The Cellar - The 'What the fuck!' thread

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Visitors to Istanbul will soon have a chance to view the most spectacular ocean views on the planet. A seven floor, seven-star hotel is being built underwater on what was formerly a tobacco factory. There will be exhibition halls, and restaurants, and all rooms will be sea facing.

This isn’t the first such underwater hotel complex in the world. That honor goes to the $500 million Poseidon Hotel which is currently being built off Fiji. The Istanbul hotel differs in that it is being built under the city center, which should make for an interesting experience.

The hotel’s inauguration is set to coincide with the city’s taking over from Linz, Austria as the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2010.

TheMercenary

02-21-2008 11:29 PM

That is very fucking cool. I wonder if they provide self inflating life vests that you have to wear to bed? I wonder if they give you a safety brief like we use to give on a aircraft before flight?

xoxoxoBruce

02-22-2008 12:04 AM

If they can keep the people, above the water, from throwing trash.

glatt

02-22-2008 07:41 AM

I bet that's a computer generated image rendered by the architecture firm.

If the hotel is slated to open in two years, there is no way the beds have linens on them already. Also, I'm not so sure Istanbul is known for its pristine coral reefs, especially on a former factory site.

Furthur study shows that this is a regular hotel with a basement below the water level, not a place you scuba into. And the visibility in the turbid harbor water is only ten feet!

Elspode

02-22-2008 08:04 AM

Never mind all of that. Why in hell was there an underwater tobacco factory on the site before?!

glatt

02-22-2008 08:23 AM

I guess that's the WTF part.

TheMercenary

02-22-2008 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 434114)

Good points glatt. The picture sure looks nice anyway.

glatt

02-22-2008 09:05 AM

Is does look very nice. When I was trying to find out more about this place, I discovered that the same company is building an underwater hotel in Fiji, and it looks like it will be similar to the picture above. So there will possibly be a place as nice as this computer generated image.