View? None. It’s a converted bunker. But it’s popular.
There are plenty of crapo hotel/hotels on the subcontinent and in Africa that would make this place look luxurious, but it’s impressively low-end for Europe.
The Null Stern hotel near Zurich costs 6 pounds per night. Bed and no breakfast. But you get some ear plugs included to keep out the snoring from fellow guests in the communal rooms and a hot water bottle is available upon request.
Stuck in an elevator for 45 minutes over 120 floors from the ground, people stranded on the observation deck, smoke, small explosion heard — suddenly that $110 immediate entry fee to take a lift to the top is starting to feel … well, adventurous. Maybe they should capitalize — just play it up as adventure travel or extreme tourism. After all, the fee is on par with the cost of a bungy jump. If they just make you sign a waiver and hand out parachutes, they might event be able to attract a higher-paying, more exclusive visitor.
The Eyre Peninsula’s aquaculture industry is now offering a unique experience. Divers and snorkelers can immerse themselves in large schools of tens of thousands of fish which — thanks to fishing nets — offer a concentration that is impossible to find in the wild.
Each of these pens holds up to 25,000 yellowtail kingfish, which can reach more than two metres in length and weigh up to 65kg. Lacking a sense of space, they rub against and swim straight into divers. Other excited fish rapidly circle the pen, creating a whirlpool.
Sounds like a nice idea. An amphibious bus that can travel on water and roads. Sadly (or comically if you prefer) it was grounded, less than an hour after it got wet.
The $1.5 million Dutch-made “amfibus” was being demonstrated for service between Renfrew and Yoker when things went pear shaped. Mechanics are hoping to have it swimming again by tomorrow.
In theory, it runs like a normal bus on land, but uses two water jets to carry 50 passengers at speeds up to eight knots in the water.
Australians are making a mark for themselves as creators of bold (or cheeky or raunchy) tourism campaigns. Following on the heels of “Where the bloody hell are ya?!” and “”Cairns – Great Up Top, Fun Down Under,” Queensland’s Mission Beach has decided to go for “Get high, get wet and get laid.” So much for taking the high road.
Sure there’s a Great Barrier Reef just off shore and popular white water rafting nearby, but why push those natural resources when you can promote sex and cannabis?
Scotty’s Beach House owner Boyd Scott said the signs have hit the mark. Really? Sex and pot are popular with backpackers? Go figure.
The Holiday Inn hotel chain in Britain has just upped the weirdness ante with human bed warmers. That is, people (wearing “sleeper suits”) who get into your bed and warm it. Isn’t that why they clean the sheets between guests — because you don’t want to sleep in the same sheets some stranger has just slept in? And what could be stranger than a person who hops from bed to bed? Besides, it’s sounds like low-hanging fruit for sexual predators.
Cruise ships are still plying the waters beside Haiti. You don’t want to let a little earthquake suffering ruin your trip, do you? Indulge at the buffet, splash in the surf and happily ignore the tens of thousands without food, water, medical care or shelter. Sure the cruise lines could cancel a few cruises and help with humanitarian relief efforts, but what’s a cruise line company going to do with a bunch of great PR and a clear conscience? Naturally, they need to focus on the core business of pummeling local cultures into oblivion (via tourist invasion), overfeeding sunburned passengers and secretly dumping as much waste into the ocean as they can get away with.
Finally an even more kitsch alternative to visiting Hollywood homes: gang tourism. You can see the LA County Jail, Skid Row (home to 90,000 homeless people) and gang hangouts instead. Couldn’t get tickets to a game show? How about checking out the top crime scene locations instead.
On the upside, the tour hopes to create jobs for residents and hand back a percentage of the profits.
Just make sure you’re covered by travel insurance. To join the tour ($65 with lunch), you’ll need to sign the mother of all waivers.
If one wanted to put a positive spin on this exhibit at a Polish zoo, it may help to remind people that animals aren’t mean to live in zoos.
But that’s not exactly the intention. It’s to show that people are animals as well. Next best thing, perhaps. Deputy director Ewa Zbornikowska said the project is “a playful attempt to inspire people to think about the place of humans in the universe.”
The man and woman will spend the day in a former monkey cage grooming each other, keeping a fire going and staring back at zoo visitors. No mating rituals are planned.
The people charged with taking care of the UK’s most precious works of art at top museums have an interesting track record. This includes 18 incidents relating to V&A exhibits, Anish Kapoor’s work Ishi’s Light (pictured above) at the Tate Modern, pieces by Andy Warhol and Tracey Emin, baroque sculptures, dinosaur bones and more… all damaged. See the full story here.
Hard to imagine a 25-year-old local scam artist is so dangerous to the public that it was worth endangering the lives of many by opening fire in a crowded public spot. Or enough to kill him, which is what they did. Watched too many movies? Poor judgment call? Poor training? Personally prefer the practice in Europe, where typically let the guy get away (and try to catch him later), rather than start a public gun fight that might kill or wound many onlookers.
It wasn’t enough to load a London parade with a bunch of American cheerleaders. In an effort to capture a larger American TV audience and provide more postcard-like shots of London, organizers of the City’s New Year’s Parade have decided to turn things around … literally. They’re marching the parade in the opposite direction. Hope those Americans appreciate all the effort. They’ve managed to change tradition without even asking for it.
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A 19-year-old Ukranian tourist decided to clip down a 30 meter cliff on Sydney’s Manly beaches, then got stuck and passed out on a ledge.
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