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You Can Actually Stay In These Spectacular Caves Around The World
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Staying at a unique hotel with breathtaking views of otherworldly landscapes is many vacationers' dream that can easily become a reality. The location and accommodations of certain lodgings may even astonish the most experienced travelers.

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Desert Cave Hotel, Australia
While there are above ground options, you can opt out for the dug-out style living and find everything you need underground – from rooms to stores and bars. The rooms are spacious with high ceilings, quiet, cool, dark and airy. Go on a specialized tour to explore the surrounding rugged and stunning outback. Drive over to Lake Eyre, the lowest natural point in Australia at approximately 50 feet below sea level. Underground rooms are about $160 per night.Photo Credit: Desert CaveClick Here to See Caves You Can Actually Stay In Around the World
Cappadocian Cave Hotels, Turkey
Cappadocia is a semi-arid region in central Turkey that is most famous for odd rock formations clustered in Monks Valley. Tourists go to explore Bronze Age homes carved into valley walls by cave dwellers and later used as refuges by early Christians. There are many hotels you can stay in including the Uchisar Cave Pansion, which offers hiking, horseback riding, hot air balloon tours as well as bike tours. Other popular choices are Kısmet Cave House in Göreme, known for its colorful rooms, Serinn House, a small cave inn, and Cappadocia Cave Suites with folk and handicraft items as décor. Some of the 33 guest rooms even have a Jacuzzi. The rate is about $100 per night.Photo Credit: Hotel Cappadocia
Sala Silvermine, Sweden
Sala Silvermine is known as the deepest hotel room in the world at 500 feet underground. It can only be accessed through a mine lift shaft. As you can imagine, there is no room service or anything you’d expect in a luxurious hotel, except a comfortable double bed, silver furnishings and champagne platter. It’s cold and damp, but absolutely gorgeous. One night in the bizarre suite will cost about $500. Sala Silvermine, as the name suggests, was a mine, which produced about 3 tons of silver a year used mostly for coins.Photo Credit: Trip Advisor/ Sala Silvermine, SwedenClick Here to See Caves You Can Actually Stay In Around the World
Hotel Marhala, Tunisia
Star Wars fans are going to love Hotel Marhala. Some scenes, mostly from Episode IV were shot there. Rooms are dug into the ground, remnants of a constructed underground town dating back to the 4th century. The experience may even feel a bit like camping, but with beds and other simple accommodations. “The rooms are quite basic and the bathroom is shared, but they have a good bar and the Wi-Fi in the lobby is good,” one person wrote on TripAdvisor.Photo Credit: Flickr/ Dennis Jarvis CC BY-SA 2.0C
The Lava Cave, Greece
Santorini, an island in the Aegean Sea, is a dream vacation for any adventurer, especially those who like unconventional trips such as hiking an active volcano or staying in cave dwellings. Caves are even available for rent on AirBnb and usually cost around $350 per night. The Lava Caves Suite, and its pearl white walls, is minute away from the ruins of the old castle. It features a comfy bedroom, living room, kitchenette, private veranda, Jacuzzi, and views of the Caldera’s rugged volcanic beauty. Click Here to See Caves You Can Actually Stay In Around the WorldPhoto Credit: Facebook/ Lava Caves

When four boring walls, a large bed and a mini-bar fridge are acceptable but not exciting, use your imagination and book a cave. Not all underground rooms are equal. Some are luxurious, while others are very basic. In any case, they all have their own unique history and mystery.

The advantages of staying in a cave room are numerous - no humidity, constant cool temperature, serenity and calmness, and no crowds or loud noises.

Some of the caves on the list have been used to shoot movies. Star Wars fans are going to love Hotel Marhal in Tunisia. The adrenaline-seekers will like Sala Silvermine because it's the deepest hotel room in the world at 500 feet underground. Those who can't go to Sweden can travel to Arizona to stay in the Grand Canyon Caverns, also known as at the "largest, deepest, darkest, oldest, quietest motel room in the world."

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