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=={{anchor|Unique}}Unique and specialty hotels==

=== {{anchor|Historic}} Historic inns and boutique hotels ===
[[File:Hotel Astoria.jpg|thumb|right|[[Hotel Astoria (Saint Petersburg)|Hotel Astoria]] and statue of [[Nicholas I of Russia|Tsar Nicholas I]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia]]
[[File:Grand Hotel in winter.JPG|thumb|left|Grand Hotel Viljandi in winter in [[Viljandi]], Estonia]]
[[Boutique hotel]]s are typically hotels with a unique environment or intimate setting.
Some hotels have gained their renown through tradition, by hosting significant events or persons, such as Schloss [[Cecilienhof]] in [[Potsdam]], Germany, which derives its fame from the [[Potsdam Conference]] of the [[World War II]] allies [[Winston Churchill]], [[Harry Truman]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] in 1945.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Schloss Cecilienhof - Cecilienhof Palace |url=http://www.potsdam.de/node/276259 |work=Landeshauptstadt Potsdam |date=3 December 2004 |access-date=23 October 2015 |archive-date=26 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126002306/http://www.potsdam.de/node/276259 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Taj Mahal Palace & Tower]] in [[Mumbai]] is one of India's most famous and historic hotels because of its association with the [[Indian independence movement]]. Some establishments have given name to a particular meal or beverage, as is the case with the [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel|Waldorf Astoria]] in [[New York City]], United States where the [[Waldorf Salad]] was first created or the [[Hotel Sacher]] in [[Vienna]], Austria, home of the [[Sachertorte]]. Others have achieved fame by association with dishes or cocktails created on their premises, such as the [[Hotel de Paris]] where the [[crêpe Suzette]] was invented or the [[Raffles Hotel]] in [[Singapore]], where the [[Singapore Sling]] cocktail was devised.<ref>{{cite news |first=Colin |last=Campbell |title=Singapore Journal; Back to Somerset Maugham and Life's Seamy Side |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/12/travel/singapore-sling-is-spoken-here.html |location=Singapore |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 December 1982 |access-date=11 February 2019 |page=6 |archive-date=9 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109180112/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/12/travel/singapore-sling-is-spoken-here.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Hotel Ritz Paris.jpg|thumb|right|[[Hôtel Ritz Paris]] in [[France]]]]

A number of hotels have entered the public consciousness through popular culture, such as the [[The Ritz London Hotel|Ritz Hotel]] in [[London]], through its association with [[Irving Berlin|Irving Berlin's]] song, "[[Puttin' on the Ritz]]". The [[Algonquin Hotel]] in New York City is famed as the meeting place of the literary group, the [[Algonquin Round Table]], and [[Hotel Chelsea]], also in New York City, has been the subject of a number of songs and the scene of the stabbing of [[Nancy Spungen]] (allegedly by her boyfriend [[Sid Vicious]]).

==={{anchor|Resort}}Resort hotels===
[[File:Wynn Palace Macau 2016.jpg|thumb|right|[[Wynn Palace]], Macau]] [[File:Shanghai Disneyland Hotel 1.JPG|thumb|right|[[Shanghai Disneyland Hotel]], China]] 
Some hotels are built specifically as a destination in itself to create a captive trade, example at [[casino]]s, [[amusement park]]s and holiday [[resort]]s. Though hotels have always been built in popular destinations, the defining characteristic of a [[resort hotel]] is that it exists purely to serve another attraction, the two having the same owners.

On the [[Las Vegas Strip]] there is a tradition of [[one-upmanship]] with luxurious and extravagant hotels in a concentrated area. This trend now has extended to other resorts worldwide, but the concentration in Las Vegas is still the world's highest: nineteen of the world's twenty-five largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 67,000 rooms.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/largesthotels.htm|title=The 25 Largest Hotels in the World|access-date=18 April 2009|archive-date=18 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218140942/http://vegastodayandtomorrow.com/largesthotels.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Bunker hotels===
The [[Null Stern Hotel]] in [[Teufen AR|Teufen]], [[Appenzellerland]], Switzerland, and the Concrete Mushrooms in [[Albania]]<ref>{{cite news |first=Doug |last=McKinlay |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/sep/13/nuclear-bunker-hotel-null-stern-switzerland |title=Switzerland's Null Stern Hotel: the nuclear option |newspaper=[[Guardian (newspaper)|Guardian]] |date=13 September 2009 |access-date=2 January 2011 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225222747/http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/sep/13/nuclear-bunker-hotel-null-stern-switzerland |archive-date=25 December 2011 |publisher=[[Guardian News and Media Limited]]}}</ref> are former nuclear [[bunker]]s transformed into hotels.

