14 Strange Stylish & Amazing Hotels in Great Britain

If your mental image and 'jolly old England "and the rest of the United Kingdom is mainly full of stuffy royals, sweet food and cow pastures, you are missing out on stunningly colorful, joyfully wacky big picture. In addition to its abundant, completely different points of interest and cultural traditions, the UK is packed pleasure, hip, stylish, and unusual places to stay, from freewheeling Gypsy camps to castles, which please the fans, a certain boy wizard. 15 hotels, bed & breakfasts and vacation rentals include the glitzy high-fashion boutique hotels, a goofy tourist traps and a few hidden gems.
Mad Bear Hotel, Beaconsfield, England

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If more than in the upper allure and luxury is your bag, Crazy Bear Hotel chain, where you need to stay when visiting England. Fur-lined, gold-plated, torch-Laden rooms are only the beginning, others have a leather floors, mirror-tiled ceilings and tall brass bathtubs right next to bed. Some might say that the swim line between outrageously nice and showy, but they are certainly a unique experience. That Beaconsfield is unapologetically wild place is very conservative town, which is located in a modest 15th century building in a 60-acre farm 20 minutes for the city of Oxford and 45 minutes in London.
The Pavilion, Hyde Park, London, England

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Describing him as "a fashion rock n 'roll hotel', Hyde Park, Pavilion no qualms boast of its many celebrity guests on its website, who included supermodels Karen Elson as groups like Duran Duran and Hollywood royalty like Leonardo DiCaprio. Even her out there for themed rooms, like Casablanca Nights and Honky Tonk Afro, the most surprising thing about this chic London hotel the price, which starts just under U.S. $ 100. Hotel belongs to a young brother-and-sister team who dreamed up all 30 rooms and rent them out regular high profile photo shoots.
That spell the Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Received visions dancing in your head Hogwarts Although there are many old castles converted to hotels Great Britain, nor have interiors quite as magical as this is, respectively, after "spell" Edinburgh. Popular with celebrities and wildly demand and charm of the castle, and is famous for its richly decorated, theatrically baroque rooms, as his critically acclaimed restaurant. Book far in advance to enjoy one of the hotel, 8 guest rooms, which feature ornate fabrics, renaissance-style paintings, victorian baths, Fireplaces and even hidden rooms.
La Rosa Gypsy Camp, Whitby, England

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If you are a free spirit with a sense of adventure, England-in you receive covered with a Gypsy caravan hotels, including 'La Rosa campsite Extraordinaire', where visitors can stay processed, irreparable houses like Gypsy wagons and circus tents . Paying tribute beauty and environmental sensitivity of its setting, the North Yorkshire Moors »National Park, the camp is using only candles and fairy lights at night and has limited facilities such Composting Toilets and showers on the converted byre. "We want to hope that being green does not mean that you can not be Comfy have a laugh or eat chocolate cake, says the owners of their site.
40 Winks, London, England

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Internationally acclaimed interior designer David Carter-house in London has long been fertile place for photo shoots, but Carter still feels, if this area, a 1717 Queen Anne townhouse was underutilized. So the designer decided to open two small guest rooms are used for photographers, stylists, art directors, designers, buyers, models and others, the entertainment industry, who need to access the crash site during the works in London. Such a boutique hotel without staff 40 Winks home away from home.
Hotel Fronlas, Kardifum, Wales

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Cute and modern, the hotel Fronlas in Brecon Beacons »in Kardifum National Park, Wales. Owners, Eva and Owain Huw are passionate about sustainability and have crafted their own boutique hotel, with careful thought for the environment, as well as aesthetics and comfort. Powered by 100% green electricity with solar panels that heat the water that Fronlas also has organic linens and fresh flowers, and serves local organic cuisine.
George Hotel, Farnborough, England

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Constructed to form a propeller plane, the pilot of the hotel, which is located in the Tag Farnborough Airport, not kitsch but sleek, elegant and businesslike. The simplicity of design hotel, inspired by aircraft Aesthetics minimalist fittings in apartments, which cater mainly to corporate customers. Eschewing the tackiness, it can come to a 'theme, the pilot chooses subtle route with a very white and old photos, antique aircraft.
Appleton Water Tower, Sandringham, Norfolk, England

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Stay in a historic water tower that Appleton of Norfolk, which was built in 1877 with the foundation stone laid by Princess of Wales. You can have her room, including glass-walled terrace at the top, all of you, enjoying an open fire in Fireplaces. You can even bring your dog.
Malmaison Oxford Prison Hotel at Castle, England

