Quirky Guide

If you’re fed up with overcrowded, built up, boozy party town ski resorts, Idaho’s back country may provide the remedy you’re looking for.

If you have good sea legs and a fondness for the unusual, then don’t settle for a hotel with foundations set in stone.

Live out your childhood dream of sleeping in a tree house in Olympus, where a whole metropolis of stilted shacks and tree houses awaits.

This quirky little haven is an unusual mix of modern and traditional Moroccan with the “best roof top in the city” according to Jamie Oliver.

A stony chamber, 155m below ground in a cold, dark mine. An unlikely setting for a hotel suite, or so you might think.

Downtown Osaka. 3am. You’ve drunk too much sake, spent nearly all your money and missed the last train. What do you do? Sleep in a fibre-glass pod.

Take your pick from a gothic fantasy where guests sleep in coffins, a padded cell or a vomit-inducing room clothed in irregular mirrors.

A new hotel in the South Stand of Twickenham Rugby Stadium has just unveiled six rather special suites overlooking the hallowed turf.

Would you like to make love in a cage? Or surrounded by Winnie the Poohs? Whatever your sexual fantasy, there’s a Love Hotel in Japan that caters to you.

The idea of dormitories, bunk beds, queues for breakfast and communal TV rooms may not give you a glowy Christmas feeling, but you’d be surprised.