Historic Hotels

The best examples of historic hotels:

Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg - is connected with it a large number of historical facts of tsarist and Soviet Russia.
Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam - gained popularity during the Potsdam conference, which was attended by Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin.
Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai - has witnessed and is the home of the Indian independence movement.
Waldorf Astoria in New York - is associated with salad "Waldorf" (Waldorf Salad), a recipe which was invented at the restaurant in 1893.
Raffles Hotel in Singapore - a place where the cocktail was invented by Singapore Sling.
Hotel Sacher in Vienna - the place of invention of chocolate cake Sachertorte, first baked in 1832.
Hotel de Paris - place the invention of French crepes with liqueur and different sauces (crèpe Suzette).
Hôtel Ritz in Paris and Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg - became famous thanks to the James Bond films.
Hotel Carlton and Martinez - riveting world attention during the film festival in Cannes.
Ritz Hotel in London - luxury hotel has inspired the expression putting on The Ritz - "dressed in the latest fashion." In 1929 was written the song Puttin on the Ritz for the same movie with the same name, which was released in 1930.
Algonquin Hotel in New York - in 1920. routinely collected by organizations Algonquin Round Table, consisting of New York writers, poets, musicians and other artists.
Hotel Chelsea in New York - the object of several scandalous lyrics Nancy Spung, better known as the girlfriend Sid Vicious, musician group Sex Pistols.

Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg

Hotels-Trees

Several hotels in the world are constructed so that the living trees are their foundation or elements of structure and design.

Costa Rica Tree House in the natural park Gandoca-Manzanillo in Costa Rica - completely wooden hotel, consisting of two rooms, built around the trunk of a huge tree.
Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park in Kenya - a few rooms of the wooden hotel built around the crown of the Indian type of game platforms.
Ariau Towers near the Rio Negro in Brazil - a modern hotel complex built on pillars so that the crowns of tropical trees are like inside the rooms, and around them.
Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey - small wooden bungalows located on the branches of trees.

Cave hotels

Several hotels in the world are built in caves:

Desert Cave Hotel in Coober Pedy (Coober Pedy) South Australia.
Cuevas Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in Guadi, Spain.

Ice and snow hotels

The Ice Hotel in Yukkasyarvi (Jukkasjärvi), Sweden - melts every spring and in December, rebuilt;
Mammut Snow Hotel in Kemi, Finland - operates within a snow castle;
Lainio Snow Hotel in Yullase (Ylläs), Finland - is part of the snowy countryside.

Underwater hotels

Rooms are equipped with underwater hotel underwater. While this phenomenon can not be called popular, but it catches the attention of wealthy guests.

Utter Inn in Lake Mälaren (Mälaren) in Sweden;
Under construction Hydropolis hotel in Dubai will be the first underwater hotel in the Gulf, to get into the rooms of Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida, you must dive under the water with diving equipment.

Other unusual hotels

Library Hotel in New York - each of its ten floors are named and decorated according to Dewey Decimal Classification: A general class, "Philosophy and Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences," Language "," Natural Science and Mathematics "," Engineering "," Art "," Literature and Rhetoric "and" Geography and History. "

Burj al-Arab in Dubai is built on the artificial island and its shape resembles a sail. The former ocean liner RMS Queen Mary on the coast of Long Beach in California is still using first-class cabin as the expensive hotel.
Jail Hotel Löwengraben in Lucerne, Katajanokka in Helsinki and the Four Seasons in Istanbul - was a prison in the past, and now are welcoming tourists in its rooms.

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