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For 125 years - as recently as 1996, guests at Oxford Castle were not there voluntarily. They were arrested. Today, travelers pay good money to spent the night locked between the walls. The Malmaison Oxford Castle hotel has transformed what was once a dingy prison a luxury boutique hotel filled with plush linens and fresh-cut flowers. The hotel has retained the names of different parts, including the «C Wing," where prisoners were once punished, "Governor's House" and "homes Correction".
Hotel Missoni, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Hotel Missoni is that every bit as fashionable as you want to expect one of Europe's top design houses, and Missoni-the iconic patterns do not let you forget for a moment, who crafted the interiors. The hotel is located just outside the Old Royal mile city, and the doormen will be great you Missoni-designed kilts. City views from upper rooms are quite fun.
Old Railway Station, Petworth West Sussex, England

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Will remain the coach or sleeping car restored historic station in the old station hotel West Sussex, England. Station house offers a spacious apartments with vaulted ceilings, and the carriage rooms are tad tighter, but just as charming.
CitizenM, Glasgow, Scotland

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Guests love Glasgow affordable luxury CitizenM, that does not skimp on design details, but does not cost fortune, too. Hotel cut costs and made the construction easier and more environmentally friendly by prefabricating all guest rooms, which are futuristic feel. Red, black and white color scheme runs throughout the public areas, and large-scale works of art catch the eye in different rooms. And the spirit of 'belonging to the locals », CitizenM placed a large steel grate street-side, which holds the record grooves of the song, I belong to Glasgow.
The lighthouse, Llandudno, Conwy, Wales

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Stunningly beautiful, the beacon hotel Llandudno offers a picture, for which Wales is famous - ancient stone structures, emerald grass and rocky cliffs overlooking the sea.The lighthouse was built in 1862 from limestone and the huge amount of Canadian pitch pine, and use up to 1985. Stay keeper's room, dramatic nautically-themed room pine paneling and the captain's wheel, or even more beautiful lamp room, which once occupied the fiber before removed. 

House in the clouds, Thorpeness, Suffolk, England

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It is the epitome of a cozy English country style - up to tens of meters into the air.House of Representatives of the Clouds in a field once the old water tower, but remodeled in the vacation rental is like an ordinary farmhouse perched on top. With 5 bedrooms, 3 baths and high-ceilinged great room overlooking the Thorpeness golf, this rental is perfect for families and large groups.

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9 Weirdest Hotels of The World

1. Ice Hotel

Built each winter only to melt in spring, Icehotel in Sweden is built entirely of ice and snow, which covers the walls, fixtures and furniture.

Luxury suite for two. Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden) Photo `bjaglin

Try falling asleep in this church. Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden) Photo `bjaglin

No ice hotel would be complete without ice garage. Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden) Photo `Köttbullekvist

2. Cave hotelThe Cappadocia region of Turkey draw hordes of amazed tourists with its capricious landscape filled with fairy chimneys, including buildings, including hotels, are engraved.

A Dr. Seuss wonderland. Göreme, Cappadocia, Turkey) Photo: curious expeditions

Göreme, Cappadocia, Turkey) Photo: Adam Franco

High-class cave dwelling. Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey / Photo: Jason Devitt

3. Forest hut HotelFor the nominal value of travelers to Kolarbyn, Sweden, may be left to fend for themselves, and roughing it in a rustic forest cabin. Drops of food are optional.

Photo: Tom Williams

Kitchen / Photo: Li-Lian Williams

4. Survival pod HotelThis bright orange MOD pods based in The Hague was part art project, before capitalized as a brave guy. Number of packages with basic survival food rations and sleeping bag, something a bit more James Bond-esque.

Photo `Roel

5. Capsule HotelSpecial discount hotels in Japan, guests arrange their luggage into the rooms, and then automated tickets little cubicles, that leaves enough room for bedding and television monitor on.

Tokyo, Japan / Photo: Massa

Tokyo, Japan / Gallery Jose Andres Monroy-Hernandese

6. Sewer pipes Hotel Austria answer capsule hotel, Das Park »Hotel has the same building to buy a ticket at an automated machine, but, allegedly, guests pay to what extent they want. Fair, considering it a concrete sewer pipes. 

Das Park Hotel, Ottensheim, Austria (Photo: foam 

7. Floating and underwater Hotel Is pronounced Inn floats to a kilometer away Lake Malaren as a solitary island, and the bottom surface lying in a bedroom with Panoramic view underwater. 

