Sand sculptors from the Netherlands has been realizing a childhood fantasy with real life creating the world's first sand castle hotel complete with bridge and tower.
Curious tourists and young at heart flocked in the summer led to a small town in the southern Netherlands, Oss, to spend the night in a special room built inside a large building made of sand.
The sand castle built of sand tons and reinforced with wood. The space inside provide a unique experience to spend the night in a real sand castle and equipped with sand sculptures carved.
"This is crazy! I wanted to do something special and it was a childhood dream I slept on the sand castle," said a Dutch mechanic after sleeping at Hotel sand castle to celebrate a wedding anniversary, told AFP.
Manager of sand castle Hotel, Maud Van Leeuwen said the idea of building this hotel inspired
Of
ice hotels in Finland and Sweden. Resorts popular in Scandinavia have sprung up
in the winter and bring a bed of ice and a room temperature of around minus
eight degrees Celsius.
"We have a lot of ice and sand artist and we thought why not build a sand?" said Van Leuween AFP.
To be able to stay at the Hotel sandcastle, tourists are charged 150 euro. Such as ice hotels in Scandinavia, sand hotel was built as a temporary art works and will be destroyed at the end of summer.
AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL Dunand Atmosphere bedrooms first sand castle hotel in the world built from tons of sand lining the timber. , Curious tourists and young at heart flocked in the summer led to a small town in the southern Netherlands, Oss to stay at a price of 150 euros (167 US dollars) per night, in a specially-built room deep inside the heart of the massive castle sculpture made entirely of sand. Two sand hotel built in the Netherlands in the annual sand sculpture festival is held each year: one in Oss and the second in the north Frisian cities Sneek. AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL Dunand
"We have a lot of ice and sand artist and we thought why not build a sand?" said Van Leuween AFP.
To be able to stay at the Hotel sandcastle, tourists are charged 150 euro. Such as ice hotels in Scandinavia, sand hotel was built as a temporary art works and will be destroyed at the end of summer.
AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL Dunand Atmosphere bedrooms first sand castle hotel in the world built from tons of sand lining the timber. , Curious tourists and young at heart flocked in the summer led to a small town in the southern Netherlands, Oss to stay at a price of 150 euros (167 US dollars) per night, in a specially-built room deep inside the heart of the massive castle sculpture made entirely of sand. Two sand hotel built in the Netherlands in the annual sand sculpture festival is held each year: one in Oss and the second in the north Frisian cities Sneek. AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL Dunand
The two hotels were built in the Dutch sand located at the sand sculpture festival held in Oss and the second one in the Frisian town north Sneek. Oss, guests can admire a collection of dinosaur sculptures, medieval explorers and robots "Journey Past Asia" is the theme in Sneek.
