Hotels
World's Weirdest Hotels 2011
Why book a Standard Double when you could sleep in an opal mine? Our fourth-annual roundup showcases 10 hotels so strange they couldn't possibly be ...more
SECRET HOTELS
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Hôtel Mayet
This offbeat art hotel offers stacks of free post-cards with stamps included and features colorful abstract murals by local artists.
HOTEL PHOTOS
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World's Weirdest Hotels
We've come across some wild places in our four years of surveying the world's weirdest hotels. Check out the 2011 lineup below, and keep clicking to see which repurposed salt mines, wagons, wine casks—and more!— have made the cut in the past.
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