Dry dock. Lake Malaren, Vasteras, Sweden (Photo: Jonas Wallinder 

8. Hotel jail And nine age-old historical residence originally empress Matilda, the Oxford Castle was also in jail. Now, this is a hotel and shopping complex. 

Photo `Miladus Edenensis 

Photo: Jim Fruchterman 

9. Yurt Hotel Yurts to hold a special symbolism in the Central Asian culture, adorning a coat of arms of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan flag. 

Nayrn, Kyrgyzstan / Photo: Rob 

Naryn, Kyrgyzstan / Photo: Rob

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13 Most Unique & Strangely Stylish Hotels of Japan

Japan, thousands of years of traditional culture clashes with almost futuristically modern vibe bigger cities like Tokyo to present a variety of traveler's dream come true experience. The fusion of many people responded to the hotels, which range from peace ryokans, or traditional inns, so unabashedly out there love hotels "with amazing themed rooms (from a stranger abduction fantasy: You're in luck.
Hoshino Resort Risonare, Kobuchizawa

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Designed by Italian architect Mario Bello in 1980, «Risonare 'peaceful getaway in the Japanese Alps at the foot of Mount Yatsugatake. It is a modern interpretation of medieval walled cities in Italy, and is managed with sustainable eco-tourism in mind.Complex includes a stunning oval "leaf Chapel ', and a reflective dining room and party area is marked as« Brillare', what Klein Dytham Architects, making this resort a popular choice for weddings and other special events.

9 hours a capsule hotel, Kyoto(Images via: 9hours.jp)

Capsule hotels, where your room "is literally a hole in the wall, resembling a corpse in the morgue panel - can be found all over Japan. And while you can, of course, remain among snoring salarymen, you could have more fun in 9 hours shell Hotel, a modern version of this tsatsrarzhek no frills beds for rent. With the minimalist, almost all white, aesthetic, and some unexpected perks like 'digital entertainment options', 9h is a pleasant way to experience Japan on a budget.

Love Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Kanagawa(Image by: Tokyo times)

Japan is packed with thousands of love hotels' hotel services that can be rented by the hour. Not only illegal activities, the hotel rooms can only be rented by couples and are often used quick private getaway. Options for themed fantasy rooms virtually endless, from the kinky to downright bizarre. Queen Elizabeth Love Hotel Kanagawa near Tokyo, is one of the most popular. Formed is known as Queen Elizabeth ship and painted in hues of pink and red, the love hotel features a strange tribute film titanic statues with the characters Jack and Rose perched on the bow. Most rooms have a naval theme here.

Bayside Marina Hotel, Yokohama(Image via design boom)

Stacked, Prefabricated modular units are modern "cottages" at Yokohama Bayside Marina Hotel, designed by Yasutaka Yoshimura architects. IN cottages are each equipped with a unique angle so that each guest has a slightly different point of view of the bay.

Hotel Pamplona, ​​Osaka(Image via the morning news)Another love hotel, the Dotonbori district of Pamplona in Osaka, definitely one-of-a-kind, and not an attempt to find you in many other countries. Hotel unapologetically Sex-focused, and it seems very unusual themed rooms to party room 'resembling a torture chamber and S & M room round caged bed. Not timid or weak of heart!

Fujiya Inn, Ginzan hot spring, Yamagata(Images via: chictraveler)Wants to stay in a hotel that is still quintessentially modern Japanese, without all the kitsch and the bizarre Decor: 8 room 4-star Fujiya Inn is proud of the relaxing location on the Ginzan hot springs in Yamagata prefecture. Crafted almost entirely of wood, the hotel is serene and inviting, ideal as a stress-busting leap between long soaks in the springs.

Screen boutique hotel, Kyoto(Images via: tablethotels)

Somewhere between sleek modern hotel and ryokan in Screen Hotel Kyoto Protocol, which is hybrid boutique peppered with shoji screens and tatami mats, but is dominated swaths of delicate white and unexpected pops of bright color. Every tenth guest rooms was designed by different artist. The blocky concrete exterior is far from cry to the surrounding city and look at traditional Japanese culture, but an interesting and entertaining fashion and, unlike many ryokans, provides Still Life Western visitors who are not used to sitting on the floor constantly.

Peninsula Hotel, Tokyo(Images via: tokyobling, peninsula.com)

This is not a light wallet, but the Peninsula Hotel will offer guests the luxury of that, who are able to stay there. Ignoring the Imperial Palace, the Peninsula is ideally located near the commercial centers of Tokyo. Developed its foreign recalls traditional Japanese lantern, and inside you find bamboo sculptures, many cherry blossoms and local art.

