Monday, 30 November 2009

8 Unusual, Unique Places to Stay at Christmas

Tis the season to be jolly..and incase you are still looking for inspiration on where to escape this Christmas. Rare Retreats has hand-picked a collection of the world's most unique and unusual places to stay, with the added bonus of offering Special Offers over the festive period.
Whether you fancy a Christmas on a private secluded island, a treehouse escape in a living rainforest, or a musical retreat-where reggae legend Bob Marley used to spend time convalescing.
Style: Music

Perched 3,100 feet above sea level in the Blue Mountains and 30 minutes from the airport, Strawberry Hill Hotel & Spa offers an enchanting mix of rich Jamaican heritage balanced by healthy conscious living.

Today, Strawberry Hill's Bar and Conference Room is home to a significant photographic tour of music's most influential players over the past four decades. Guests at the mountaintop retreat can visually experience personal photos from Mr. Blackwell's collection, which includes shots of U2, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, Mick Jagger, Phil Collins, Millie Small, Sinehead O'Conner, Peter Tosh, and Sting (and studies from the Adrian Boot Collection).
These photographs are found in the company of a legendary assortment of platinum disc awards from artists Mr. Blackwell and Island Records has either produced or nurtured including King Crimson, Traffic, Cat Stevens, Dru Hill, U2, Melissa Etheridge, and Nine Inch Nails. There is an entire wall of gold and platinum discs earned by Island Records from the sale of Bob Marley LPs from Catch a Fire to Legend.

Inside Info: Rates from $300 per couple, per night. Rolling Stones have vacationed here and Bob Marley spent time convalescing here, after being shot in 1976.

Style: Cliffside, Architect Designed

Jade Mountain is St. Lucia's only resort property with the iconic view of both the Piti and Gros Piton mountains floating upon the Caribbean Sea. The location of the property is unsurpassed, rising majestically above the private estate of ANSE CHASTANET with 600 lush tropical acres bordering two soft, sand Caribbean beaches with pristine coral reefs just off shore. Part of the estate is the historical plantation of Anse Mamin and Emerald Estate where the resort grows its own organic produce. Architect Nick Troubetzkoy designed this wonderful retreat.

Inside Info: Rates from $850 per couple, per night.

Style: Film/Movie Location

The design of the Soho Grand Hotel mirrors the chic, art-forward nature of the neighborhood surrounding it. The Soho Grand is a hip New York luxury hotel that quickly becomes a way of life. The hotel design’s permeating sense of sophistication is a signature trait of interior designer William Sofield of Studio Sofield, who created the clean, romantically eclectic space with one eye on the street and the other in the heavens, using such historic neighborhood materials as the glass-bottle staircase, the intricate cast-iron detailing, and concrete pillars—all of which create a seamless leap from the streets outside to the finest New York City accommodations inside. Used as a film/movie location for How To Lose Friends & Alienate People.

Inside Info: Rates from $144 per night, per couple.

Style: Film/Movie Location

Hotel 71 is a modern urban boutique hotel experience, perfectly located on the Chicago River at Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue, "the Magnificent Mile". The hotel's fresh style, large rooms and suites, beautifully appointed meeting space, friendly service and an unrivalled location at the epicenter of downtown Chicago, make it the best luxury hotel for both business and leisure travelers. Used as a film/movie location for The Dark Knight

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Inside Info: Rates from $144 per night, per couple.

Style: Treehouse

Only 15 tranquil rainforest villas (treehouses) occupy secluded positions amongst the world's oldest living rainforest... reinforcing the impression of being 'at one with nature', yet still providing all the creature comforts of a boutique retreat.

Inside Info: Rates from AUS $223 per night, per couple.

Style: Secluded Island

With just 16 architecturally refined Villas nestled into the rainforest, Bedarra is very much a place for the dedicated few.

Venture from your Villa and discover exquisite food, flawless service and secluded beaches.
Slip away to a private bay with a gourmet hamper and your own dinghy or indulge with a therapeutic spa treatment. On Bedarra it’s all about peace, privacy, and the ultimate in tropical style luxury.

Inside Info: Rates from $1700 per room, per night.

Style: Secluded Island/Religious

The Steigenberger Inselhotel Konstanz welcomes you to one of the most beautiful regions in Germany – Lake Constance. Located in the old-town on a small private island, in an ancient, former Dominican Monastery – the hotel offers a truly unique environment for its guests. A bridge leads you to the romantic old-town with its interesting lanes and alleys.

Inside Info: Rates from Euros 174 per night, per couple.

Fjallnas Reserve, Sweden
Style: Did you know?

Fjällnäs, Sweden’s oldest mountain hotel, is an exclusive sanctuary where you can experience continual, dramatic changes of nature. We live with this unspoilt wilderness right on our doorstep during eight totally different seasons. The air is pure and whenever you want, you can quench your thirst with water from the clear mountain lake. When Fjällnäs’s first visitors arrived more than 130 years ago, they were attracted by the pure, unspoilt, beauty – and this is still the same today.

Inside Info: Rates from SEK 800 per night, per couple.

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