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Airplane hotel makes you feel like you never actually arrive
Personally, I hate being on airplanes. Sure, it's great to travel, but getting there is flat-out miserable. Which is why I don't quite understand the appeal of hotels built out of old airplanes, like this new resort opening up in Quepos, Costa Rica.
The Costa Verde Resort features a hotel suite built inside a 1965 Boeing 727 airplane. The plane was brought piece by piece from San Jose airport, and is clearly missing all of the important stuff that allowed it to fly in a former life. But it still looks like an airplane. Luckily, inside is done up to look like a hotel room, albeit one with little round windows all along it. Personally, I'd rather stick to a regular hotel room, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
Costa Verde, Via Inhabitat
By bubba at 4:00 PM ON 04/13/09
now do you still get mile high credit for it?
it would kinda be the same as a plane taxing to the terminal, wouldn't it?
By IsoTek at 5:01 AM ON 04/14/09
Kinda reminds me of the smugglers plane on LOST. Probably no heroin filled Virgin Mary statues inside though. I think they used an airplane set on the 1980's Brave New World Telefilm for the luxury hotel. This ought to be interesting.
By necrosage2005 at 11:03 AM ON 04/20/09
Remember back in the day when flying was a luxury? You had lots of room to sit, get up, walk around, and got things for free. Now we get to be crammed into a flying coffin with a bunch of other rats that we are forced to call passengers so that we can listen to babies that cry endlessly and have to pay for everysingle thing, including a little more room if someone is "over weight" all so that the company can make a bigger paycheck for its executives. No thanks. This sardine will stay home, no matter how much I love to fly and visit new places to explore our world.
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