Jules' Undersea Lodge, USA
Jules’ Undersea Lodge has to be the ultimate getaway for dive enthusiasts. Based in Key Largo, Florida, it has the world’s only dive-in, completely submerged underwater hotel rooms where guests must scuba dive their way to bed. The remodelled undersea laboratory, which sits five feet (1.5m) off the floor of a protected tropical mangrove lagoon, is filled with compressed air and is surprisingly spacious and cosy. It can accommodate up to six overnight guests in its two chambers, which are separated by a wet room with a "Moon Pool", where guests arrive and depart.
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The communal living room chamber is where guests gather to eat and even watch Netflix when they're not peering out to see what's going on around them in the lagoon's extensive ecosystem. A highlight of a stay has to be the gourmet dinner (for luxury stays) or pizza that's hand delivered in a water-tight box, and eaten as seahorses, angelfish, parrotfish, barracuda and snappers peep in the portholes. Previous diving experience isn't essential to stay here, though. A sleepover is open to anyone over 10 years-old who has taken the Discover Scuba course so they can reach their room safely with a diving instructor as their guide.