The Underwater Hotel....

Within this blog I have found and written about the Death hotel and the Divorce hotel and to continue the thread of the weird and wonderful hotels of the world, ladies & gentlemen I now give you the Underwater Hotel, otherwise known as the Poseidon Undersea Resort, which is located in Fiji. Really ! a hotel built under the sea, sitting on the sea bed, and made of super plastic, oh I am just not too sure on this one, not sure at all.

Okay so I bet the claustrophobic comment comes up all the time and I bet they have their answer all ready, maybe something to do with the amount of view that eases that sensation would be my guess, but what the feeling that with all that water around you would just want to spent your whole time in the toilet?

The website for this hotel is: www.poseidonresorts.com and all I can really say is go and have a look for yourself and make up your own mind. At some point in my life I would love to visit and stay at all the worlds most unusual, unique hotels and this is definitely one of those, but, and I have to be honest, it is a massive but, I am really not sure I would want to sleep in a plastic bubble under the sea. I would not mind going to a restaurant, or an observation capsule, but actually falling asleep down there just does not appeal.

The idea of building hotels undersea is not new or unique, there is even plans for a £1.5billion project in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, which would of course be a 5 Star super luxury place, but even that does not get me over the idea of falling asleep under the sea. And yes I know that people who go around in submarines do that all the time, but I bet they don’t have a window next to their bed and wake up staring at the fishes’.

Team GB Football Kit

Okay so the kit for Team GB, the football team for Britain at the London 2012 Olympics has just been unveilled and I have to say I like it. It might just be a bit tight for me to ever wear, not sure I have the body for such a design, but I do like it.

I think it will also be interesting to see if next year in the EPL if teams that normally wear adidas with have a similar style and fit.

However for me, I have to say I would really like to see, The Ox wearing this shirt at the games, far more than playing for England at the Euro's, I think it would be far better for his development. Equally I would like to see team GB have a strong side, so I would also like to see Ramsey, Wilshere and Frimpong join him in the squad.

The Divorce Hotel

Some time ago I blogged about a hotel in Japan which was aimed for the dead!, Click Here and now I have come across another weird and wonderful idea for a niche market hotel concept, a hotel called the Divorce Hotel, Click Here

A hotel that has set itself up to organise, sort out and confirm your divorce over a weekend while staying in the hotel. OMG, I can’t believe the mind that thought this up. But then again, if you think about it, hotels have played a major part in the act of getting married, and in a lot of cases in the romance before hand, so maybe it is a logical conclusion that a hotel has now completed the circle and offered this. But a hotel doing divorces, as a hotelier it just leaves a bad taste in the mouth, and in a lot of ways I think it damages the romance of our industry.

But lets be fair on the people behind this. They had a business, they needed to find a way of selling rooms and filling the property, just as all hotels have to do. They spotted a gap in the market and filled it, so maybe it is not them that is to blame. After all this would not be generating news coverage if it was not working and if there was not a market for it. Equally if it does work, how long before this becomes a Brand and has hotels all over the world, I can see it in the USA, The UK and across Europe, and I could see it happening fast.

It is also interesting that when you look at the website for the business there are no bedroom, or restaurant pictures, it is just sales pitch and the prices starting from 2,449euro.

But it is sad that our world, our society has come to this, it is sad that the average marriage in the UK last less than 6 years, and it is not the hotels fault these marriages break down, so providing the service is just another example of the creativity of us hoteliers, but I am glad I did not have the idea, even if it turns out to be a massive success, I guess I am just a bit boring, and I just don’t like it.