http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T23:29:03Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/underwater%20hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/10/1/13855/9567 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/julesundersealodge_mainroom.jpg" class="top"><p> 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"><b>Underwater Hotels!</b></a> <p>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>. <P>However, if you truly want an underwater hotel experience, the place to be under the sea remains the <a href="http://www.jul.com"><b>Jules Undersea Lodge</b></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 juliana 2010-10-01T13:12:52-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/4/20/121716/281 <![CDATA[<p><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/ConradMaldivesUnderwaterSuiteEMAIL.jpg" class="top"><p> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/underwater hotels"><b>Under Water Hotels</b></a> are sort of like our favorite joke here at HotelChatter. They've been hyped up for years but when it comes to actually opening, well, let's just say there's never been a real opening date set for any of these projects. Same goes for <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/space hotels">Space Hotels</a>.<p>But at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/CONRAD+MALDIVES/local/1116"><b>Conrad Maldives Rangali Island</b></a> they've put together a reasonable way to spend a night underwater---by turning their underwater restaurant, <b>Ithaa</b>, into a suite for two for an evening in honor of the restaurant's fifth anniversary. Guests who book the suite will get a private champagne dinner and breakfast in bed. Oh and the chance to wake up looking <i>up</i> (not down) at juliana 2010-04-20T14:23:40-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/1/7/01124/48174 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/IstUndHotel1.jpg" class="top"> <p>You know the feeling you get when you look at fantastical hotel models? You think: "wow wouldn't that be great! Too bad it'll never actually get built." Well, that's how we feel about the rumored <b>Underwater Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey</b>, which&#151;believe it or not&#151;is due to open later this year. <p>YEAH RIGHT. Nevermind that we don't have a name for the hotel (the rumor is it's called "Poseidon"--snore!) and nevermind that the information about the place is the same stuff being circulated since <a href="http://www.vagabondish.com/underwater-hotel-in-istanbul-to-open-in-2010/">early 2008</a>; we would really like to sleep in a 7-star hotel underwater, so we want it to work out, damnit. <p>Yes, you heard that right&#151;<b>this baby is aiming to be a 7-star JetSetCD 2010-01-07T09:17:41-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/18/20751/0000 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Great_Barrier_Reef_Fish.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>We are big fans of Queensland's incredible <b>Great Barrier Reef</b> and since we keep reading that it's kinda threatened by human activity and global warming, we're not really sure that we like the idea of the floating hotel called <b>Reefworld</b> that the UK <i>Times</i> reported about on the weekend.</p><p>They're saying that Reefworld will be the world's first "fully eco-friendly floating hotel" and includes eight underwater guestrooms. The bathrooms will have glass walls so all the fish will be able to see what you're up to in there! The plan is to combine it with a research facility, and also power the whole thing using solar panels and its own turbines and "underwater trickle-charge generators".</p><p>It sounds a bit amandak 2008-05-19T09:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/24/23419/9605 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/instanbul_underwater.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Planned <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Underwater%20Hotels"><b>Underwater Hotels</b></a> Poseidon (Fiji) and Hydropolis (Dubai) are getting some more competition.<p>Istanbul has announced its own plans for an underwater hotel which will open in 2010, the same year the city will be taking over as the Capital of Culture. From <a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/istanbul-underwater-hotel-7-floors-7-stars-below-sea-level">TrendHunter</a>:<blockquote><p> The underwater hotel is being built on the ruins of a historical 1930s tobacco factory and will have restaurants, exhibition halls, and rooms all with sea view rooms.<p>It will be interesting to check-in and check-out the underwater hotel rooms and facilities, as local experts suggest that the underwater visibility of the Istanbul Bosphorus Strait (which is the body of water that links the Black Sea, to the north, with the Sea of Marmara, juliana 2008-02-25T09:30:01-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/