Where imagination has no limits.

Numerous classifications have already been made of the hotels in the world according to income, room prices or exploitation. lt has also been investigated how satisfied the guests are and how many of them return etc.

This list is different.

I have collected the hotels that are beyond the average. On entering the average tourist exclaims: "Wow, that is great!"

If he can say something at all. As, for instance, one of the fantastic hotels of the world can only be reached having mouthpiece in the mouth and scuba on the back, because the mini-hotel is deep under seawater. There is a hotel that was built among the leaves of the trees, where elephants trumpet below during dinner. There is a hotel made of ice in Sweden, where the guests can sleep in fur sleeping bags on ice-beds. A man-made sea came true around the Palace of the Lost City in South Africa, and for the sake of full illusion surfing on the waves produced by a machine is also possible. The sunken seventh continent was recreated and Atlantis re-established on the Bahamas, where the slide of the swimming pool leads through a tunnel of sharks.

There is a hotel looking like New York, another like Paris, yet another like Egypt or Moscow in miniature. Andre Agassi himself played tennis on the helipad of the Burj Al Arab Hotel, which forms a sail in Dubai.

Fantasy has no limits. Tourists in Canada can even decide whether they want to have a rest in an igloo, at the back of a wagon, on a hood of a truck or in a room recalling the tropic jungle.

You may swim with marine turtles on Bora Bora. You may train dolphins in Xcaret or sunbathe with iguanodons on the Galapagos.

One thing is common: each hotel is astonishing and fantastic. The hotels did not pay for being in this book. This list has been set up by a Central-European journalist who has been travelling for 16 years, shot several dozens of films and got acquainted with an endless number of hotels in the course of his work.

Enjoy yourselves!

Dr. Richard Robert Kiss