===Cave hotels===
The Cuevas Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (named after the [[Pedro Antonio de Alarcón|author]]) in [[Guadix]], Spain, as well as several hotels in [[Cappadocia]], Turkey, are notable for being built into natural cave formations, some with rooms underground. The Desert Cave Hotel in [[Coober Pedy]], South Australia, is built into the remains of an [[opal]] mine.

===Cliff hotels===
[[File:Hotel Riosol en Gran Canaria.jpg|thumb|On top of the cliff, the Riosol Hotel in Mogán]]
Located on the coast but high above sea level, these hotels offer unobstructed panoramic views and a great sense of privacy without the feeling of total isolation. Some examples from around the globe are the Riosol Hotel in Gran Canaria, Caruso Belvedere Hotel in Amalfi Coast (Italy), Aman Resorts Amankila in Bali, Birkenhead House in Hermanus (South Africa), The Caves in Jamaica and Caesar Augustus in Capri.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/cllifftop-hotels/index.html |title=7 breathtaking clifftop hotels |first=Adam |last=McCulloch |date=13 November 2012 |access-date=11 February 2019 |work=Edition [[CNN]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121129095315/http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/13/travel/cllifftop-hotels/ |archive-date=29 November 2012 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.]]}}</ref>

===Capsule hotels===
[[File:CapsuleHotel.jpg|thumb|Interior of a [[capsule hotel]] in [[Osaka]], Japan]]
[[Capsule hotel]]s are a type of economical hotel first introduced in Japan, where people sleep in stacks of rectangular containers. In the sleeping capsules, beside the bed, the customer can watch TV, put their valuables in the mini safes, and the customers also can use the wireless internet.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chiang |first=Chun-Fang |date=3 April 2018 |title=Influences of price, service convenience, and social servicescape on post-purchase process of capsule hotels |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10941665.2018.1444649 |journal=Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research |language=en |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=373–384 |doi=10.1080/10941665.2018.1444649 |s2cid=158533184 |issn=1094-1665 |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=15 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715203450/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10941665.2018.1444649 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Day room hotels===
Some hotels fill daytime occupancy with [[day room (hotel)|day rooms]], for example, [[Rodeway Inn and Suites]] near [[Port Everglades]] in [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]].<ref name="Chris Cruises">{{cite news|last1=Owen|first1=Chris|title=Pre-Cruise Hotels|url=https://chriscruises.com/pre-cruise-hotel-florida/|access-date=3 December 2016|agency=Chris Cruises|date=5 November 2015|archive-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223064242/https://chriscruises.com/pre-cruise-hotel-florida/|url-status=live}}</ref> Day rooms are booked in a block of hours typically between 8 am and 5 pm,<ref name="CNBC">{{cite news|last1=Booth|first1=Darren|title=Long Layover? Many Airport Hotels Offer Day-Room Rates|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2012/12/18/long-layover-many-airport-hotels-offer-dayroom-rates.html|access-date=3 December 2016|agency=CNBC|date=18 December 2012|archive-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223131404/http://www.cnbc.com/id/100324884|url-status=live}}</ref> before the typical night shift. These are similar to transit hotels in that they appeal to travelers, however, unlike transit hotels, they do not eliminate the need to go through Customs.

===Garden hotels===
Garden hotels often originate as famous buildings with gardens before becoming luxury hotels. In Britain, the conversion into a hotel commonly results from the need to improve the finances of estates.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_Directions_in_Garden_Tourism/t3cREAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=garden+hotels&pg=PA9&printsec=frontcover|title=New Directions in Garden Tourism|first=Richard W.|last=Benfield|publisher=CAB International|date=2021|page=9|isbn=9781789241761}}</ref> These include [[Gravetye Manor]], the home of garden designer [[William Robinson (gardener)|William Robinson]], and [[Cliveden]], designed by [[Charles Barry]] with a rose garden by [[Geoffrey Jellicoe]]. Other prominent examples include the [[Abbasi Hotel]] in [[Iran]], and [[Hostal dos Reis Católicos]] in [[Spain]].

