Eye-Catching Hotels
From hotel lobbies flowing with water falls and awash with koi ponds to hallways hung with world-class art, today’s lodgings pull out all the stops to draw ever-distracted guests their way. In the hotel world, it’s all about separating yourself from the competition in order to fill beds and attract guests, who have more options than ever these days when it comes to where they spend their vacation and business dollars.
Case in point, the YOTEL in Midtown Manhattan, an affordable and stylish address that recently mounted a 30-foot-long LEGO installation in one of its public areas that encourages guests to add their own artistic touches with the available LEOGS as part of a fun, interactive art project on display here through March 2014. It’s an eye-popping move that has people talking, coming off the street to see it, and guests checking in, too, to be a part of the fun. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unusual moves hotels make with the goal of turning your glance their way.
For many hotels, it’s all about what’s on the outside that initially draws interest to a property. In the ritzy ski haven of Davos, Switzerland, it’s hard to miss the Stilli Park hotel, built in 2013, with its unusual oval shape that looks like a futuristic cruise liner and metallic materials. And travelers in Idaho – especially those of the canine-loving variety – would find it extremely difficult to bypass the Dog Bark Park Inn, a hotel shaped like a nine-meter tall beagle that’s decorated inside with a similar pup-inspired theme (dogs on the headboards, dogs on the pillows, you get the idea).
Pets, as you would expect, are welcome.
Re-purposing airplanes is another eye-catching way to get people to notice your hotel, apparently. In Quepos, Costa Rica, the Costa Verde Hotel counts a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 fuselage among the materials used in its construction. The wing of the plane is overhung with a deck that offers guests incredible views of the surrounding jungle canopy. And one of the most famous airplane hotels in the world is right outside of Stockholm’s Arlanda airport in Sweden at the Jumbo Stay, a permanently grounded jumbo jet with room categories that include quad dormitory beds and even a luxury suite in the converted cockpit (with killer pilot-style views of the nearby airport, of course).
And moving from high ideas to low ones, there are many hotels in the world that make an art form out of underground spaces with no views at all to attract the interest of potential guests. How genius is that now, really? In Sweden, guests at the Sala Silvermine hotel bed down some over 500 feet underground in hotel rooms built into one of the best preserved mines in the world. And in Arizona, after ogling the Grand Canyon by day, guests pay for some of the best non-views in the world at Grand Canyon Caverns Suite, a hotel that describes itself as having “the largest, oldest, deepest, darkest, quietest motel room in the world.” That room is 220 feet below the ground in a cavern space that nature took more than 65 million years to carve out. The largest dry cavern in the US, the room is completely dark and quiet due to an absence of all life (not even a fly, mouse or bat dwells here, enthuses the website). Eerie, yes. Unique? Absolutely. And tugging at your curiosity – one hundred percent! And that’s exactly what savvy hotel owners are banking on for drawing you in.
Case in point, the YOTEL in Midtown Manhattan, an affordable and stylish address that recently mounted a 30-foot-long LEGO installation in one of its public areas that encourages guests to add their own artistic touches with the available LEOGS as part of a fun, interactive art project on display here through March 2014. It’s an eye-popping move that has people talking, coming off the street to see it, and guests checking in, too, to be a part of the fun. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unusual moves hotels make with the goal of turning your glance their way.
For many hotels, it’s all about what’s on the outside that initially draws interest to a property. In the ritzy ski haven of Davos, Switzerland, it’s hard to miss the Stilli Park hotel, built in 2013, with its unusual oval shape that looks like a futuristic cruise liner and metallic materials. And travelers in Idaho – especially those of the canine-loving variety – would find it extremely difficult to bypass the Dog Bark Park Inn, a hotel shaped like a nine-meter tall beagle that’s decorated inside with a similar pup-inspired theme (dogs on the headboards, dogs on the pillows, you get the idea).
Pets, as you would expect, are welcome.
Re-purposing airplanes is another eye-catching way to get people to notice your hotel, apparently. In Quepos, Costa Rica, the Costa Verde Hotel counts a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 fuselage among the materials used in its construction. The wing of the plane is overhung with a deck that offers guests incredible views of the surrounding jungle canopy. And one of the most famous airplane hotels in the world is right outside of Stockholm’s Arlanda airport in Sweden at the Jumbo Stay, a permanently grounded jumbo jet with room categories that include quad dormitory beds and even a luxury suite in the converted cockpit (with killer pilot-style views of the nearby airport, of course).
And moving from high ideas to low ones, there are many hotels in the world that make an art form out of underground spaces with no views at all to attract the interest of potential guests. How genius is that now, really? In Sweden, guests at the Sala Silvermine hotel bed down some over 500 feet underground in hotel rooms built into one of the best preserved mines in the world. And in Arizona, after ogling the Grand Canyon by day, guests pay for some of the best non-views in the world at Grand Canyon Caverns Suite, a hotel that describes itself as having “the largest, oldest, deepest, darkest, quietest motel room in the world.” That room is 220 feet below the ground in a cavern space that nature took more than 65 million years to carve out. The largest dry cavern in the US, the room is completely dark and quiet due to an absence of all life (not even a fly, mouse or bat dwells here, enthuses the website). Eerie, yes. Unique? Absolutely. And tugging at your curiosity – one hundred percent! And that’s exactly what savvy hotel owners are banking on for drawing you in.
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