Cruise Liners - Hotels With a Difference

Hotels are becoming increasingly more elaborate and extraordinary, but as more and more people are demanding something different from their holidays. Bar and perhaps a gym and swimming pool, a dining room, a hotel was just a regular building with lots of rooms, at one time.

The hotel even houses a marine biology laboratory and a cosmetic surgery practice. Both of which break the surface to allow open-air events; an auditorium and a ballroom, 780 per room per night and boasts 220 guest suites, 2, 300 million Hydropolis will cost roughly £ the £. And where else but Dubai for this feat of hotel engineering? The latest craze to hit the travel world is the underwater hotel.

So start saving now, it's due to open in 2009! 000 per person; 15, room prices are set to be around £. And even a wedding chapel, 3000 square foot rotating restaurant, poseidon will offer a library. Located amidst a vibrant coral reef spanning 5000 acres, fiji is constructing their own Poseidon Mystery Island. But the Hydropolis is by no means the only underwater hotel.

175 per night; prices are around £. And a bar where drinks are served in glasses made of ice, sauna, hot tubs, canada hosts a nightclub, the Ice Hotel in Quebec. Ice hotels have also been more popular over the last decade, keeping with the water theme.

The IceHotel gets re-built as the previous year's ice perishes, every year. And has been operating since the 1970's, the first ice hotel was actually built in Sweden. But the Canadians weren't the first to make use of ice as a tourist trap.

The Exploranter can sleep 28 people and has a kitchen and hot showers, made from a converted Scania truck and trailer. Chile and Argentina, the Exploranter is one such hotel which travels around Brazil. Why not stay at a mobile hotel, and for those who don't like staying in the same place? Giving the guest a different view every morning, some have entire blocks of suites that revolve, some have sections that revolve. And in trees, there are hotels built underground. Hotels are being built to suit just about every terrain and concept.

The only limit is your pocket. You're almost guaranteed to find a hotel to match it, whatever you're into.