HotelChatter - Key Largo

The Original Underwater Hotel is Still Alive and Kicking

juliana — 2010-10-01T13:12:52-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/julesundersealodge_mainroom.jpg" class="top"> What better way to follow up yesterday's story on the latest <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/9/30/121840/749/hotels/How_Many_More_Times_Do_We_Have_to_Hear_About_a_Planned_Space_Hotel_">Space Hotel</a> with an update on the progress of another ambitious category of hotels? <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/underwater Hotels">Underwater Hotels!</a> Fortunately for you adventure-seekers, underwater hotels seem to be more "do-able" than Space Hotels. While Istanbul, Dubai and the Bahamas have still not opened their planned underwater hotels, we have seen an underwater suite open at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/4/20/121716/281/hotels/Finally_An_Underwater_Hotel_Surfaces_Kind_Of">Conrad Maldives</a>. However, if you truly want an underwater hotel experience, the place to be under the sea remains the <a href="http://www.jul.com">Jules Undersea Lodge</a> (named after explorer Jules Verne) in Key Largo, Fla. We discovered this place way back in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/underwater%20hotels/2">2003</a> and it looks like not much has

'Tinkerbell' Tends the Garden at the Kona Kai Resort

juliana — 2009-11-02T16:46:18-05:00

Before we left on Friday to celebrate the Halloween weekend we Tweeted for hotel staffers working in Halloween costumes over the weekend to send us some pics. And we have to say, Tinkerbell at the Kona Kai Resort, a B&B in Key Largo, Florida is the best. Not only does she look cute, but she's actually still able to water the garden. Where form meet functionality.

Rates here start at $244 a night but they do not take online reservations. Go here for booking information. Thanks for sending this in, Tinks!

We're still accepting hotel Halloween costumes if you want to send 'em along. And don't forget to follow HotelChatter on Twitter!

Casual Cheap at Coconut Bay Resort

pbb — 2007-03-09T14:32:43-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/coconut_bay.jpg" class="imgborder"/>As long as we're talking about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/8/104422/2563/hotels/Cubicle_Dreamin_Punta_del_Este">beach getaways</a>, we should mention the Florida Keys. The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Coconut+Bay+Resort/local/346">Coconut Bay Resort</a> in Key Largo is just the ticket. The hotel (and its web site for that matter) aren't going to win any awards from Wallpaper*, but renovations a few years ago spruced up some rooms. Caveat emptor, though, as one guest warns:<blockquote>Great place to stay as long as you get a good room. Do Not stay in unit 8 which is in need of a few repairs. Apparently it is not one of the rooms that has been renovated yet. We asked to move after the first night because of its appearance and the constant trampling of feet in

Diving away to Key Largo

markj — 2004-11-18T05:12:42-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/jul.jpg"> We had it all...just like Bogie and Bacall...sailing away to Key Largo. Though this photo looks like it was taken back in the early eighties when "Key Largo" was buring up Casey Kasem's top 40, <a href="http://www.jul.com">Jules' Undersea Lodge</a> still claims to be the only underwater lodge in the world (for now). Guests don a scuba suit and dive down to their room where their marine environment come equipped with limitless air supplied by 100 foot long hookah lines. The Lodge began as the La Chalupa research labratory, and underwater habitat used to explore the continental shelf off the coast of Puerto Rico. All that and co-developer Ian Koblick says, "Marine life is actually enhanced by the