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Themed rooms feature real classic cars, vintage gas pumps, and workshop aesthetics, with beds custom-built into preserved vintage vehicles ranging from classic Mercedes-Benz sedans to Cadillacs. Mexico’s Tubohotel in the mountain town of Tepoztlan offers a feat of modular industrial design. The budget property uses recycled, heavy-duty concrete sewer pipes stacked in pyramids around a central courtyard and swimming pool. Each cylindrical pod holds a queen-size bed with a glass end-wall entry and curtains. The interior is clad in handcrafted Costa Rican teak, with a wooden deck built over the wing.
Why sleep in a regular bed when you can sleep inside a literal Boeing 737 in the jungle, a 50-metre crane, or a hotel rebuilt from snow and river ice every winter? From the Amazon to the Arctic, these eight stays, highlighted in an August 23 EarthPix Instagram post, are unbelievable for a reason: In Germany, V8 Hotel in Boblingen, located within Motorworld Region Stuttgart inside the historic airport building, is built for automotive obsession. Atop Jested Mountain in Liberec, Czech Republic, at 1,012 metres above sea level, Hotel Jested is a late-1960s landmark. The retro-futuristic hyperboloid tower combines a television transmitter, lookout deck and hotel in one structure, offering 360-degree panoramic views across Bohemia, Saxony and Poland. In Puntarenas, Costa Rica, on the edge of Manuel Antonio National Park, Hotel Costa Verde houses the famous ‘727 fuselage suite’. The two-bedroom suite was created inside a restored 1965 Boeing 727 airframe placed atop a 50-foot pedestal in the jungle canopy.
