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Unusual Hotels of the World launches book
Online visitors to the UHOTW site will already be aware of many Unusual properties that our global team of contributors have uncovered. 50 favourites, including 20 that are completely new have been featured in this glossy 19.5cm x 28.5cm coffee table guide,
With 235 colour photos and 224 glossy pages the guide is available exclusively from www.gounusual.com until February 08. Normally priced at UK £16.99, the guide is offered to gounusual club members for only £14.99 with free UK shipping for all orders of 2 or more items from the site. Other guides available from gounusual include the Secret Paris and Brussels guides as well as Secret Bars and Restaurants in Paris.
The Unusual Hotels of the World book, brings you some of its most unusual hotel discoveries:
- View a hotel in a disused US Air Force radar tower in the heart of the equatorial rainforest in Panama.
- Slide back the roof of your bedroom to gaze at the stars in Chile.
- Enjoy the solitude of chalets hidden in a Swedish forest.
- Experience just a glimpse of extreme life and rest in an oil rig survival pod in Holland.
- Imagine yourself in a nursery rhyme and step into a giant shoe.
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With prices ranging from £15 to over £700 per night, author Steve Dobson has selected 50 hotels in 23 different countries: Canada, USA, Mexico, Panama, Chile, Brazil, Finland, Sweden, UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Japan, China, India, New Zealand, Senegal, Kenya.
Check out some sample entries by clicking here. |
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Unusual Hotels of the World wins Best Website Award
Fighting tough competition from large, established, hotel companies, Unusual Hotel guide www.unusualhotelsoftheworld.com has won the award for best website of 2007 at the Worldwide Hospitality Awards. Now in their 8th Year, previous nominations for this prestigious award have included Hilton Hotels and Radisson. The team of Unusual Hotels of the World beat competition to win the award at the ceremony in Paris on the 22nd November.
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“It is businesses as usual for Unusual” quipped co-founder of this guide to over 130 Unusual properties, Steve Dobson. “We’ve always been keen to do something different and buck the boring. Facing off against more established ideas is something we enjoy doing”.
“Membership of the online guide is restricted to properties that can demonstrate that they are unusual in themselves, not just extreme in their tariffs” highlights Steve.
About the Worldwide Hospitality Awards
Since 1999, MKG Group and HTR Magazine, have managed the awards to recognise and reward best practices and initiatives, innovations and unique characteristics of hotels and hoteliers. This year, the Jury is presided by Clara Gaymard, president of General Electric France and winners were announced at the ceremony in Paris.
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Preview of New logo and look on gounusual.com
The new logo for The Unusual Company, as well as it’s associated companies launched in November.
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Highlighting the online guide theme of ‘hotels and books with a twist’ the logo will be rolled out to all the different sites in early 2008.
Many people have helped with ideas for the logo and Steve and Simon would particularly like to thank Matt Weston of UK business community Business Bricks for his help in the design competition that highlighted so many ideas. After several great concepts it was Sam Styles of Styles design who finally came up with the graphics that encapsulated what The Unusual Company do. His efforts and those of the Iniquus design team headed by Vikram Raghuvanshi have provided a logo that the whole team is excited about.
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Visit report Baumhaus Hotel Germany 
Steve was on his travels again and recently spent the night in Germany’s first tree house resort, near the town of Gorlitz, close to Dresden.
Unlike many tree houses that are often converted sheds reached by rope ladders this mini-village of 5 tree houses are connected by sturdy walkways. TUV certified, the complete tree house complex is designed to be safe even for small children. With a next-door adventure playground featuring over 500m of interconnected tunnels underground this is no ordinary destination.
Designed and built by owner Jürgen Bergmann and his team of children's adventure playground architects and builders it is incredible to see such creativity for real.
 Some tree houses have small balconies and each tree house is themed according to the regional tradition and myths of trolls and fairy folk. Steve stayed in the button-loving-fairy Fiona’s house, and all are impressively fun to stay in.
The adventure park also hosts a number of folk festivals, the largest attracting crowds of up to 10,000 revellers over the party weekend. For immediate information to share with friends, check out details in the book – or be patient and look at it online over the next month!
Thank you for your continued support of the online guide. It is through your feedback that we can continue to improve the online guide. Please take a moment to tell us a little about yourself
We’d welcome your ideas and suggestions to build into the New Year edition of the Unusual Hotels of the World guide.
Best wishes for the festive season and for 2008.
Thank you for all your support
Steve and Simon
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