===Ice, snow and igloo hotels===
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[[File:Icehotel entre ms.jpg|thumb|Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden]]
The Ice Hotel in [[Jukkasjärvi]], [[Sweden]], was the first ice hotel in the world; first built in 1990, it is built each winter and melts every spring. The Hotel de Glace in Duschenay, [[Canada]], opened in 2001 and it is North America's only ice hotel. It is redesigned and rebuilt in its entirety every year. 
Ice hotels can also be included within larger ice complexes; for example, the Mammut Snow Hotel in Finland is located within the walls of the [[Kemi]] snow castle; and the Lainio Snow Hotel is part of a snow village near [[Ylläs]], Finland. There is an arctic snowhotel in [[Rovaniemi]] in [[Lapland (Finland)|Lapland]], Finland, along with glass igloos.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20200619005549/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZxrjUGLMU| archive-date = 19 June 2020| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZxrjUGLMU| title = Arctic SnowHotel and Glass Igloos in Rovaniemi in Lapland Finland: discover northern lights| website = [[YouTube]]| access-date =24 August 2023}}</ref> The first glass igloos were built in 1999 in [[Finland]], they became the Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort with 65 buildings, 53 small ones for two people and 12 large ones for four people. Glass igloos, with their roof made of thermal glass, allow guests to admire [[aurora]]s comfortably from their beds.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archello.com/project/glass-igloos|title=GLASS IGLOOS &#124; Kakslauttanen|access-date=15 December 2019|archive-date=15 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215215900/https://archello.com/project/glass-igloos|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Love hotels===
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A love hotel (also 'love motel', especially in Taiwan) is a type of short-stay hotel found around the world, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing guests privacy for [[Human sexual activity|sexual activities]], typically for one to three hours, but with overnight as an option. Styles of premises vary from extremely low-end to extravagantly appointed. In Japan, love hotels have a history of over 400 years.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Matthew Alexander|last2=Chien Chuan Chen|last3=Andrew MacLaren|last4=Kevin D. O'Gorman|date=9 March 2010|title=Love motels: oriental phenomenon or emergent sector?|journal=International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management|volume=22|issue=2|pages=194–208|doi=10.1108/09596111011018188|issn=0959-6119|url=https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/7726/6/strathprints007726.pdf|access-date=6 January 2020|archive-date=9 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609213530/https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/7726/6/strathprints007726.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Portable modular hotels===
In 2021 a New York-based company introduced new [[Modular building|modular]] and movable hotel rooms which allow landowners and [[Hospitality industry|hospitality groups]] to create and easily [[Scalability|scale]] hotel accommodations. The [[Portable building|portable]] units can be built in three to five months and can be stacked to create multi-floor units.<ref>{{cite web |title=A New York startup is creating $150,000 modular portable hotel rooms - see what it's like inside |date=5 September 2021 |author=Brittany Chang |website=Business Insider |url=https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/a-new-york-startup-is-creating-150000-modular-portable-hotel-rooms-xa0see-what-itaposs-like-inside/slidelist/85948841.cms |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=2 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602174803/https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/a-new-york-startup-is-creating-150000-modular-portable-hotel-rooms-xa0see-what-itaposs-like-inside/slidelist/85948841.cms |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Referral hotel===
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A referral hotel is a hotel chain that offers branding to independently operated hotels; the chain itself is founded by or owned by the member hotels as a group. Many former referral chains have been converted to franchises; the largest surviving member-owned chain is [[Best Western]].

===Railway hotels===
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The first recorded purpose-built railway hotel was the [[Great Western Hotel, Reading|Great Western Hotel]], which opened adjacent to [[Reading railway station]] in 1844, shortly after the [[Great Western Railway]] opened its line from London. The building still exists, and although it has been used for other purposes over the years, it is now again a hotel and a member of the [[Malmaison (hotel chain)|Malmaison hotel chain]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Daphne |last=Phillips |title=The Story of Reading |publisher=Countryside Books |date=1980 |isbn=0-905392-07-8 |page=115}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE |desc= Great Western House |num=1113591 |access-date=24 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reading |publisher=Malmaison |url=https://www.malmaison.com/locations/reading/ |access-date=24 February 2017 |archive-date=7 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207032457/https://www.malmaison.com/locations/reading/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Frequently, expanding railway companies built grand hotels at their termini, such as the [[Midland Hotel, Manchester]] next to [[Manchester Central railway station|the former Manchester Central Station]], and in London the ones above [[St Pancras railway station]] and [[Charing Cross railway station]]. London also has the Chiltern Court Hotel above [[Baker Street tube station]], there are also [[Canada's grand railway hotels]]. They are or were mostly, but not exclusively, used by those traveling by rail.

=== Straw bale hotels ===
The Maya Guesthouse in Nax Mont-Noble in the Swiss Alps, is the first hotel in Europe built entirely with straw bales. Due to the insulation values of the walls it needs no conventional heating or air conditioning system, although the Maya Guesthouse is built at an altitude of {{convert|1300|m}} in the Alps.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pr-inside.com/the-first-straw-bale-hotel-will-r2744664.htm/article |title=About the first straw bale hotel in Europe |publisher=Pr-inside.com |date=1 August 2011 |access-date=29 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708022431/http://www.pr-inside.com/the-first-straw-bale-hotel-will-r2744664.htm/article |archive-date=8 July 2012}}</ref>

===Transit hotels===
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Transit hotels are short stay hotels typically used at international airports where passengers can stay while waiting to change airplanes.  The hotels are typically on the [[Airside (airport)|airside]] and do not require a visa for a stay or re-admission through security checkpoints.

