Underground hotel in sweden

Sala Silvermine Suite Underground, Sweden

All that glitters is not gold. Sometimes it's money. Although it is difficult to know if there is enough light to 600 meters underground to discern the light of anything. 600 meters is the depth of the Sala Silvermine Suite Underground, and if only for its status as the world's deepest hotel, this single room is amazing. It is dug in an old silver mine dating from the eighteenth century and features a silver furniture.

The entrants are entitled to a quick visit and then are left for the night in their room at 30 ° C. Not a sequel to the weak of heart.

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Ice Hotel, Quebec

Ice Hotel, Quebec 

No need to live in an igloo to capture the true Canadian experience, but it would certainly be fun. For a few months each year, you can live like a Eskimo in this Quebec hotel, entirely of ice and snow. Even mattresses are frozen, and 500 tons of ice and 15,000 tons of snow were trained high ceilings of 20 meters and a finely carved furniture.
this hotel is the first and only glace hotel in north america, it is located 5 km north of Quebec City, on the first slopes of the Laurentian mountains

It takes about six weeks to build with 50 workers. The hotel makes its own snow using a magical and special blend to adjust the moisture content and therefore create snow.

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Karostas Cietums, a prison or an hotel?

Karostas Cietums hotel Latvia 

The prison was closed in 1997 after nearly a century of confinement morbid and dangerous for military prisoners, but they say the place is still haunted by the ghosts of his sordid tsarist past. On frightening Soviet relics occupy metallic and dark cells, and actors in military clothes recreate the atmosphere of the prison with a terrifying realism. Residents can choose from a ride with "accessories show," participate in a reality TV show called "Behind the Bars", or put themselves in the shoes of a prisoner by spending a night in jail. They are then treated as prisoners.

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An hôtel made of salt !

Palacio de Sal, Bolivia

Do not go near the Palacio de Sal if you want to reduce your sodium intake. This place is pure salt, the walls on the ground through the furniture.

Color chalk white huts blend into the white landscape of the Salar de Uyuni, which extends to a salty drop in all directions and provides a breathtaking view for stargazing and eating popcorn. Or fries, or chips ... you get the point. It is a land of salt, lots of salt.

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Dog Bark Park Inn

Dog Bark Park Inn, Idaho 

It's the size of a rock, the colors of Snoopy, and you can spend the night. It is a kind of dog Troy, located in the pastures of Idaho, along with toilet-shaped giant water pump.

The Dog Bark Park Inn is a nine meter high beagle named "Sweet Willy" which hosts a wonderful world based on the theme of dogs, and 26 dogs carved and shaped cookies dogs.

Residents sleep in a single room with a bed and an appendix with two twin beds. Probably the cutest niche where you never sleep

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The most luxurious hotel in the world

The Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi 

The most luxurious hotel in the world 

Built at a cost of $ 3 billion, the Emirates Palace has 394 rooms and suites, 40 meeting rooms and conference facilities, a white sand beach, a myriad of pools and fountains, a lavish spa, imported marble 13 countries and more than 1,000 crystal chandeliers. It's like a small fortress craft that also boasts the most prestigious marina in the Middle East. The royals, or those who want to experience the attractions, can bask in one of the many suites of the palace, each dressed in a sumptuous setting befitting a sultan of old, but with enough modern conveniences to please today magnates.

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hashtag #MyDestination

Inspired by Twitter to filter threads on a specific topic, the hashtag (keyword hash) has quickly established itself in the language of social networking sites. It was adopted by Instagram, Youtube and Facebook with even less success.

The tourist office in Montreal and encourages tourists to twitter, instagrammer, post videos with the hashtag #MTLMOMENTS. These digital traces are then taken with the objective of territorial communication, the city seen by citizens and tourists, a social wall (social wall) that dynamically collects all contributions.

The Stockholm Arlanda airport in Sweden has increased its ingenuity by developing customized travel guides mobile, the content comes directly from the geotagged photos on Instagram. For each of the destinations served by the company, one can discover the different places of a city in photo, add to favorites and even download his own guide in PDF. Of course the purists will say that reading a PDF on mobile is a Dantesque user experience but it's a trade probably relevant in terms of development cost.

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