{"id":4662,"date":"2012-05-07T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2012-05-07T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T02:43:00","slug":"struth-deep-sleep-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/05\/struth-deep-sleep-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"STRUTH! Deep Sleep Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yTb7-yWnK5c\/T6c2yIFT_5I\/AAAAAAAAUtU\/Yn_UsqvD2JY\/s1600\/Dubai%2Bwater-discus-underwater-hotel-1-799291.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5739616484898111378\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yTb7-yWnK5c\/T6c2yIFT_5I\/AAAAAAAAUtU\/Yn_UsqvD2JY\/s320\/Dubai%2Bwater-discus-underwater-hotel-1-799291.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that not content to have a hotel within the tallest building in the world, Dubai is now going in the opposite direction \u2013 it&#8217;s going to have a hotel in which guests will spend their nights underwater. <\/p>\n<p>A Swiss company called BIG InvestConsult is behind what it calls the Water Discus Hotel, an almost-James Bond-like structure that will consist of two main discs that will look like what its name suggests \u2013 one discus-shaped several metres above the water with several smaller discs projected off it, and the other discus-shaped ten metres below the surface of the sea. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll be connected by a central circular cylinder and three narrower legs, with guests getting down to twenty-one glass-walled hotel rooms, a submerged dive room and a bar by lifts in the main supporting cylinder. <\/p>\n<p>The hotel&#8217;s designers, Deep Ocean Technology say holidaymakers will go to bed with views of live coral, fish and other marine life, while the over-water discus will allow them to take-in the above-water views, sunshine and full dining and bar and recreational facilities. <\/p>\n<p>And if you are worried about the likelihood of a little leak possibly becoming a major one, the underwater discus will automatically rise immediately to the sea&#8217;s surface in the event of any danger. <\/p>\n<p>(Photo: BIG InvestConsult) <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that not content to have a hotel within the tallest building in the world, Dubai is now going in the opposite direction \u2013 it&#8217;s going to have a hotel in which guests will spend their nights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}