Tremblant Lifestyle

From the strangest, to the smallest, to the kinkiest, when it comes to hotels, we’ve seen them all. But if there is one thing they all have in common, they are all on land. In the near future when booking a hotel room you will not only be asked whether you would prefer smoking or non-smoking, but whether you would prefer underwater, amongst the clouds, or hovering through space in the earth’s orbit.

Poseidon Undersea Resort

A wise crustacean named Sebastian once said “Under the sea, under the sea. Darling its better down where it’s wetter take it from me.” Since 2001, life-long diver and aquatic enthusiast L. Bruce Jones has been working side by side with engineers to design and realize his vision for the world’s first underwater hotel, scheduled to open next year. Currently under construction in Portland, Oregan, the Poseidon Undersea Resort will eventually be submerged and will rest along the bed of a 5,000 acre Fijian lagoon. Elevators will carry visitors to their luxurious suites forty feet below sea level, where nothing but four inch thick clear acrylic stands between them, and the surrounding aquatic wonderland.

For a mere $15,000 per person you get 2 nights in one of the underwater suites, 4 nights of beach accommodations on a “secret” and exotic Fiji island. The hotel itself is fully equipped with a spa, fitness center, library, revolving restaurant on the lagoon floor, conference rooms, and for anyone interested in an aquatic wedding there’s even the world’s first underwater chapel. During your stay you can learn how to pilot a submarine, explore the coral reef, scuba dive, or even trek along the sea floor.

Hydropolis

Also scheduled to open in Dubai is the £300m, 220-suite underwater hotel Hydropolis. It was supposed to be finished in 2007, making it the “first luxurious underwater hotel,” but delays have pushed the grand opening to 2009, placing Hydropolis neck-and-neck with Poseidon. (Although Poseidon will still be the first habitable sea floor structure)

Joachim Hauser, the developer and designer of the hotel, was hoping to be the first to create comfortable living arrangements underwater guided by his belief that “the future lies in the sea, including the future of city planning. I am certain that one day a whole city will be built in the sea. Our aim is to lay the first mosaic by colonising the sea.”

Manned Cloud

While L. Bruce Jones and Joachim Hauser are busy building their underwater worlds, French designer Jean-Marie Massaudis focuses his attention upwards as he aims to construct the world’s first luxury hotel in the sky. The 1,100 sq. meter helium-filled, whale shaped Airship can travel distances up to 5,000 consecutive km, and can comfortably accommodate 40 guests and 15 staff members. Get a blimp’s eye view of the world while enjoying the Manned Cloud’s restaurant, bar, fitness center, library, and terrace. The humanity!

Set to launch in 2020, the 2008 Design Observer Award-winning floating hotel can circle the globe in 10 days, offering passengers a panoramic view of the planet from 18,000 feet.

Galactic Suite

Around the world in 10 days not fast enough for ya? 18, 000 feet not high enough for ya? Well tough cookies sister. Because the odds of you being one of the 40,000 people on earth who can afford the $4 million to spend 3 days aboard the first hotel in space are fairly astronomical. “Pfftt! $4 million is pocket change!” you say? Well, you’ll also need to be available for the eight weeks of intensive space camp training. The wealthy few who make it into orbit will experience a view of the earth like no other, watching 15 sunrises as they circle the globe in 80 minutes. Suck on that every other resort on the planet.

Guests will wear “velcro suits to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.” Even after eight weeks of space camp, guests of the space hotel may suffer from “Drift-off-into-space-aphobia,” which is why a space shuttle will remain nearby at all times.