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5 Strange Hotels

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Here are five of the most bizarre and strange places you are ever likely to spend a night.

 

The Dog Bark Park Inn, Idaho, USA

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Been a naughty boy? In this bizarre hotel you literally sleep in the doghouse. Created by a pair of “chainsaw artists”, this 12 foot beagle has got to be one of the most bizarre places to spend a night.

Das Park Hotel, Linz, Austria

Who would have thought concrete could be comfy? These renovated sewage pipes are, thankfully, clean and functional and sit on the banks of the Danube, making them a perfect post-industrial bolt hole.

 

The Hobbit Motel, Waitomo, New Zealand

These Lord of The Rings-inspired rooms invoke homely charms suitable for the most discerning of hobbits.

Propeller Island City Lodge, Berlin

Are you a vampire? Then this is the hotel for you. This unique hotel is one big strange art project and the coffin beds are only one part of it.

 

The Library Hotel, USA

This luxury boutique hotel in the heart of Manhattan has one obvious twist. Each floor is dedicated to a different category in the Dewey Decimal Classification system. For example, the ninth floor contains only books in the ‘900s’ of the Dewey system. It is a librarian’s, or avid book reader’s, dream.

The author, when he is not sleeping in coffins, likes to look  at strange and  weird pictures .

How to be a good father – Amazing Family Holiday Ideas

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Wondering how to be a good father?  One of the best ways is to take your kids on an amazing family holiday.

Here are some family holiday ideas that are a bit different from the conventional beach holiday.  They are not cheap family holidays  but they are enormous fun.

Stay in a Star Wars cave  in Tunisia

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There have been underground houses in Matmata in Tunisia as far back as the 4th century BC. In more modern times the dwellings have featured in the Star Wars films.

Watch the delight on their faces as they see that these caves are where Luke Skywalker lived before set of on his epic adventure to find his father.

Go Camping in Trees in Brittany France

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These tents hanging from trees are part of a camp site in Plum’Arbres, Brittany.  This is the most bizarre, family camping you are ever likely to experience. Its not every day you can behave like a bat and sleep hanging from the trees. It might sound weird but with a floor made of catamaran netting, and customised mattresses, these tents offer a very comfortable night’s sleep as you sway gently in the breeze.

Stay in a UFO hotel in a Swedish Forest

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Imagine walking through a forest and stumbling across a UFO. Its sounds like something out of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, but for you and your children it could really happen and what’s more you could actually spend a night on board the extra-terrestrial ship.

That’s because this bizare 50s-style flying saucer situated near the town of Harads, Sweden, is actually a hotel.

It is spread out over two storeys with room for four would-be space travellers.

 

Peter Ward is a new dad and contributes parenting advice for fathers to a number of different sites.