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The World’s Best “Un-hotels”
sure, there’s a time and place for the standard hotel stay.
But there are other nights when you just want to bunk
in a teepee, tree house or Tudor castle
By kellie daVenpoRT
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Thornbury Castle: a hotel
fit for a king or queen
1 Tudor castle
2 Teepee
thornbury Castle in
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WINTER 2016
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Afloat on
the Seine
3 Victorian carriage
4 River barge
No need to travel the globe
to lay your head in a quirky
spot: At West Edmonton
Mall’s Fantasyland Hotel,
get some shut-eye in an
ornately decorated replica
of a 19th-century carriage.
It’s just one of the 120
fantasy-themed suites at
the over-the-top hotel.
The name says it all: off
paris Seine is moored just
off Paris in the Seine river
on the Left Bank. Rooms
range from ship-chic cabins
to full-on French luxury.
Even if you don’t stay at
the city’s first floating
hotel, it’s worth a visit to
the bar for a cocktail.
casTlE: NIxoN dEsIgN; sEINE: célINE dEmoux
It’s a childhood dream come
Gloucestershire, England is
true: Camping out in a
the real deal: It was once
teepee! And you can do
owned by King
so right here in
Henry VIII.
Alberta. Book
The lusty
one of five
monarch
teepees in
even honeyWaterton
mooned
Lakes
here in
National
1533 with
Park’s
his doomed
Crandell
queen, Anne
Mountain
Boleyn. Today,
Campground.
2
the royal abode has
Kick
back around
Tranquil teepees
in Waterton Lakes
been transformed
a crackling fire,
into a modern hotel with a
roast marshmallows and
dungeon dining room and
gaze at the stars before
grand ballroom for feasts.
retiring to your cozy tent.