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architecture
Giant Boner Space Hotel? No Thanks, Says Barcelona

Pop quiz: what does a country on the brink of economic collapse, with dozens of unfinished buildings dotting its countryside, really need? A monstrous, phallic space hotel, of course! Read More >>

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architecture
Don’t Mistake This Ski Resort For the Actual Mountain

The Slow Horse is a hotel in a tiny ski town, which is fitting. It mimics its mountainous Northern Italy setting so closely, it wouldn't belong anywhere else. Read More >>

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design
How to Build an Ice Hotel

In the tiny arctic village of Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, dusk lasts most of the day at this time of year. Against the dramatic and ever-evolving pink and purple sky sits a structure that looks like a cross between a sleek nightclub and an igloo from outer space: Lapland's storied IceHotel, the world's largest and longest-running luxury hotel made entirely of frozen water. Read More >>

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A Tool For Bagging Super-Cheap Hotel Rooms Is Your Bargain-Basement-Sleazy-Affair-Enabler Deal of the Day

Today's deal is so much more than a one-off offer. Instead it's a money-saving tool that you can bookmark and use again and again whenever you're looking for cheap night in a hotel. Read More >>

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security
Hacked Keycard System Brings String of Hotel Break-Ins

Earlier this year a team of researchers announced that it was possible to hack the keycard systems used in millions of hotel rooms using £40 worth of parts. Now a recent spate of hotel break-ins is being attributed to the attack. Read More >>

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Millions of Hotel Room Locks Have a Glaring Security Flaw That Won’t Get Fixed

With less than £50 worth of parts and only a few seconds, millions of hotel room keycard locks around the world can be hacked and unlocked by robbers-cum-hackers trying to break into your room. The good news? The security flaw can be fixed. The bad news? No one wants to pay to fix them. Read More >>

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Nothing Tells Your Guests They’re Not Welcome Like Making Them Sleep In a Pod

Do you deal with visiting family members during the holidays that more than overstay their welcome? This year try putting them up in one of these Podtime tubes, they'll quickly get the message that maybe they should have booked a hotel instead. Read More >>

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Hotel Boss Faces 50 Shades of Religious Fury After Replacing the Bible With Popular Porn Novel

Popular filth title Fifty Shades of Grey has found itself a fan in hotel owner Wayne Bartholomew, who has risked angering God by replacing the Bible in his hotel rooms with copies of the awful porn book. Read More >>

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architecture
You Will Never Sleep Through This Hotel’s Gigantic Alarm Clock

At first glance it looks like some hotel in Belgium has sacrificed floor space for a massive four-sided novelty alarm clock to attract tourists. But in reality, what you're seeing is actually the top of a clock tower with a hotel built around it. Read More >>

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design
This Chinese Culture Centre Looks Like It’s About to Blow Away

This proposal for the Guangzhou Daily Group Culture Centre, designed by IAPA Design Consultants, one of the best Australian practitioners in architectural design, is the recent winner of the excellence award in the International Architecture Design Competition. Read More >>

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architecture
This Hanging Hotel Made of Recycled Materials Is Definitely Weird, and Maybe Wonderful

AirHotel, a sustainable and mobile hanging hotel designed by a group of Belgian artists, is actually a collection of six unique pod-like rooms, each with its own theme. May 10 -- June 2, AirHotel will be set up at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival in the UK, where a stay in one of its wacky rooms will begin at about £35 per occupant. Read More >>

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design
For Your Next Holiday, Book a Night In One of These Lovely Shipping Containers

Lately, a lot of energy has been put into coming up with unconventional ways to use shipping containers. Funny, that. The latest comes from a British company called Snoozebox whose modular, portable, two-tier hotel can be set up in just 48-hours. Read More >>

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architecture
How Sweet is This Subterranean Shanghai Hotel Going to Be?

At the foot of the Tianmashan mountain, at the site of a now-abandoned quarry, the InterContinental Shimao Wonderland will stand 18-storeys tall—16 of them below ground! Read More >>

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Spend Your Summer Holiday In an Erupting Man-Made Volcano

This year don't waste your valuable holiday time lying on a sunny beach in Spain. Instead, spend your week off trapped inside a volcano-shaped hotel that could erupt in a deluge at any minute. Read More >>

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japan
Where to Check In After You’ve Checked Out

The rising death rate in Japan has lengthened the average wait for cremation to roughly four days. That's a long 96 hours to let you lay there and ripen. So what do you do after shuffling off this mortal coil? You get yourself to a corpse hotel, obviously. Read More >>