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The trend for zany, unusual hotels has created fun, memorable places to stay – but also some that just sound downright unappealing …
CasAnus
It's a human large intestine-shaped sculpture complete with anus that you can sleep in. It's on a small island on a canal between Antwerp and Ghent in Belgium. We don't even want to know what the interior decor is like (unusualhotelsoftheworld.com/casanus).
Batman boat
If staying on a canal boat in Liverpool isn't fun enough in itself, The Joke is decorated on a Batman theme. Apparently it was built for the 1989 film, to be used as the Joker's Gotham home, but didn't make the cut (quirkyaccom.com).
Sewer pipe and concrete tube hotels
The rooms at Dasparkhotel (dasparkhotel.net) in Ottensheim, Austria, and Essen, Germany, are made from sections of concrete sewage pipes; while at Tubohotel (tubohotel.com) in Tepoztlán, Mexico, the entire hotel is made from concrete tubes.
Quarantine station
You can stay in the place where hundreds of people died without ever getting to set foot in Australia – at the Q Station retreat in Sydney harbour. As well as running spooky ghost tours to inform visitors about "disease, disempowerment and death", the boutique hotel also hosts conferences and weddings (qstation. com.au).
Hospital hotel
This three-star hotel is well-situated – on the Ile de la Cité, close to Notre Dame in Paris – but the surroundings don't sound too cheerful – it's on the sixth storey of a working hospital (hotel-hospitel.fr).
Hotel room like a hamster cage
You'll feel right at home at Villa Hamster in Nantes, France, as long as your name's Hammy. The pet-cage-themed gite comes with a two-metre-wide human wheel (uncoinchezsoi.net/lieux/la-ville-nantes/la-villa-hamster).
The UK's first clothes-free hotel
In Birmingham (cloverspa.co.uk).
