Amazing Underwater Hotel Experiences to Become a Reality?
It seems underwater hotels are the new rage in bizarre hotel experiences. Finland blew us away with the ice hotel, China with its underground hotel, and now Fiji, Africa and Dubai –and other countries which now have competing underwater hotel experiences for the adventurous and well-heeled.
Sites of some current underwater hotels:
- The Manta Resort in Zanzibar, Africa (Pemba Island) is located 13 feet below the surface and rents for $900 to $1500 per night.
- On Rengali Island in the Maldives is the Conrad Hilton’s Maldives Rengali Island Resort where an underwater restaurant is, on occasion, turned into a luxurious underwater hotel room that rents for at least $800 per night. Would imagine that reservations are needed far in advance.
- 3. Sweden’s Utter Inn offers a tiny single room (80 square feet) 10 feet underwater for around $170 per night. A boat drops you off at the small station that sits above the room. No restaurant or spa here. Bring your own food and wine?
- Jules Undersea Lodge in Key West, Florida requires that you scuba dive to your room, located 30 feet under the surface. Pizza delivery is available to these spacious 2-bedroom units. Rates start at about $800 for two under their Jul package.
- The Poseidon Undersea Resort on mysterious Katafinga Island in Fiji is pictured above. Very luxurious, rooms here start at $1500 per night for a single and double that for a couple. These rates may be dated, so would advise checking!
- Floor to ceiling windows are standard at the luxurious and newer Atlantis The Palm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates which sits in a virtual aquarium. For best rates, the hotel advises you contact them directly. Restaurants and family fun look absolutely wonderful. What an adventure!
I have yet to stay in an underwater hotel room, but do wonder what it would be like to sleep among the sea life. Would also have difficulty falling asleep if I could see what sea life was going on around me.
Should I put in on my bucket list?
