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.
HOBBIT HABITATS FOR HUMANITY
If you queued up for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, you’d probably feel right at home in the Hobbit Motel, in Otorohanga, New Zealand. The motel’s two hillside burrows are faithful replicas of the fictional hobbit dwellings—right down to the circular windows and doorways, red-and-beige walls, and camouflaged exteriors. The real-life rooms are scaled to human proportions, though, so actual hobbits might find them disagreeable.
The Hobbit Motel is only one part of Woodlyn Park, a bizarre collection of lodgings that includes a 1950s railway car, a dry-docked patrol boat, and a grounded airplane from the Vietnam War. As if that weren’t eccentric enough, the complex caters to visitors of the nearby Waitomo Caves, where the star attraction is a colony of glowworms.
SOURCE: Budget Travel
Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 3:15 pm by Lin McNulty
0