stained glass windows.
Huge cacti in the room
Spend the night in a former prison: This is possible in the Liberty Hotel in Offenburg, Germany. People were imprisoned here until 2009, after extensive renovation work, guests have been accommodated since 2017. To this day, thick wooden doors are a reminder of the dark past.
All guests staying at the Crane Hotel Faralda in Amsterdam should have a head for heights: several suites have been set up in the converted crane, and the view of the Dutch capital is phenomenal. The brave can try a bungee jump from the roof.
It’s like being in the Wild West: that’s how everyone who stays at the Pioneertown Motel in the town of the same name in Southern California feels. Some of the rooms are equipped with huge cacti. More than 50 films and series have been filmed there. You can’t book the underwater hotel Poseidon Resort Fiji yet: This should be partly on land and partly under water. The plans envisage that individual rooms will be fitted with acrylic glass: guests should feel as if they were sleeping in the vastness of the ocean.
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