I am currently on vacation and thought I might entice you to do the same by giving you glimpses of some rather odd places to stay. No, I do not have the luxury of staying in one these accommodations which you are seeing over this next week or so.
HANG OUT LIKE A TEAMSTER
For savoring the windswept Dutch landscape, nothing will lift you higher than the Harbour Crane, which for almost 30 years toiled at unloading timber at Harlingen, a port city an hour outside of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Since 2003, the massive crane has housed a luxury hotel room for two, roughly 60 feet above the harbor docks. Don’t expect to sleep in an oily industrial hutch—the hotel’s lighting system is touch-screen operated, the chairs are Eames Lounges, and the spindle of structural steel around you has a certain sculptural elegance. But the big payoff: You and your guest can jump into the cockpit and seize the controls, swinging the 143,000-pound crane a full 360 degrees.
SOURCE: Budget Travel
Posted on October 11th, 2009 at 11:11 am by Lin McNulty
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