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The Horror of Hotel Homogenization

Weird hotels are intriguing for the seasoned traveler. Much of the lodging firmament is taken up by chains; it's easy to crave variety when Holiday Inn prides itself on putting the light switch in the same place in every one of their hotel rooms. The popularity of the "boutique hotel" can be viewed as something of a response, but expensive coffee table books and Frette linens are simply haute Holiday Inn light switches.

A few hotels throughout the world remain as quirky as they come. It doesn't mean that they are good, or even all that pleasant a place to spend the night; they're just different. This week's New York Post rounds-up ten of these weirdoes. The list includes the Covington Inn, a tugboat that has been transformed to  four-room Bed and Breakfast in Connecticut, the Kayadam Cave Hotel in Cappadocia, Turkey--if you want to sleep like a Jawa from Star Wars--and the Corsewall Lighthouse Hotel in Scotland.

Sadly, the Chattanooga Choo-Choo didn't quite make the cut. It, too, is a Holiday Inn now, so check out the rest of those hotels before they have a light switch in the same place as everywhere else.

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