Sleep it Off Inside a Wine Cask

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Posted on March 15, 2009 by Paula Mitchell Bentley in Architecture, Travel

Wine Cask Hotel de Vrouwe van Stavoren

Ever found that you drink a little too much on holidays?  Now you can sleep it off inside of a wine cask in these   14,500 litre casks turned into hotel rooms.  The Hotel de Vrouwe van Stavoren in the Netherlands offers you the opportunity to choose from one of their four upcycled rooms that are amazingly comfortable looking considering their start in life.

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Wine Cask Hotel de Vrouwe van Stavoren

The rooms offer two single beds as well as an attached sitting room and bathroom.  These rooms have been pretty popular with tourists in the sleepy village of Stavoren.  If you get tired of the in-room television and radio, you can rent a bicycle and travel along one of the many popular bike paths to see the old growth forests and beach.  There is even a famous statue of “Lady van Stavoren” to keep an eye on the harbour as well as an eccentric local story to go along with it.

 

Wine Cask Hotel Room

 

 

The wine casks are a great reuse as hotel rooms because of their ability to seal tightly.  Visitors have stayed in the hotels four special recycled rooms from all over the world.  Prices for the rooms range from approximately $150 USD a night to about $40 USD a night depending on the length of your stay and the season you go in.  How can you afford not to?

Hotels are really getting in on the green movement with their hotels being made out of everything from airplanes, to shipping containers or even drain pipes.  Who knows what else they’ll be making hotel rooms out of next?!  These hotels are helping to show the world what can be done with “trash” and are helping to change people’s perceptions.

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38 Responses to “ Sleep it Off Inside a Wine Cask ”

  1. Global Patriot

    15. Mar, 2009

    The shape and size seem to be a bit restricted, but the novelty of sleeping in a wine cask is something that everyone should try, at least once!

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  2. Stephanie Moore

    15. Mar, 2009

    They remind me of hobbit houses!

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  3. Debra Mann

    16. Mar, 2009

    Creative and interesting!

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  4. Joni Keith

    16. Mar, 2009

    When I was a kid, we had a playhouse that was made out of a 100 year old wine barrel. I remember we were in the local newspaper for it. What a great idea for reusing resources.

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  5. Kelly W. Patterson

    16. Mar, 2009

    Definitely better than the Guinness bottle I rented in Dublin last summer.

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  6. Paula Mitchell Bentley

    17. Mar, 2009

    Global Patriot, they do seem awfully tiny inside. They have a room added onto the end that contains a sitting room and bathroom. The barrel part perfectly holds two beds and end tables.

    Stephanie, they totally look like little hobbit houses. Or maybe for the Keebler elves?

    Debra, thanks!

    Joni, I’d love to see a picture of the wine barrel playhouse. Sounds like you were way ahead of your time!

    Kelly, love to see a picture of that too!!

    Thanks for all the comments!

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  7. t0Ni

    21. Mar, 2009

    really a good place to try!

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  8. nell

    22. Mar, 2009

    This is really quite wonderful and inventive. It looks pretty cozy inside, big enough to sleep comfortably, small enough to give you incentive to explore the outdoors during the day!

    p.s. The link to the Hotel’s website has one too many “http”s in it.

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  9. kelly

    23. Mar, 2009

    They are bigger than a Japanese hotel room for the bargain seaker. They only have room for one. This is luxery.

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  10. roy

    23. Mar, 2009

    “my Precioussssssssss…….”

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  11. Karen G

    25. Mar, 2009

    What a great idea! Does anyone know of a place like this in North America?

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  12. Paula Mitchell Bentley

    25. Mar, 2009

    Thanks for all the great comments everyone! I’ll definitely be keeping my eye out for more hotels of this kind in North America Karen G. and will fill you all in on any more finds. There are many hotels that are going “greener” everyday with upgrades such as low-flow shower heads, environmentally sustainable building techniques and upcycled design ideas. I definitely recommend looking into how green a hotel is before you book your next trip. There are many, many green alternatives to your standard, traditional, energy guzzling hotels. Remember that the more financially rewarding it is for companies to go green, the more companies will start looking at green initiatives.

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  13. sleep

    27. Apr, 2009

    These look great.

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  14. luggage

    21. Oct, 2009

    That looks like a very interesting place to stay.

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  15. Роман Макаров

    26. Oct, 2009

    Сенкс за информацию, почитал с интересом

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  16. William Wallace

    27. Oct, 2009

    It would be worth staying in such a place for the novelty value and having some fun with my girl, but I think the novelty of such small rooms would wear off rather quickly…..

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