3 starry sky Hotels

There is a bed in the middle of the desert. Not near a building, not on a porch - just a fully made queen bed, sitting on a cracked salt flat under the Utah sky, catching wind-blown pillows and the occasional napping stranger. It was supposed to be removed. Staff …

There are no light switches at Feynan Ecolodge. No minibar, no television, no electricity sockets in the rooms. What you get instead is candlelight flickering off stone walls, a sky so dense with stars it feels structural, and the sound of nothing in particular. Located deep inside Jordan's Dana Biosphere …

Domes are all the rage in eco-tourism these days. Where old-style hotels needed deep foundations, roads, pipes, and cables to be laid down – eco domes are made from special vinyl that is warm, durable, and light. They are built using the “leave no trace” philosophy and the hotel’s designers …