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Weird It Up at the Controversy Tram Hotel

Where: Hoogwoud, Netherlands

With a name like the Controversy Tram Hotel, we were kind of expecting a great tale of social injustice and government corruption to be behind this unusual hotel in Hoogwoud, the Netherlands. Not to be. It's simply named after a Prince album the owners loved.

The accommodation here consists of two former street trams converted into four themed bedrooms: Italian and French (you can smoke in both of these) and English and American (non-smoking). The owners' house is next door, and includes a London double-decker bus installed in the living room, which they've converted to a bedroom. On site is also a video library, converted from an oil rig escape pod (but looking far more like a UFO).

If you haven't already worked out that owners Frank and Irma are just a little bit crazy, you would probably learn this soon after arrival. But their prices are very reasonable, with a night in a tram costing 60 Euros (about $80), less if you book consecutive nights. Five-star comfort it's not, but five-star weird it is.

[Photo: Controversy Tram]

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