Not Your Typical Hotel Rooms
If you’re looking for a unique holiday that offers more than the basic accommodations, this list is for you.
From tee-pees and treehouses to jail cells and airplanes, the world is full of quirky hotels that offer truly unique experiences.
Here are 22 of the coolest hotel rooms on the planet.
Stay in a Wigwam
The Wigwam Motel, San Bernardino, California
This unique roadside motel offers rooms shaped like tee-pees. You can park directly beside your room, which is only steps away from the outdoor pool and fire pit.
Marcin Wichary, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
The Wigwam Motel
The rooms resemble typical motel rooms on in the inside, and have modern features like cable TV, wifi, and air conditioning.
Spend the Night in Jail
The HI Jail Hostel, Ottawa, Canada
Set in a restored jailhouse, you get the full of experience of sleeping in a jail cell—well, almost. Although they’ve added some comfort, the cell block you’ll stay in still has stone walls and iron doors in cells that are over 150 years old.
Mike from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
The HI Jail Hostel
Each jail cell room offers comfortable bedding and lockers. Family sized rooms comes with bunk beds. Bathrooms are shared, wifi is free, and a continental breakfast is served.
Mike, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sleep in a Bubble
Finn Lough Resort, Northern Ireland
These bubble dome rooms are set back in the lush forest of Northern Ireland. The transparent walls give a complete 180-degree view of the entire surroundings.
Finn Lough Resort
Each bubble dome sleeps two adults on a king-sized bed and has a private bathroom with shower. Larger bubbles are available that include a separate bath bubble where you can soak under the stars.
Stay in Otherworldly Apartment
Quetzalcoatl´s Nest, Mexico
This serpent-style building is a private housing complex with only a handful of unique apartments. It is situated within a natural ecosystem and follows a minimalistic flow to allow visitors to immerse themselves with nature.
Quetzalcoatl´s Nest
Each apartment has 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, living room, kitchen, and laundry room, and has a modern feel.
Sleep in an Airplane
Cockpit Cottage, Costa Rica
The Cockpit Bungalow is part of an airplane that has been converted to a breathtaking bungalow that overlooks the Pacific Ocean.
Cockpit Cottage
The plane’s interior is Costa Rican teak paneling from the cockpit to the tail and rooms come fully equipped with typical hotel amenities.
The resort offers 3 swimming pools and access to stunning Costa Rica beaches.
Stay with Giraffes
Giraffe Manor, South Africa
Giraffe Manor is a 140-acre Giraffe sanctuary where guests can actually dine with the giraffes. The luxury resort offers large windows where giraffes greet the guests for breakfast, sticking their heads right in.
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Giraffe Manor
Luxury accommodations are plentiful and offer all the typical hotel amenities and more.
Stay in a Cube House
Cube House, Rotterdam, Netherlands
These oddly shaped units are actually full houses that some people rent out as an Airbnb.
Not only does the outside of the home boast an unusual look, each room is oddly shaped with angled walls and interesting skylights.
Cube House
The rooms are laid out like a typical Airbnb, with bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and living area. Each cube house has its own private entrance and parking.
Sleep in an Igloo
Kakslauttanen Resort, Finland
This unique resort offers both glass igloos and traditional snow igloos for guests to choose from. The igloos are spread out among the vast forest with nothing but nature for miles.
Kakslauttanen Resort
Their world-famous glass igloos offer a stunning view of the Northern Lights, and offer a king-sized bed and private bathroom.
The resort itself has a world-class spa with saunas and ice baths, and two restaurants.
Sleep Underwater
The Manta Resort, Tanzania
The underwater room at the Manta resort is a completely submerged hotel room that also offers an above-water living space on a private floating island.
The only way to get to your room is by speedboat.
The Manta Resort
The entire building is situated in the middle of the beautiful turquoise water, where the top half is above water and the bottom half (the bedroom) is below.
The bedroom is surrounded by windows where you will get an up-close and personal experience with sea life.
Sleep Under the Fish
The Conrad, Maldives, Rangali Island
Similar to the Manta Resort, except this one offers a luxury two-level residence with a master bedroom submerged over 16 feet below sea level in the Indian Ocean.
The Conrad, Maldives
The master bedroom sits inside a 180-degree curved acrylic dome giving a full view of sea life above you as you sleep, and the upper level includes a private pool and a 24-hr private butler.
Sleep in a Double Decker Bus
Bertrams, Devon, UK
Bertram’s offers a unique experience where you can sleep inside a repurposed 1950s-themed double-decker bus.
Bertrams
The bus sleeps 5 people, comes with a hot tub, a mini library, and is situated on a farm with free-roaming alpacas and goats.
