SwissTubes - Cylinders Of Comfort

Fancy spending the night dangling off a cliff face in Argentine Patagonia? OVO Patagonia has opened four transparent capsules bolted to a rock wall, offering what might be the most vertigo-inducing accommodation experience on the planet. This isn't glamping – it's something altogether more unhinged. The concept is simple, if …

Cat Spa & Cat Ryokan by Neco is a ryokan, a capsule hotel, and an animal café, but mostly a place overdosed with cuteness in the heart of Osaka. Ryokans are the Japanese version of Western hotels, with some peculiar differences. The cultural experience begins when you arrive at a …

Japan is at the forefront when it comes to digitalization, robotization, and simplification. And this trend has sneaked into the hotel industry quicker than anywhere else in the world. It started with opening the first capsule hotel in 1979, which was and still is a groundbreaking concept. Making the best …

Most people fantasize about escaping to a simpler life, but Lea and Gadi Nahimov actually did it. Tucked away in the Negev Desert near Sde Boker, their working goat farm has become a refuge where the biggest decision of your day might be which artisanal cheese to try next, and …

A two-hour boat ride through the Caribbean Sea from the port of Cartagena takes you to the turquoise waters of the San Bernardo Islands, home to one of the wildest hostels in the world. Casa en el Agua is in the Rosario and San Bernardo Corals National Natural Park, a …

The JO&JOE Vienna is a hip hotel/hostel on the fifth and sixth floors of IKEA at Vienna's Westbahnhof, famous for its striking architecture. Vienna's centrally located IKEA has a metal skeleton frame with modular containers filling the gaps and solar panels on its rooftop. Bird nests, beehives, 160 trees, solar …

In the forested hills above Luang Prabang, architect Bill Bensley has conjured something wonderfully eccentric: a 23-room resort that reimagines a 19th-century French colonial hill station, complete with safari-style tents perched in the treetops. The property sprawls across both banks of the Nam Dong River, connected by a bridge that …

There are two ways to arrive at Minaret Station, and both involve a helicopter. You can land directly at the lodge, or you can ask the pilot to drop you halfway up the mountain so you can hike the rest of the way through woodland and past streams, arriving just …

Sleep in a human-sized nest perched in the trees. Wake to whales breaching offshore from your solar-powered tent. Dine on sushi made with herbs picked minutes earlier from the garden. At Treebones Resort on California's Big Sur coast, the line between camping and luxury blurs into something altogether more interesting …

Half an hour from Rovaniemi, down a winding forest road that makes you wonder if you've taken a wrong turn, sits a resort that manages to be both deeply luxurious and authentically Finnish. Aito Igloo & Spa Resort offers panoramic treehouse accommodation overlooking a frozen lake, a proper wellness center …