QUIMESTER WORK 1: The world`s best places to stay: some of the world`s quirkiest hotels

The world`s best places to stay: some of the world`s quirkiest hotels 1.- DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOPIC 1.1.- Read the following reading excerpt: The world`s best places to stay: some of the world`s quirkiest hotels

What do you want from a hotel? Something clean and comfortable for sure, but do you sometimes find your hotel room a little boring? Do you want your night to be as much as part of your vacation adventure as your days? Here are four recommendations for a stay you`ll never forget. A.- Palacio de Sal: Most of us know about the ice hotels in countries like Sweden, when everything, even your bed, is made out of ice. But this hotel in Bolivia is even more unusual; it is made out of salt. About 350 km. south of the city La Paz, this hotel is on the edge of the Salar de Uyuni, the world`s largest salt plain. It was built using around a million blocks of salt. Visitors report that the food in the restaurant is excellent, especially their famous “salt chicken.” There`s even a swimming pool, filled with salt water, of course!

B.- Jules` Undersea Lodge: Usually you can get a taxi to your hotel, but not here! To stay in this hotel in Key Largo, you need to scuba dive to reach the entrance. Once you are there, you can watch fish through the windows of your room. Amazingly, there are hot showers, and you can even get pizza delivered! Because you have to dive to get to the lodge, you need to be in good shape. If you have heart problems or are pregnant, this isn`t the place for you!

C.- Dog Bark Park Inn: This has to be one of the strangest-looking hotels in the world. Owned by a husband and wife team in Idaho, U.S. The entire hotel looks like a large wooden dog! Four people can sleep inside the dog. There`s even a room in its head. Rooms are filled with doggy decorations, and pets are, of course, welcome to stay with you!

D.- Chalkley`s Treehouse: A safari is all about being outdoors, isn`t it? It`s all about the animals and the wide open spaces. So why go into a building or a tent at night when you could stay under the stars in this treehouse on the Lion Sands Game Reserve in South Africa? You can lie in bed and look up the stars, watch the sun come up in the morning, and listen to the sound of animals and birds all around you. What could be more romantic?

E.-Around the world by hotel- bike: In 2001, Alastair Humphreys was studying to become a teacher, but he really wanted to do something different. A few months later, he surprised his friends and his family by beginning an amazing trip that took him around the world on his bike! In all, Alastair visited 60 countries and throughout the trip, he kept a blog to record all of his experiences. Although there were some special moments on the road, there was also disappointment and disaster. The police stopped him while he was travelling through Egypt. The trip was rough, and Alastair did not have enough money to stay at nice hotels. While he was riding to Patagonia, he didn`t take a shower for 24 days! But it was so cold that Alastair`s beard froze while they were travelling to Siberia.

Resource: Personal Best Workbook Unit 3: Keep on traveling page 19; Student Book page 26.