Hotel made of containers

• Hotelier Travelodge is building a pop-up hotel in London constructed from shipping containers from China. According to the news service Reuters, the modules were imported from China with bathrooms installed, with windows fitted and furnishings added once the containers have been put together. Modules similar to shipping containers will be the base of the hotel to provide an inexpensive means of housing. Travelodge hopes to use pop-up, recycled hotels at events such as the Olympics, where an extraordinary number of people would gather.
  
  

Sleep in a wine cask

• In Stavoren, the Netherlands, a hotelier has created guest rooms out of 14,500L wine vats at the Hotel Vrouwe van Stavoren. The casks are built into a larger structure, with the cask forming the sleeping room. It holds two twin beds, and the room connects to a small sitting room and bathroom in a more traditional structure.
  
  

Liberty Hotel in Boston

• 
  
  In Boston, the famed Charles Street Jail has been transformed into a luxury hotel in the middle of Boston. The granite building, which was constructed in 1851 to house Boston's criminals, was closed in 1990 when it was deemed out of date. Developers and architects partnered to create the Liberty Hotel, which preserved the building and aspects of the jail, including some cells in one of the bars.
  
  

Das Park Hotel

• Das Park Hotel was created by Andreas Strauss to provide temporary housing next to the Danube River in Ottensheim, Germany. Guests stay in repurposed concrete drain pipes that have skylights and wooden floors with bed pallets. Strauss promotes the hotel as an uncomplicated escape from urban life. For more information, email info@dasparkhotel.net.
  
  

Woodlyn Park, New Zealand

• Two hours from Auckland, Woodland Park was a working farm that become a tourist complex, with an underground Hobbit hotel. Located near the Waitomo Caves, the owners took advantage of tourist traffic and put old vehicles to good use by creating guest rooms out of an old plane, a train car and a decommissioned ship.