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LIST: UNDERWATER ACCOMMODATION
These are existing or planned underwater hotels where you can literally "sleep with the fishes". | |||||
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| Hydropolis Dubai |
The biggie. An entire hotel complex to be built off Jumeirah Beach in Dubai. (Note of caution: it was scheduled to open in 2007, but judging by the inactivity on its website, could be lying dead in the water, so to speak!). The hotel which resembles the underwater alien shapes in the sci-fi movie 'The Abyss' (its German designer calls the architectural style "Biogenetic") will sit half underwater and half exposed in its own 20-metre trough, connected to a reception building on the land by an electric train running in a tube. In addition to the 220 suites each costing around £3,500 per night, the complex will house several restaurants, a ballroom, a cinema, conference facilities, a cosmetic surgery clinic, and a spa specialising in hydrotherapy treatments. The above water exterior sections which provide artificial beach platforms, swimming pools and bars will be hidden from prying eyes by a curtain of waterfalls, that will also generate a fine mist which will help reduce the temperature around the hotel. | ||||
| Poseidon Undersea Resort Bahamas |
The Poseidon resort will be located 16 metres underwater off the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas. It will feature around 20 air-conditioned, humidity-controlled pods with reinforced transparent walls, each a 5-star luxury suite, reachable by lifts from the surface. Guests will be able to lie in bed, or in a jacuzzi, and watch the marine activities on the surrounding reef. Other facilities will include a revolving sea-floor restaurant, a library/lounge/conference room, and for certfied divers, a lock out chamber and moon pool combination so that they can go for a swim around the hotel grounds.This first Poseidon resort is planned to opened at the end of 2006. | ||||
| Utter Inn Sweden |
A single (quite nicely decorated) room suspended under a pontoon 1km out in the middle of Lake Mälaren in Västerås, Sweden. The floating pontoon has a small hut and a deck from which to fish, swim, kayak, etc. You climb down a ladder to the bedroom which contains only twin beds and a table. Meals are delivered by boat. It doesn't have a website but Unusual Hotels of the World sell it and The Guardian has been there. | ||||
| Jules' Undersea Lodge Florida Keys |
The original underwater hotel, and still going strong. The air-conditioned 'hotel' located just of Key Largo is the size of a large caravan. It has two bedrooms, a kitchen, toilet, shower, and plenty of creature comforts such as books, VCR, stereo, etc. The only downside is that you have to be a certfied diver to stay there because to get to it you need to dive down 21 feet and enter through a moon pool opening at the bottom of the habitat. | ||||
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| Research Tips: | * | Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa opened an all-glass undersea restaurant in April 2005. The Ithaa restaurant sits 5 meters below the waves of the Indian Ocean, surrounded by a coral reef and encased in clear acrylic offering diners 270-degrees of panoramic underwater views. It is reached by a wooden walkway from the nearby over-water Sunset Grill Restaurant. Diners begin their meal with drinks on a specially constructed deck over the ocean and then descend to the restaurant via a spiral staircase where the ā la carte menu is served. The 5 x 9-metre transparent arch, which spans the entire room, seats 14 people and is set with the resorts reef one side, and a clear lagoon on the other. |
| * | Huvafen Fushi resort in the Maldives has an underwater spa. The resort is built over its on lagoon and two of the spa's eight treatment rooms are underwater. | |
| * | The French architect Jacques Rougerie constructed three underwater habitats between 1977 and 1981, though none ever made it into the water. He has also designed an undersea village for the Virgin Islands that has yet to be realised. (He is currently working on SeaOrbiter a giant drifting buoy with pressurised accommodation for 18 crew & researchers. 31 metres of its 51 metre height will hang below the surface. Its first mission, in the Gulf Stream, is scheduled for 2008.) | |
| * | Giancarlo Zema's marine accommodation design concepts with underwater viewing include Neptus 60, Jelly-fish 45 & Trilobis 65. | |
| * | In April 2006 the China News agency reported that an underwater hotel is planned to be built in 2009 in Qingdao, a city of Shandong Province in North China. The hotel will combine public rooms and facilities on land (60%) with 390 suites, a spa and rotating restaurant up to 25 metres underwater. The company behind the project is reported to be Crescent Hydropolis Resorts, the same company that is building Hydroplis in Dubai. | |
| * | An underwater, or at least partially underwater, casino resort called 'City of Dreams' is planned for Macau in 2008, by a local casino company, Melco International Development. The resort will have three hotels totalling over 2,000 rooms, a theatre complex and an underwater casino. Macau, like Hong Kong, is a former island colony lying off the South China Coast and now a Special Autonomous Region (SAR). |
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