Five strangest hotels in the world

 The Sunday Times Traveller has ranked the 100 strangest hotels in the world. In their list you find everything from luxary hotels in cities to small cottages. This is how the top five looks like:

 1) The Ice Hotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden.

Sleep on a bed of ice…

2) Propeller Island City Lodge, Berlin, Germany

Here you can stay in a room that’s turned upside down. Or spend the nigth in a coffin…

3) Ngala Walking Camp, South Africa.

If you like to live in a tent among wild animals. This is the place…

4) The Orient Express, Train through Europe

Sleep on a train through Europe…

5) MV Explorer II, Antarctica

Take a cruise among the Ice Mountains…

London – the most expensive restaurant city in the world

 According to The Guardian is London the most expensive city in the world to eat in a restaurant. Number two on the list is Paris followed by Tokyo.

Europes Oldest Lifeguard

The oldest life guard in Europe is 88 years old and started working as life guard already in 1933.  The name of this Italian man is Pia Schiane and he was born in 1919.  He was just 14 years old when he started working as a life guard. He has worked on the Torvaianica Beach in Italy since 1959 and really enjoys it.

 - On the evenings when everyone has left the beach I spend a lot of time here talking to the beach, he says to Aftonbladet, a Swedish newspaper.

The best airports in the world

According to Skytrax this is the 10 best airports in the world, (is the result for 2006)

1. Hong Kong Int'l Airport (2)

2. Seoul Incheon Airport (5)

2. Singapore Changi Airport (1)

4. Munich Airport (3)

5. Kuala Lumpur Int'l Airport (6)

6. Zurich Airport (8)

7. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (11)

8. Vancouver Int'l Airport (15)

9. Kansai Int'l Airport (4)

10. Madrid Barajas Airport (22) 

If you are looking for clean toilets the best airport is Seoul Incheon Airport and at Auckland Airport in New Zealand you'll find the friendliest staff.

The survey is based on questions to 7,8 milion travelers in 170 airports all over the world.

Don’t reserve your sun reclining chair

Are you one of those who use to reserve a sun reclining chair by the pool with your towel? According to the Guardian you risk a penalty fee of about $1200 if you do that in Italy. If you are going to Diano Mariana in southern Italy you should be really careful because there have already been six people fined there.

Top 5 tourist attractions in the world

According to Forbes Traveler these are the top 5 tourist attractions in the world :

nr 5. Disneyland in California;

nr 4. Trafalgar Square in London;

nr 3. Disney World in Florida;

nr 2. National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, DC; and the

nr 1. place is Time Square in New York City, New York with 35 million visitors a year. That is equal to about 80% of all tourists that visit NY each year.