Hoshi Hokuriku, the world's oldest Inn, Awazu(Image via LA shi.jp)Japan is often called among the best 5 ryokans, Hoshi Hokuriku has a more powerful reason to stand out, it has been verified as the oldest hotel in the world. It opened in 8 th century and was operated Hoshi family for 46 generations incredible. The hotel itself has 100 elegant and understated rooms with private hyuratune sited in the center of gardens, decorated with red and white check pattern in the mother in Hokuriku region. Guests can enjoy a number of foreign hot springs, as well as two closed hot springs baths and family baths, which can be privately reserved.

Benesse Art Site Naoshima(Images via: benesse-artiste.jp)Ginger Japanese art, architecture and luxurious accommodations, all at the same place at Benesse art website Naoshima. Yes, you can actually stay the night in a museum buildings designed by renowned architect Tadao Ando and gaze out the window at the stunning sunrises and sunsets a 6 accessible rooms. All look out on the open-air art and yards away from the works of Monet, Andy Warhol and other famous artists. Particularly notable is "the oval", a guest suite is built into a hill with a huge circular skylight and reflecting pool.

Alpha Resort-Tomamu, Shimukappu(Images via: desicolours.com)Japan even has its very own ice hotel, a resort where you can curl on a frozen slab of sleeping bag and marvel at the novelty of your surroundings. Alpha Resort-Tomamu's ice village offers a steaming hot tubs include giant hunks of ice, and almost all the ice dining room, even your dinner plate is made of frozen water.

Hotel Loire, Osaka(Images via: jaunted)If your deepest fantasy are abducted and experimented on by extraterrestrials, you are in luck. Osaka 's Hotel Loire (yep, another love hotel) has a very special room that is either outrageously interesting and quite funny strange or terrible depending on your point of view. Other kooky fantasy hotel rooms include a physician office and a copy of the subway car.

Dotonbori Hotel, Osaka(Images via: mshades)Three minutes Namba Station in the center of Osaka, Dotonbori hotel has a go, that with respect to location and reputation is a popular destination to travelers on business or vacation. And while the interior is almost as eye-popping, like many other hotels in Japan, it's the exterior that really grabs people's attention in his wonderfully strange gigantic statues.

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14 Quirky, Artsy & Elegant Hotels in Netherlands

Ever had a hankering to sleep in octave, or swimming pool with underground medieval vaulted ceiling, hotel experiences in the Netherlands running a royally posh with a sore hip contemporary design is very cool and quirky details catch your eye.Whether you are headed to Amsterdam's unofficial party capital of Europe-or tulip-covered peace of rural Holland, the 14 hotels, hostels and inns will make you feel at home.
St. Christopher's at Winston, Amsterdam(Images via: winston.nl)That Winston calls itself "an interactive museum of modern art", where each room has its own quirky theme, the hallways are full of pictures and even the bathrooms function as galleries: Budget hotel / hostel in the red light district that is viable and WinstonYoung: The guests can choose the eye-popping neon rooms robot sculptures on the wall, or the tamer black and white rooms filled with photography. In addition to the hotel restaurant and bar, there is a private beer garden overlooking the Red light alleyways and "shameful" night club called the right side Winston Kingdom.

Zenden, Maastricht(Images via: zenden.nl)

Once I walk through the ordinary-looking doorway in Maastricht Hotel Zenden you leave the old world behind the brick and cobblestone, and enter the White House all the angular modernity. Located inside what once three separate townhouses, nine-room hotel was renovated to its current status in 2003, but retained their incredible underground swimming pool and its medieval arched ceiling. According to the architects, Zenden went against the trend hyper-unique artsy hotels "Welcoming the guests, without any unnecessary expressiveness in furnishings or finishes to walls and surfaces, so that they feel free to adapt this flexible space their own personalities. "

Differences tram Inn, Hoogwoud(Images via: controversy.nl)Despite the name, there nothing controversial about the trams-to-guest-rooms in controversy tram Inn in Hoogwoud. Bright and vivid, the apartments, found a farm, consisting of two incorrigible trams, and full-sized railroad cars which have already been converted into six guest rooms packed full of fun objects like recycled tire sink basin and a table made of traffic signs.

Qbic Hotel, Amsterdam(Images via: qbichotels.com)It may be "cheap chic and no frills», but the Qbic hotel does not skimp on style. This budget hotel in the heart of Amsterdam in the high tech, but cheap, and the earlier you book the cheaper rates. It is a "pod" hotel, but unlike the other capsule hotels, such as Japan, it features a full-sized rooms - the "pod" is freestanding aluminum unit is in the center of each room containing a double bed with a working / dining table on one end, and bath to the other.

