Showing posts with label HOTELS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HOTELS. Show all posts

Saturday, May 8, 2010


Day dreaming about your favorite book, the hobbit? Well, why dream it when you can live the real thing? The plane's leaving for Woodlyn Park, New Zealand! Here, we find our destination: the Hobbit Motel. Carefully chiseled into a grassy hill, this legendary motel is designed to look just like the ones in the book you've all read thousands of times. Each room is equipped with curious furniture, eccentric bunks, and a comfy atmosphere.

The Hobbits also conveniently located near the Billy Black's Kiwi Culture Show, which is an amazing show combining New Zealand history and heritage with a hilarious, interactive farm show. The show has it all! You can light the fuse to blow up a log, see a kiwi bear(that's the Aussie word for ''possum"), a dancing pig, and other bush animals, watch sheep dogs at work, help shear the sheep(there's a lot of shearing in the show), or saw down a log.

Thankfully, the motels do not match the original portion of size, as real hobbits are only 3 to 4 feet tall. It is not Middle Earth, but it is in the land where the movies were filmed!


Thursday, April 15, 2010

Cold Hotel, Hot Spot!


It is so hot outside so I will post on something that will cool you down...

Secretly, you've always wanted to sleep in an igloo(I know you pretty well, don't I?). So I have decided to help you: shiver on over to the Kirkenes Snow Hotel in Kirkenes, Norway. Every guest sleeps in one of 15 private, luxurious igloo suites, each containing 2 beds carved out of ice equipped with reindeer pelt blankets(so you don't freeze to death), a small table made of ice, and lots of ice and snow artwork. There is also an Ice Bar in the hotel; it is a fully working bar-made completely out of ice! Kirkenes Hotel is also home to the biggest sled dog farm and you can take a "dog safari" throughout the arctic wilderness and even search for Aurora Borealis(that's the Northern Lights for those who like it simple). There is also a reindeer farm where you can pet, feed, and take pictures with the reindeer without a gate to separate you and the reindeer. This might sound cold to you, but inside it is supposed to be warmer. Wow, this is one cool place!