Discover The Top Fantasy Hotels In America For Your Dream Getaways!

Looking for a fantasy getaway? Margaret and Corey Bienert join me to talk about “Hotel Kitsch - A Pretty Cool Tour of American’s Fantasy Getaways.” on this edition of "Some Books Considered." From weird to wonderful, this book highlights unusual-themed hotels you can visit.
Margaret and Corey Bienert are the couple behind “A Pretty Cool Hotel Tour,” a viral travel series exploring themed rooms and adults-only hotels across the United States and abroad. They talk about themed hotels for families or for adults only. The popularity of the heart-shaped bathtub, the champagne glass tub, and many more attractions found in fantasy hotels.
Here is a link to purchase a copy of "Hotel Kitsch" - www.amazon.com/Hotel-Kitsch-A...
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Book Description - (From Amazon Listing)
A visual celebration of the best fantasy suites and honeymoon hotels across America and beyond, from the creators of A Pretty Cool Hotel Tour • Named a Wall Street Journal Best Gift for Travelers
In 1963, the savvy owners of the Cove Haven Resort in the Poconos unveiled their heart-shaped tub. Like Elvis Presley and Playboy magazine, it launched a postwar phenomenon that defined a new era of pop pleasure: the honeymoon hotel. Destinations across the country were soon racing to catch up, installing not just heart-shaped tubs but all types of over-the-top design flourishes, from pink shag carpeting to immersive worlds worthy of a Broadway stage set, in order to create a sense of romance, fantasy, even adventure.
​From the photographers and inveterate travelers behind the social media sensation A Pretty Cool Hotel Tour, Hotel Kitsch celebrates dozens of creative, nostalgic, one-of-a-kind hotels that span the heart of the Poconos and across the United States to Mexico, Spain, and the UK. Discover, in the middle of Iowa, a jungle room with fake trees and foliage surrounding the bed as if it had taken its cue from Where the Wild Things Are. Or Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo where the rooms are reached by scuba diving. An Arctic Cave room at a hotel in Kentucky with its carved blue walls and not a window to be found. And on the California coast, the iconic Madonna Inn featuring 110 rooms, each themed and no two alike.
Along the way, authors Margaret and Corey Bienert uncover too many wild details to mention, including unconventional beds (a Cadillac, a clamshell, a sandwich), mirrors on mirrors on mirrors, in-room swimming pools, full suits of armor, and fiber-optic star ceilings.
It’s time to check into Hotel Kitsch.
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