Citizen M, Amsterdam(Images via: citizenm.com)

Citizen M Amsterdam Airport opened in 2008 and represents another stylish addition to the list of impressively designed the city budget hotels. New, even trendier location opened in 2010 in Amsterdam proper, offering 215 modular rooms that fit the function as much as possible to 150 square feet. A high-tech handheld 'MoodPad' controls the lighting, television, and temperature window blinds and shower and toilet are contained within a separate plexiglass tubes (so, if you are an exhibitionist, stay with someone you know really well.

Stayokay Hostel, Rotterdam(Images via: archdaily)Rotterdam 's Cube Houses so cool-looking, that the residents were pestered by tourists hoping to glimpse an internal affairs on a daily basis. Now that the tourists can stay in their units because the house is turned into a 'Stayokay hostel. Hostel has two dorm style and private rooms. With the tilted design of the cubes, nabbing one of the upper rooms will be a memorable experience.

De Vrouwe Van Stavoren(Image by: inhabitat)THE De Vrouwe Van Stavoren every oenophile's dream: type wine lover that savors the smell completely healthy red wine will be shed in the sky in this unusual hotel is made to save the wine casks. Each casks contain two narrow single person beds, and attached buildings containing bathrooms. Stavoren small port city is located in the northern region of Friesland, which has its own language, and the spring of his fields are abloom the infamous Dutch tulips.

Inntel Hotel, Zaandam(Images via: dezeen)A nod to the traditional architecture of houses in the region, Zaandam's Inntel hotel seems to stack houses the overlapping green fasadner. Style "buildings" properties in fasadner ranges in the notary's residence of a worker's cottage. Eleven floors tall with 160 rooms that Inntel features a swimming pool, as well as the health center with Finnish sauna and Turkish bath.

Hotel V Frederiksplein, Amsterdam(Images via: hotelv.nl)

Is stylish and budget-conscious' Hotel V », as it is known to place a modern and minimalist but still cozy and warm. Each guest room unique, design details include pebble stone room with a bathtub walls, rubber front desk. But perhaps the biggest draw Hotel V is its central location, making it convenient for all of Amsterdam's hottest spots.

Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam
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First Hotel immigrants and then to a prison, Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam is hosting guests from different sort: travelers, of course. Famous Netherlands architecture firm MVRDV outfitted interior of this historic building in his 2005 re-opening as a showcase of modern design. 116 rooms each so unique is that they assessed individually, one to five stars. Naturally, the five-star rooms, where Lloyd really shines.Beds per room even eight!

THE Dylan, Amsterdam(Images via: dylanamsterdam.com)

Most often stated fashionable Dylan Hotel in Amsterdam and converted 17 th century theater with 40 individually designed rooms, which come in five styles. Each topic - Kimono, loft, Klassbol, Zensation red and Zensation White is elegant and understated with vulnerable rays and simple lines. It is located right along the canal for the view that the unique Amsterdam.

Capsule Hotel, The Hague(Images via: Unusual Ö world hotels)

If the flood hits in the Hague, you must secure one of them wacky «survival pods. But of course, turn off chance that disaster is hardly the only reason to stay the capsule hotel, which consists of a series of 12 foot bright-orange floating pods moored in a port city in the center. Constructed in the oil rigs 1972 in the capsules range from super-simple one person to falsify the "luxury" pod with sheepskins, champagne, DVD player and disco ball. Sounds like a party.

Hotel De L 'Europe, Amsterdam(Image by: salva del saz)

Hotel De L 'Europe is a five-star hotel with an impressive history and a classic look that Prime waterfront property is located directly under kilometers of great tourist sights, as Anne Frank's house. It is worthy to point people will, perhaps, a little old-fashioned "But anyone who PINES Amsterdam for the Old World may prefer a bustling boutique hotels, which cater to hip crowd. The house of one of the most exclusive restaurants in Amsterdam, golayin transfer, and recently expanded to include high-dollar specialty rooms.

Aircraft Hotel, Teuge(Image by: hotelsuites.nl)

When you step out of one plane in particular, after a long international flight, perhaps the last thing you want to do is embark on yet another plane. But for those who just can not get enough aircraft interiors, aircraft Teuge Airport hotel is actually quite a cool place to stay. "Cold War" years, this East German cockpit airplane is not preserved, and the rest was turned into a guest suite with a modern kitchen. Asleep in bed at the tail plane and waking up to that little round windows will show you feel on a very pricey private jet.

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