Fantasy land: amazing hotels

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Fantasy land: amazing hotels

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Hotels are going to amazing lengths (and heights) to get attention.

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Attention-seekers ... an artist's impression of Fiji's underwater Poseidon resort, due to open next year, which will have 24 suites.

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The Poseidon will be set in a coral lagoon teeming with wildlife.Credit:AFP

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Artist's impression of the library at Fiji's planned Poseidon resort.

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The Galactic Suite space resort (galacticsuite.com) plans to welcome its first guests in 2012, treating them to 15 sunsets a day as it orbits the globe. At about $4 million for the experience, including astronaut training, it's not for the budget-minded.

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The Daspark Hotel consists of three separate drainpipes deposited in a riverside park. Each has been designed by art graduate Andrea Strauss.

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The Hydropolis is a proposed 220-room resort in the Persian Gulf complete with, wait for it, a cosmetic surgery clinic ? the theory being that underwater is the best place to hide while those scars heal.

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Two brothers in the Swiss town of Sevelen have transformed a former nuclear bunker into the Zero-Star Hotel, called the Null Stern.

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Attention seeker ... Dubai's Atlantis hotel, where rooms look out on to giant aquariums.

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Volkswagen's Hotel Fox was built in 2005 to promote the car maker's Fox 21 and 21 artists were invited to design the 61 rooms. Think pure fantasy in every room with totally over-the-top modern art design to match.

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The Six Senses group of eco resorts offers guests to its glamorous Zighy Bay resort in Oman three choices of arrival ? come by speedboat James Bond-style, drive through the desert or paraglide in.

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The partnering of hotel with high-end brand names has been happening for a while now. Newcomer Missoni opened its own hotel doors in Scotland in June.

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The Roger Smith Hotel in New York teamed with Real Live Billboards for a publicity stunt earlier this year. It gave away a five-night stay in the hotel to a couple willing to stay in a replica of a guest room on the ground floor. The catch? They had to keep the curtains open from 4.30pm to 7.30pm daily, allowing passersby to watch them.Credit:AP