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10 former prisons that are now amazing hotels

One of the most important parts of a vacation (for a good rest) is accommodation in a quality hotel. What kind of accommodation we choose actually depends only on us and our interests. Maybe we want to go to a hotel that used to be a prison. In fact, some of the most famous hotels were once prisons. Exciting, right? Here are ten former prisons that are now amazing hotels!

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Palacio de Sal – a Bolivian hotel made of salt

Ice hotels are nothing new, but if there's one ingredient you're sure you can't build a hotel out of, it's salt. Because salt belongs on the table, right? Error. Welcome to the salt hotel Palacio de Sal, ('palace of salt' in Spanish), located in the Salar de Uyunina region of southwestern Bolivia, the largest salt flat in the world, more than 3,500 meters above sea level.

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Croatian Hotel Osam: The first "adults only" hotel in Dalmatia

The Croatian Hotel Osam, found on the island of Brač, promises the best experience of the island lifestyle combined with all the comforts offered by a four-star hotel. In addition to the luxury offer, it also promises complete peace, without children crying, as only adults can stay overnight in the hotel.

Architecture & Interior

Salt & Water – a hotel with floating bedrooms

The Serbian architecture office Salt & Water designed a floating hotel that offers a superb vacation opportunity with a wonderful view of the surrounding nature.

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Korčula De La Ville Hotel: One of the most beautiful hotels in southern Dalmatia

These days, one of the most beautiful hotels in southern Dalmatia opened its doors. The renovated Korčula De La Ville Hotel, which represents an ideal destination for tourists who want an intimate vacation on one of the most beautiful Croatian islands, can be found on the charming waterfront of the old town of Korčula.

Architecture & Interior

Lofoten Opera Hotel – a snake-shaped hotel of the future on the Norwegian coast

The Lofoten Opera Hotel will not be an ordinary hotel. Because not only will it lie in a magnificent location in Norway, where the Atlantic and high mountains meet (in an area called Glåpen near Lofoten), but with its serpentine shape it will be a unique attraction that will complement and emphasize both the beauty and the harshness of nature . The authors at the Snøhetta company imagined the hotel wedged between the mountains and the ocean as a golden snake resting in living rock.

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In Mecca, they are building the largest hotel in the world, Abraj Kudai, with 10,000 rooms

The largest hotel in the world is being built in the pilgrimage center of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which will have as many as 10,000 rooms and 70 restaurants. The 45-story Abraj Kudaiu will open its doors in 2017 and will surpass the current record holder, the Venetian and the Palazzo in Las Vegas, by almost two thousand rooms, as it offers "only" 8,108. The complex is expected to measure 1.4 million square meters, while the price for it will be measured in billions, and in the end it should amount to a whopping 3.6 billion.

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A resort in the Maldives named the best hotel of 2015

As every year, TripAdvisor has prepared its selection of the best hotels in 2015, where this time Gili Lankanfushi, a resort in the Maldives, which includes more than 45 dreamy villas on the water, which provide guests with a paradise vacation, took first place.

Architecture & Interior

A playful Legoland hotel in Florida

Do you remember when we were children building our first houses, castles and forts from Lego blocks and wishing we could actually live in them? Now this is possible in a way, because they built a new Legoland hotel in Florida.

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The most expensive hotel rooms in the world

How much money are you willing to pay for a luxury hotel room? We have prepared a selection of the 10 most expensive hotel rooms in the world, which far exceed the price of 10,000 euros per night.

Architecture & Interior

Travelbox: the first portable pop-up hotel

Travelbox is the first portable pop-up hotel, which is intended for all travelers who change their location several times during their trip and at the same time want a little more comfort than a simple tent. The Travelbox is basically very light for its purpose, weighing only 59 kilograms, but it includes a comfortable bed, chair, table, storage and even a bike if you want to take it somewhere.

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Famous hotels from famous movies that you can actually visit

Although our lives may seem dull compared to the one on the movie screen, we can at least get a taste of the movie by visiting one of the 13 famous hotels that have appeared in famous movies. Live like Kevin McCallister (Home Alone), if only for a day and without the cameras and headlights.

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the hotel

10 former prisons that are now amazing hotels

Palacio de Sal – a Bolivian hotel made of salt

Croatian Hotel Osam: The first "adults only" hotel in Dalmatia

Salt & Water – a hotel with floating bedrooms

Korčula De La Ville Hotel: One of the most beautiful hotels in southern Dalmatia

Lofoten Opera Hotel – a snake-shaped hotel of the future on the Norwegian coast

In Mecca, they are building the largest hotel in the world, Abraj Kudai, with 10,000 rooms

A resort in the Maldives named the best hotel of 2015

A playful Legoland hotel in Florida

The most expensive hotel rooms in the world

Famous hotels from famous movies that you can actually visit

Crocs x G-SHOCK: The most unpredictable fashion collaboration of the year glows in the dark (literally)

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Limescale – the silent enemy that steals the shine of your bathroom: 3 natural tricks for the most stubborn stains in the toilet, bathtub and sink

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