Costa Rican Boeing 747 Hotel Looks a Little "Lost"

The hotel and travel industry are always coming up with really creative ways to attract consumers to new locations. Sometimes these involve bizarre hotels made of ice or giant wine casks. Or sometimes, as pictured above, they involve a Boeing 747 in Costa Rica. Which is the Costa Verde Resort, via Inhabitat.

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom suite also includes a kitchenette, flat-screen tvs, a dining room, and a terrace with an ocean view. We can’t really agree with their choice of furnishings, which are made from teak and shipped across the Pacific from Indonesia, but at least they were hand carved. The tip-to-tail paneling on the inside is also teak, but it was harvested locally in Costa Rica.

Now, I'm not one for "quirky travel" in the sense of staying somewhere just to say that I stayed there. And I actually don't like heights -- but this is just an appealing hotel, folks. It's fashionable, trendy, of the highest quality and it's a plane that sits in a giant tree. Really, all it's missing is snakes. And Samuel L. Jackson.