If the idea of a staycation just makes you want to barf, here are some hotel suggestions from Bing’s Budget Travel: weird hotels.
I have to say none of them makes me want to whip out the plastic & book a stay. But the one that has been tiptoeing around my brain for a few years is the Ice Hotel. That’s the place in the Arctic Circle of Sweden that’s constructed out of actual, you know, arctic ice blocks every winter.
Over the years they’ve developed a whole schtick out of the concept. There’s a restaurant & a bar. In the latter, your vodka is served in glasses of ice. You’re issued arctic outerwear to put over your normal warm stuff & in what they’re now referring to as “cold rooms” you sleep on a bunch of fur pelts over a block of ice.
I don’t know why this should appeal to me, since I’m not a fan of cold weather. I think it’s a combination of the possibility of watching the Aurora Borealis & drinking vodka out of ice glasses.
Of course, I am a little concerned about needing to, er, dispense with the, erm, processed vodka. I mean—how quickly can one drop one’s multiple layers of warm clothes to take a whiz? & then get them back on?
Anyhow—my contribution to your leisure possibilities.
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