Unusual Life

This is an amazing set of guest residences located in Taiwan. Where Hello Kitty Hell sees pink, I see a charming and unique vacation spot.

Uni-Resort site in Taiwan

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Here’s a very red room we stayed in last August at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California. They named it the Tack Room. I had red leather wall covering, red leather bedspreads, red stained wood walls, pink marble pedestal sinks, and lots more red stuff.
I wonder who’s staying there this Valentines Day?

See our full set of photos from the extraordinary Madonna Inn

The Madonna Inn has 109 unique theme rooms where you can stay, as well as multiple odd over-the-top dining environments. You can/should see photos of all 109 rooms here.

Click "Tour Our Rooms Online" at the top right, and then the "Next " button under the photos to tour through each room.

The hottest parties in Vegas aren’t at the clubs. They’re by the pools.

Nestled in a corner past the Mirage’s general pool area, beyond the Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat and down a winding concrete path, is Bare, the hotel’s exclusive, adults-only pool. Shrouded in greenery and teak paneling, the velvet-roped entrance is guarded by an employee who checks IDs.

Pools Gone Wild

If you’re looking for truly off-the-wall accommodations, look no further than Woodlyn Park, in Waitomo, New Zealand, where three different motels thrill vacationers: a 1950s freighter plane (said to be one of the last Allied planes to leave Vietnam); a 1950s rail car that sleeps six; and a hobbit motel (allegedly the world’s first) dot the landscape of a working farm a few minutes from the Waitomo Glow Worm Caves. You can choose to sleep in the plane’s cockpit or tail, the train itself, or the circular-windowed rooms of the hobbit hotel. Woodlyn Park itself is also the beneficiary of some renown, given it hosts the Kiwi Culture Show, a unique New Zealand attraction involving sheep shearing and interaction with native animals.

Hobbit Motel

There’s a hotel out there to satisfy most every curiosity—whether you’re into marine life, wildlife, or Eskimo life—but we’ve narrowed the choices down to ten stand-out properties ranging from low-cost to luxe. So say goodbye to so-so lodging and catch your zzz’s in one of our favorite offbeat hotels. Pick from a 1950s freighter jet, a former prison cell, a treetop lodge, a onetime royal haunt, and more.

Offbeat Hotel Photo Tour

Dog Bark Park Inn is a bed & breakfast guesthouse inside the World’s Biggest Beagle. Guests enter the body of the beagle from a private 2nd story deck. Some of the dog’s decorative furnishings are carvings by Dog Bark Park chainsaw artists Dennis & Frances. Inside and up another level to the head of the dog is a loft room with additional sleeping space plus a cozy alcove in the muzzle.

At Dog Bark Park Inn sleeping in the doghouse is a good thing!

Dog Park Inn

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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

Here’s a very red room we stayed in last August at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California. They named it the Tack Room. I had red leather wall covering, red leather bedspreads, red stained wood walls, pink marble pedestal sinks, and lots more red stuff.
I wonder who’s staying there this Valentines Day?

See our full set of photos from the extraordinary Madonna Inn

The Madonna Inn has 109 unique theme rooms where you can stay, as well as multiple odd over-the-top dining environments. You can/should see photos of all 109 rooms here.
Click "Tour Our Rooms Online" at the top right, and then the "Next " button under the photos to tour through each room.

No explanation,no location, just pictures of weird hotel rooms.

Via Sellsius:

The Woodpecker Hotel in Vasteras, Sweden is perched 43 feet up a 130 year old oak tree like a lone nest. It’s the creation of Mikael Genberg, who also designed the Otter Inn, a hotel which floats on Lake Malaren.

More strange accommodations on Unusual Hotels of the World.

Eve’s Garden is an organic Bed and Breakfast and Ecology Resource Center, located in the high mountain desert of West Texas, at the gateway to Big Bend National Park, in Marathon, Texas. It features a research level organic gardening demonstration site and an urban hacienda, combining to provide a comfortable Bed and Breakfast environment and a conversational forum to address issues regarding the ecology.

Treehouse lodging slideshow

One-time Russian gangster Nikolai Sutyagin’s home is certainly unusual. The eccentric former convict’s seemingly accidental 15-year project begun in 1992 stands 13 floors, 144 feet high. He claims he was only intending to build a two-story house - larger than those of his neighbours to reflect his position as the city’s richest man.

Read the story here.

This boat, made from a plane, reminiscent of a mobile home gone houseboat, has a rich history as a Boeing 307 Stratoliner from the 1930’s and historic connections to an unlikely pair of characters, Howard Hughes and Jimmy Buffett. Read more about Desdemona’s Rocket Ship / The Cosmic Muffin here.

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Unusual accommodations in Austria lacking the customary European charm. But extra points for creativity…

Sewer Pipe Dream Hotel: Pay-As-You-Wish, from sellsius°

Quote from Best Places to Stay in Hawaii “This is one of the more unusual places to stay I have ever seen…If you want a bit of mystery and imagination in your vacation, and little stories lying in wait around every corner, you’ll appreciate it here. It’s enchanting, rather like you’d expect a hobbit’s house to be.”

The Hobbit House is located on the The Big Island in a breathtaking setting above Waiohinu Village. Lush landscaping and tropical forests surrounding the estate offer quiet privacy and is not far from the sightseeing wonders of Volcanoes National Park and the bountiful sights and flavors of Kailua and Hilo.

Hobbit House is located 60 miles, about a 1 1/2 hour drive, from the Kona and Hilo airports and 1/2 mile up a jeep trail away from the highway noise.

Hawaii Hobbit House