It’s pretty common to regard your hotel as “just a place to crash”, while you roam the streets getting turnt and making poor life decisions (hey, no judgement – we’ve all done it). But in actual fact, there’s plenty of hotels out there that are a total vacay unto themselves.
Take this absolutely insane pair of hotels based in the Netherlands for example. Someone decided that it would be an excellent idea to create giant sandcastle hotels as part of an annual sandcastle festival happening in the region. Yeah, like actual sandcastles. Made of actual sand.
Unsurprisingly, they’ve become a bit of a cult phenomenon. Both created by ZAND Hotels, they hotels are SNEEK in Friesland, and OSS in Brabant:
Staying the night will cost you 150 Euros, (approximately AU$238, based on the currently abysmal Aussie exchange rate). This going rate includes all the stuff that normal, boring hotels have, such as running water and electricity (we thought you might be curious if there’s functioning powerpoints in a hotel room made of sand, y’know?) plus you also get Wi-Fi, a full breakfast, and bottle of Prosecco and fresh fruit in the room on arrival. ~Nice~
Both hotels are only open for a temporary run throughout the festival, which wraps up in late September and early October. This year’s festival is devastatingly already sold out, but never fear – there’s already plans to do this again next year.
And, besides the obvious concerns regarding the Sandman, or sand residing in places that it shouldn’t be, both hotels seem totally worth a visit.
Images via Zand Hotel.
