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Inside The All-New Legoland Hotel

After much anticipation, the all-new Legoland Hotel opened on Friday, April 5, 2013. Located right next to the theme park in Carlsbad, California, the three-storey 250-room hotel does not disappoint, especially for those that can’t get enough of those colourful plastic bricks.

3 April 2013

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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.

3 March 2013

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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.

13 December 2012

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Spend The Night In An Anal Cavity

The Hotel CasAnus is a hotel shaped like an anus. It’s real, it’s in Belgium, and you can spend the night in it if you have some kind of scatological thing going on.

28 November 2012

News

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 $US50 worth of parts. Now a recent spate of hotel break-ins is being attributed to the attack.

18 August 2012

News

Millions Of Hotel Room Locks Have A Glaring Security Flaw That Won’t Get Fixed

With less than $US50 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.

2 August 2012

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Tiny Hotel Hypercubus Is A Modular Dwelling For The Modern Traveller

Just because there isn’t a four-star hotel located in every lushly landscaped region of the world doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to take a holiday anywhere other than Paris, Hong Kong or Kauai. Sure, there’s always camping. But it’s OK to not want to sleep in a tent for a fortnight.

23 July 2012

Gadgets

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.

3 July 2012

Gadgets

Your Hotel Bible Is Now A Kindle

The Hotel Indigo in Newcastle, UK, is much like any other hotel: expensive mini bar, pointless shower caps, and bed sheets that take 10 minutes to get under. Until you peer into the beside table that is, because in the place of a Bible there’s a Kindle waiting to be read.

3 May 2012

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This Hanging Hotel Made Of Recycled Materials Is Weird And 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. From May 10 to 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 $US57 per occupant.

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