===Treehouse hotels===
Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Treehotel near [[Piteå]], Sweden, the Costa Rica Tree House near the [[Jairo Mora Sandoval Gandoca-Manzanillo Mixed Wildlife Refuge]], [[Costa Rica]]; the [[Treetops Hotel]] in [[Aberdare National Park]], [[Kenya]]; the [[Ariau Towers]] near [[Manaus]], Brazil, on the [[Rio Negro (Amazon)|Rio Negro]] in the [[Amazon Basin|Amazon]]; and Bayram's Tree Houses in [[Olympos (Lycia)|Olympos]], Turkey.

===Underwater hotels===
[[File:Ithaa inside.JPG|thumb|[[Ithaa]], the first undersea restaurant at the [[Conrad Hotels|Conrad Maldives]] [[Rangali|Rangali Island]] resort]]
Some hotels have accommodation underwater, such as [[Utter Inn]] in [[Lake Mälaren]], Sweden. [[Hydropolis, Dubai|Hydropolis]], project in [[Dubai]], would have had suites on the bottom of the [[Persian Gulf]], and Jules' Undersea Lodge in [[Key Largo]], [[Florida]], requires [[scuba diving]] to access its rooms.

===Overwater hotels===
[[File:Rehendi Suite Deck (Service).jpg|thumb|An overwater bungalow on the [[island resort]] in the [[Maldives]]]]
A [[resort island]] is an island or an archipelago that contains resorts, hotels, overwater bungalows, restaurants, tourist attractions and its amenities. [[Maldives]] has the most overwater bungalows resorts.

===Yurt hotels===
[[Yurts]] are circular, self-supporting structures with long [[rafters]] coalescing toward a central [[dome]]. During the day, the dome allows [[sunlight]] to illuminate the entire yurt interior, while [[moonlight]] and [[starlight]] shine through the dome at night.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yurt Hotels |website=Uniq Hotels |url=https://www.uniqhotels.com/yurt-hotels |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=2 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602180052/https://www.uniqhotels.com/yurt-hotels |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Other specialty hotels===
[[File:Burj Al Arab, Dubai, by Joi Ito Dec2007.jpg|thumb|right|[[Burj Al Arab]] stands on an [[artificial island]] from [[Jumeirah Beach]] and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge]]
[[File:The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong Level 103 Lobby.jpg|thumb|right|Lobby on 103rd floor at [[The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong]]]]
* The [[Burj al-Arab]] hotel in [[Dubai]], [[United Arab Emirates]], built on an artificial island, is structured in the shape of a boat's sail.
*The [[Library Hotel]] in New York City, is unique in that each of its ten floors is assigned one category from the [[Dewey Decimal Classification|Dewey Decimal System]].
* The Jailhotel Löwengraben in [[Lucerne, Switzerland]], the Malmaison in [[Oxford]], and Bodmin Jail Hotel in [[Bodmin]], are in converted prisons now used as a hotels.
* The [[Luxor (hotel)|Luxor]], a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in [[Paradise, Nevada]], United States is unusual due to its pyramidal structure.
*The Ritz-Carlton opened the highest hotel in the world in 2011, [[The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong]] on floors 102-118 of the [[International Commerce Centre]] in [[Tsim Sha Tsui]] on Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong.<ref name="e-architect">{{cite web| title=International Commerce Centre Hong Kong| date=8 April 2011| url=http://www.e-architect.co.uk/hong_kong/international_commerce_centre.htm| publisher=e-architect.com| access-date=15 July 2015}}</ref> The lobby is {{convert|425|m|abbr=on}} above the ground.<ref name="icc">{{cite web|title=Amenities-Hotels |publisher=Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. |url=http://www.shkp-icc.com/amenitites/hotels.html |year=2011 |access-date=5 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202045714/http://shkp-icc.com/amenitites/hotels.html |archive-date=2 February 2011 }}</ref> 
* The [[Liberty Hotel]] in [[Boston]] used to be the [[Charles Street Jail]].
* Hotel Kakslauttanen in [[Finland]], a collection of glass igloos in Lapland that allow you to watch the Northern Lights<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://qosy.co/most-luxurious-hotels-retreats/ |title=101 Most Luxurious Hotels and Retreats in the World |access-date=16 April 2014 |work=Qosy |archive-date=12 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112153109/http://qosy.co/most-luxurious-hotels-retreats/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Built in [[Scotland]] and completed in 1936, The former [[ocean liner]] {{RMS|Queen Mary}} in [[Long Beach, California]], United States uses its first-class staterooms as a hotel, after retiring in 1967 from Transatlantic service.
* The [[Wigwam Motel]]s used patented [[novelty architecture]] in which each motel room was a free-standing concrete wigwam or teepee.
* [[The Bus Collective]] in [[Singapore]] was built from 20 retired public buses, and opened in 2023.
* Various [[caboose|Caboose Motel]] or Red Caboose Inn properties are built from decommissioned rail cars.
*Throughout the world there are several hotels built from converted airliners.