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===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.
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