Stay in a Train Car
Crowne Plaza, Indianapolis
Not only can you spend the night in an actual train car, but with active tracks running beside the hotel, you'll actually feel and hear the sounds of passing trains.
Missvain, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Crowne Plaza
The pullman style rooms offer a 1920s flare with all the typical hotel amenities. And the hotel also offers an indoor pool, fitness center, and on-site restaurants.
Missvain, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sleep in a Tee-pee
Dreamcatcher Tipi Hotel – Yellowstone, Montana
Not far from Yellowstone National Park you’ll find these 22ft high tee-pees equipped with heaters, cozy décor, and a view of the mountains—offering a unique glamping experience.
Dreamcatcher Tipi Hotel
The Tee-pees are made from a thick canvas material, giving the ultimate tee-pee feel. A king-size tee-pee can sleep 5 people, and comes with an individual indoor firepit, and luxury amenities.
Each night the property throws campfires complete with complimentary smores and wine.
Stay in a Castle
Ashford Castle, Northern Ireland
A traditional royal castle, Ashford offers every conceivable luxury with elegant style and comfort.
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Ashford Castle
Each of the 83 rooms are decorated with a unique royal style, including chandeliers, bed canopies and in-room bars.
Enjoy a royal stay with on-site restaurants, world-class spa, horseback riding and more.
Jlahorn, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Stay in an Ice Hotel
Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
This Swedish hotel is completely made out of ice—including the rooms. Each winter the hotel is sculpted brand-new and then left to melt back into nature come spring.
Icehotel
The room holds a temperature of -5 to -8 degrees Celsius. The bed you sleep on has a thick mattress that rests on a wooden base, surrounded by ice. The bed is also covered with reindeer hides and you sleep in a thermal sleeping bag.
Stephan Herz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sleep inside the World’s Largest Dog Sculpture
Dog Bark Park Inn, Cottonwood, Idaho, United States
Dog Bark Park Inn is the world’s largest beagle sculpture made into a hotel room.
Frances Conklin, CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons
Dog Bark Park Inn
It sleeps 4 and offers a full bathroom, kitchenette, air conditioning, a continental breakfast, and all other typical hotel room amenities.
Sleep in a Car
V8 Hotel, Böblingen, Germany
This automobile-themed hotel offers unique car-themed rooms each with furnishings made from real car parts.
Robert Basic, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
V8 Hotel
The hotel even offers the V12 Mercedes Suite, which spans two floors and includes a private sauna and a roof terrace.
Robert Basic, Wikimedia Commons
Stay in a Mountain
Montaña Magica, Huilo Huilo Reserve, Chile
This fairy-tale experience has you sleeping in a dreamy mountain-shaped hotel in the Andes. Inside the mountain lodge boasts charming log-cabin style furnishing.
Christian Córdova, FlickrMontaña Magica
The 9 fairy-tale inspired rooms are built into a mountain that has a rushing waterfall at the very top. The resort also features an indoor pool, spa, on-site restaurant, and a games room.
Camp Indoors
Hüttenpalast, Berlin, Germany
This small hotel in Berlin combines the comfort of a standard stay with the fun of an indoor camping site, for those who don’t love traditional outdoor camping.
It offers unique retro-style accommodations in the form of vintage caravans and cozy cabins.
Hüttenpalast
Each room has its own unique design and is set in one of two large camping halls with shared bathrooms. Guests also have access to an on-site bar and a charming backyard garden.
Sleep in a Jumbo Jet
Jumbo Stay, Stockholm, Sweden
At Jumbo Stay you will stay in a full-service hotel inside of an actual decommissioned Boeing 747 jumbo jet—including the cockpit.
trolvag, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Jumbo Stay
Guest rooms vary in size and layout to accommodate up to four adults, some with private bathrooms.
Reservations include breakfast, airport shuttle, and a shared balcony on one of the plane’s wings.
Albin Olsson, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sleep in a Treehouse
Treehotel, Harads, Sweden
Treehotel offers guests their own private treehouse that is a seemingly invisible mirrored cube. Actually, there are several options for design, including a UFO, a modern cabin, a birds nest (made of twigs), a biosphere, and more.
Detlef Schobert, FlickrTreehotel
Most tree houses sleep two adults, and offer secret balconies, a bathroom, lighting and basic hotel amenities.
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Stay in an On-Land Cruise Ship
Sun Cruise Resort & Yacht, Gangneung, South Korea
Experience all the fun of a cruise without the sea sickness. The luxurious on-land cruise ship features a saltwater swimming pool overlooking the ocean and even plays wave sounds to give you the full cruise experience.
parhessiastes, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sun Cruise Resort & Yacht
The Resort offers a piano lounge, a karaoke bar, a nightclub, two restaurants, and other fun attractions—including a top-floor revolving bar.
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