| Hotels may have begun by simply offering the weary | | | | swim - the chance to sleep with the fishes, in this |
| traveller a place to lay their head at the end of a busy | | | | extravagant project that began construction in 2005. |
| day, but in the interests of attracting more visitors, | | | | Getting cold or wet is not to everyone's taste, and if |
| some hotels have upped the ante, opting to become a | | | | you're looking for a stay that is out of this world, then |
| major tourist attraction in their own right. | | | | you may soon be able to look down on earth from |
| If you're looking for a really cool place to stay, you | | | | your hotel room. Genesis 1, the first step in the |
| can't go wrong with an ice hotel. These are temporary | | | | construction of a habitable complex in Space, was |
| structures made up entirely of snow and ice, which | | | | successfully launched into orbit in 2006 and is the start |
| attract visitors interested in novelty and unusual | | | | of the Bigelow Aerospace mission to build an |
| environments. The first and most famous ice hotel | | | | affordable human space complex that will be |
| was built in Sweden, but there are now several other | | | | accessible by the commercial section by 2015. Not only |
| ice hotels in Scandinavia as well as in Canada and | | | | would a space hotel offer guests incredible views of |
| Romania. Visitors eat from plates carved from ice, | | | | the Earth and the Moon, it would also offer the endless |
| drink from ice glasses and sleep on ice beds lined in | | | | entertainment of living in zero gravity. |
| deer furs which keep them cosy through the night. | | | | Of course, it may be many decades before space |
| If you hate the cold, but don't mind getting wet, then | | | | travel is cheap enough for any typical person to |
| why not try diving beneath the ocean for an | | | | afford, so if the ice has melted, you can't scuba dive or |
| underwater hotel experience. There is currently only | | | | you just want to keep your feet planted firmly on |
| one underwater hotel in existence - the Jules's | | | | Planet Earth, you can still enjoy a wholly unique |
| Undersea Lodge in Florida, which is more of a working | | | | experience at some of the world's top hotels. Swap |
| research station with rooms to rent, rather than a fully | | | | the novelty factor of ice hotels and underwater |
| fledged hotel. Scuba certification is mandatory and the | | | | abodes for a touch of opulence with a stay in a luxury |
| front door is 21 feet underwater. However, the world's | | | | hotel in Belgravia, London, for example, and you're sure |
| first luxury underwater hotel is being built in Dubai, | | | | to enjoy a memorable experience that really is out of |
| which will offer guests who do not dive - or even | | | | this world! |