The strangest and most impressive hotels around the world
What makes a perfect hotel?
Is it a great location? Good facilities? A comfy bed?
Or is it something a little more out of the ordinary.
Around the world are plenty of hotels that are very much born from thinking outside the box. Read through to see some of the most impressive hotels that you can actually stay in.
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Deep Sleep, the world's deepest hotel
Not for the faint of heart, Deep Sleep is a hotel embedded deep in the earth, 420 metres below the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales.
The adventure camp, with log cabins and a grotto room built into the rock, is accessed by journeying down through an abandoned Victorian slate mine.
Palms Casino Resort, the world's most expensive hotel suite
For an extravagant night out in Vegas, you can't go past the Empathy Suite at Palm Casinos. It goes for $100k ($151k AUD) per night and has two king bedrooms.
The suite also has massage rooms, a jacuzzi, a salt room, a private pool and a 24-hour butler service.
Guests who can prove they have a credit card with a limit of over $1 million can stay in the Palms' Empathy Suite free of charge.
Otherwise, you pay the room rate and get $10k worth of casino credit.
Lexis Hibiscus Port Dickson, the hotel with the most pools
This five-star beach resort in Malaysia is home to 643 pools - the most in the world.
Each villa at this resort has its own private swimming pool, which only has to be at least 1.5 by 2 metres in area to be considered a pool for the Guinness World Record.
The resort also holds the record for the most overwater villas, with 522.
Suitcase Hotel, once the world's smallest hotel
Though it no longer exists, this suitcase-shaped box was once the world's smallest hotel, found at the back of a railway museum in Germany.
Measuring 2.7 by 1.2 metres, it cost just 15 Euros per night and slept two.
Hotel Everest View, the world's highest hotel
Hotel Everest View sits 13,000 feet high in Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park, with stunning mountain views from every window.
It can be reached via helicopter or a multi-day trek.
Icehotel, the world's largest hotel made of ice
Icehotel Sweden has been open since 1989, and is made entirely from ice and snow.
Occupying a mix of permanent buildings and seasonal ice structures, it's a perfect vantage point for seeing the northern lights.
Grand Hyatt Shanghai, the hotel with the world's longest laundry chute
Found at the top of an 88-floor tower in China, this hotel offers dizzying views through an atrium to the lobby below.
Hidden away in back corridors, you'll find something even more impressive: a laundry chute that stretches all the way from the 87th floor to the basement of the tower, 330 metres long.
First World Hotel, the world's biggest hotel
Just outside Kuala Lumpur, this hotel has a staggering 7,351 rooms.
Guests can enjoy the 500,000 square foot plaza, with shopping malls, arcades, food outlets, casinos, an indoor theme park and a mini stage for weekly performances.
The Gevora, the world's tallest hotel
Found in Dubai, the Gevora is 356 meters tall. It has 529 rooms including penthouse suites with million-dollar views.
The outdoor pool also offers sweeping vistas of Dubai.
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