World's Most Secret Hotels

In Cambodia we venture to the banks of the Timor Rung River to the Shinta Mani Wild Hotel.   A series of 15 tents deep in the wilderness and accessible only after a 3 hour drive from Phnom Penh, access is via a 400 metre zip wire that lands guests in this unique hotel. 

In Italy we visit an ancient clifftop settlement that is thought to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on earth, and it’s here that we discover our secret hotel - hewn into the limestone rocks - The Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita Hotel. 

In Wales we visit two very unique and camouflaged sites steeped in history:

In Caerwenfor’  - we uncover the The Clifftop Holiday Lodge, a stone cottage that is sunk into cliffs formed more than 500 million years ago. 

In Swedish Lapland we venture to Harads a remote village surrounded by forests and  nature to spot The Tree Hotel. 

In England we visit South Devon, known as ‘The English Riviera’ and discover, on a secluded island 250 metres off shore – The Burgh Island Hotel. 

In Jordan we find out what it’s like to stay deep in the desert sleeping underneath the stars at the Bubble Luxotel Wadi Rum resort – a remote and unusual series of transparent “bubble” tents which look more like a cluster of space craft on Mars than luxury desert accommodation.

In Norfolk, England, we visit an unusual two hundred year old building, known as Cley Windmill. It’s a structure often overlooked and not known by many as a ten roomed luxury hotel in a remote and secluded part of the English countryside.

In Sweden, we visit the Jumbo Stay Hotel – the first 747 hotel in the world.

In South America we explore a hotel so remote, that getting supplies and groceries only occurs three times a month.

In New York we visit a hotel hidden airside amongst the hustle and bustle of the John F Kennedy airport – the TWA Hotel.

In Finnish Lapland we venture to the deep snow -capped forest of the Urho Kkonen National Park where those seeking solace can spend a night sleeping under the stars at the Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort.   

On Vancouver Island we visit a province known for its biological diversity and where visitors come all year round to escape the daily grind and free their minds. 

In Aberdeenshire, we visit a remote hotel in a spot where for centuries agricultural workers came to harvest barley. 

In Uruguay we venture deep within the rural countryside to an area of remote forests and lakes to a one hundred hectare resort of mirrored cabins.

In Sweden we visit the Kolarbyn Eco Lodge – a rustic retreat of 12 hobbit like huts that are replicas of those built in this forest by people making charcoal from as far back as the 1800s.   

In Norfolk we visit an unusual two hundred year old building, known as Cley Windmill.

In The Netherlands we visit the Harlingen Harbour Crane Hotel. 

In Scotland, at the northernmost tip of one of the country’s hardest to reach wildernesses, and with the only surrounding neighbours being the remnants of Stone Age huts, is mainland Britain’s most remote hotel – The Garvault. 

In Oman we venture to the Grand Canyon of the Middle East to unearth a luxury hotel hidden in the Al Hajar mountains – the Alila Jabal Akhdar resort.

In Italy more than three thousand metres above sea level perched on a glacier, sits

The Grawand Glacier Hotel, it’s a mecca for ski enthusiasts and hikers in search of an adrenaline fix.

In Scotland we uncover another very remote hidden escape in Drimnin – this is one of the westernmost points of the British mainland.

In Greece we discover a hotel on the southernmost tip of the Greek mainland in one of the most remote areas in the country, the Mani Peninsula.

Our adventure continues to the Cambrian Mountains in South Wales, seventy miles from Cardiff in Powys.

In British Columbia we delve deep into the Chilcotin Wilderness – an area so remote, only one thousand residents live in its 32 million acre landscape.

In Iceland, we uncover The Glass Cottage, an unusual and very small black building covered in reflective glass and surrounded by lava fields.

In Sweden, a local artist has fulfilled his desire to create a floating piece of art: resembling a bouy on Lake Malaren and looking little more than a fishing hut, is the world’s first one of a kind submerged hotel, The Utter Inn.  

In Skegness England, “The Tower”- an unusual, brutalistic compound, rumoured to have harboured unexploded bombs, is a must for those with an interest in military history.