Forget 5-star hotels with their plush meeting rooms and individually-wrapped Mentos (we love those things, by the way). If you want to do something really different for your next meetings incentives conferences exhibitions, perhaps consider the world’s wackiest hotels as nominated by global groups and incentives organisers, BCD Travel.
Adventurous types might not mind diving to get to their hotel at Jules Undersea Lodge
in Key Largo, Florida. Located 21 feet below the sea, it used to be a marine science lab but is now a fully functioning hotel with hot showers and great views…of coral and fish.
Corporate travel wine buffs will appreciate the Hotel Marques de Riscal in Spain, a former winery estate dating back 139 years that underwent a $100M renovation in 2006.
If a volcanic eruption doesn’t stop you flying, you can sleep in a hotel made of volcanic rock at the Gamirasu Cave Hotel in Turkey. About 1,000 years old and a former monastery, VIP corporate travellers are encouraged to book a ‘cave suite’ featuring a jacuzzi and private terrace.
If you want to stick with semi-regular hotels for meetings incentives conferences exhibitions, try the world’s biggest hotel – the First World Hotel in Malaysia. It will blow your mind with its 6,118 rooms and a neighbouring indoor theme park.