Secret hotels of the world: elite bunkers, airships and hobbit lairs (21 photos)

If you prefer a secluded holiday away from crowded tourists beaches, then you definitely can not resist these hotels. All of them appeared in the new British program "The Most Secret Hotels of the World", dedicated to "exploring the most hidden and remote hotels on the planet, from underwater shelters to lonely houses in the desert, from dwellings on rocks to treetop huts.





1. Caerwenforth Cottage, Wales Stone cottage in the rocks, formed more than 500 million years ago.



2. False bunker, Monmouthshire, Wales. WWII bunker war, built to shoot down German bombers from track of immediate strategic goals. Now it's luxurious, elite hotel.





3. Burgh Island Hotel, Devon, England. When it first opened in 1929, the hotel attracted the cream of society of the 1920s: among its famous client was Earl Mountbatten of Burma, playwright Noel Coward and aviator Amy Johnson. Today guests come here to enjoy art deco glamor. However, maintaining the operation of this hotel is not easy. task, especially as it depends on the daily tides...



4. Hotel Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita, Matera, Italy. it the ancient settlement on the top of the cliff is considered one of the oldest permanently inhabited places on earth. The hotel is located in caves dug to a depth of 30 meters, and is distinguished by "monastic simplicity": no televisions, mini-bars and electricity, and for lighting are used candles.



5. Tree hotel, Harads village, Swedish Lapland. Below one of the seven structures that make up the tree hotel. In transmission tell why and how these “completely different forest miracles".



6. Hotel Shinta Mani Wild, Cambodia. This hotel represents a complex of 15 tents in the depths of the wild and is only accessible after a three hour drive from Phnom Penh. The hotel can only be accessed by cable car 400 meters long.



7. Windmill in Clay, Norfolk, England. Luxurious, a hotel steeped in history with ten rooms, where more than once stars of the world scale stopped.



8. Hotel Jumbo Stay, Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden: This the world's first hotel in a Boeing 747. The largest passenger aircraft from ever built at the time of its creation, it was derived from operation in 2002 and opened as a hotel with 32 rooms in 2009.



9Mashpi Lodge, Ecuador This hotel is located on the 17 000 hectares of tropical forest at an altitude of 1200 meters above sea level. Construction was a logistical challenge, not least because the architects tried to preserve the unique habitat and create an eco-hotel so that visitors can experience the beauty of this terrain.



10. Wadi Rum Bubble Luxotel, Jordan. An unusual complex transparent "bubble" tents, which are more like space ships on Mars than luxury housing in the desert. Food and supplies here have to deliver through 330 kilometers of arid desert every week, and water is delivered every day in extreme heat from a distance of ten kilometers."



11. Denend Dairy Farm, Aberdeenshire, Scotland: Secluded boutique hotel in a place where for centuries agricultural workers came to pick barley.



12. Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort, Urho National Park Kkonen, Finnish Lapland. The resort is spread over a huge area an area of six and a half square kilometers and is private houses scattered throughout the forest. It's 65 ultramodernnyh arctic glass igloos with panoramic views of the northern lights.



13. Free Spirit Spheres, Vancouver Island, Canada. Deep in undergrowth, on a plot of five acres, is a unique hotel from balls suspended from trees. For owner and designer Tom, former power engineer and boat builder, these areas are an alliance technologies for building tree houses and sailing boats.



14. TWA Hotel, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. Hidden away in the hustle and bustle of John Airport Kennedy. Its interiors are inspired by the jet era of the 1960s with notes of the 21st century.



15. Garvo House, Kinbrace Village, Sutherland, Scotland. This is the most a remote hotel on the British mainland, which makes managing it a particularly difficult task. The fact that he is completely cut off from national energy system and water supply, it only complicates it.



16. Kolabryn Eco Lodge, Skinskatteberg, Sweden. This hotel described as "a rustic resort of 12 hobbit-like huts that are copies of those built by people who produce charcoal, back in the 1800s." This primitive resort has no electricity, no plumbing. Guests are shown how to make a fire to cook food, and pump water for the shower.



17. Harlingen Harbor Crane Hotel, Netherlands. It was originally working crane, which was used until 1996 for unloading timber cargo from Scandinavia. "Hotel" with a height of 17 meters consists of one bedroom, living room and kitchen. The only room that has changed - this is a control room in which guests can rotate the crane 360 degrees to choose the view - be it the Wadden Sea or a bustling city Harlingen.



18. Alila Jabal Akhdar Resort, Oman. Stunning five star $52 million minimalist hotel disguised as landscape.



19. Airship, Dreamnin, Scotland. Dreamnin is one of the most western points of the British mainland, the nearest city is located in five hours round trip. So this mini-hotel is “the best a refuge for those who want to escape civilization."



20. Glacier Hotel Grawand, Val Senales, Italy. In Italy, on over 3,000 meters above sea level, on top of a glacier located Glacier Hotel Grawand - a real Mecca for lovers of skiing and tourists in search of adrenaline. This is the highest mountain hotel in Europe, and every inch of this Alpine-style hotel has been designed with kind.