TravelJAN 29, 2014

24 Amazing Hotels You Would Rather Be Sitting In Right Now

We know that a lot of you like to read our articles while you're at work (naughty, naughty pandas), so we've created a virtual vacation trip with amazing hotels around the world that you'd rather be sitting in right now.

These locations will take you from the icy forests of Finland to the jungles of Bali and from the streets of Paris to the turquoise Mediterranean waters of Greece. As diverse as they are, there's one thing tying them together – each location is perfectly suited for you to take a breather and relax.

In their fight to attract adventurous (and often wealthy) visitors, hotels have often been at the forefront of creative structure and interior design, struggling to create ever more intriguing and attractive rooms in ever more exotic locales. That's why you get hotels perched atop cliff faces, hotels built inside of sea caves, hotels with waterfalls, and other amazing feats of engineering. Some, like the Conrad Maldives shown here or the Manta resort in Zanzibar, even let their guests sleep underwater.

These places look good (though probably a bit pricey), but I wonder about some of the sleeping arrangements. I'm not sure if I'd like to sleep together with my significant other in a bed that anyone could see! Although I guess that'll only be worth worrying about once I can afford a trip to one of these places.

If you could pick one of these places as your next vacation destination, which would it be?