Wolves in the woods, art by Kengo Kuma, and a lake you can actually swim in. Oasyhotel sits inside 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) of protected Apennine wilderness in Tuscany - Italy's first WWF-affiliated nature reserve - and it is doing something uniquely different with the place. Somewhere between Florence and …
Sanctuary Treehouse Resort in Sevierville, Tennessee describes itself as the world's first interactive treehouse resort, which is one way to put it. Another is that someone built a 6-meter (20-foot) slide off the bedroom, installed a drink chute between floors so you never have to carry your own beverage up …
Down a narrow alley just behind the Shambles, easy to miss if you don't know it's there, Hocus Pocus Tiny Hotel is the kind of place that makes you wonder whether you've accidentally wandered into a film set. A Grade II listed medieval building with timber beams, creaking stairs, and …
There is a photograph taken of you on arrival and placed on your nightstand by the time you reach your suite. The card alongside it reads: "We are celebrating you." This tells you almost everything you need to know about La Residence. The hotel - part of the family-owned Royal …
Sweets Hotel Machida is exactly what it sounds like, and absolutely nothing like what you'd expect. Sitting in suburban Tokyo, this 19-room love hotel has committed so completely to its confectionery concept - chocolate baths, shell-shaped beds, a mermaid aquarium - that the result lands somewhere between a fever dream …
The reception desk at ZERO Box Lodge in Coimbra is a motorbike. The check-in process involves a cold beer, handed to you on arrival, and the quiet suggestion that the best thing you can do now is go outside. The rooms are stripped back by design - no windows, no …
Somewhere in the Charente countryside of southwest France, on a 1,000-hectare (2,500-acre) estate of forests, lakes, and open pastureland, there is a tennis court floating on a pond. There is also a 13th-century castle tower where you can sleep beneath a glass ceiling and look up at the stone ribs …