Posted on 03/05/2017 11:13:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
Imagine what it’s like to lie on a bed in a floating capsule and look into the stars while it drifts to a desert island overnight. That’s a new experience a major theme park in Nagasaki Prefecture plans to offer by the end of this year.
Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch-themed park in Sasebo, is developing the new service in which hotel guests sleep in spheric capsules whose top part is a bedroom. Then the capsules slowly move overnight to an island featuring attractions.
Staying in the floating capsule, a two-story structure that holds up to four people, costs ¥30,000 to ¥40,000 per night, operator Huis Ten Bosch Co. said.
Huis Ten Bosch owns a 39,000 sq-meter uninhibited island some 6 km southwest of the park facing Omura Bay. The operator is building new adventure type attractions using the entire island, it said.
The operator said it hopes the new service will help draw more tourists from both at home and abroad, following its launch in 2015 of Henn na Hotel, dubbed a “robot hotel” in which robots provide porter service, room cleaning, front desk and other services.
Aside from the recent tourist draws, Huis Ten Bosch uses actual-sized copies of old Dutch buildings to bring the experience of the Netherlands to Japan.
That could be a problem for some tourists.
Sounds like a money-maker...
In Finland, you can get a glass igloo in the forest and sleep (or stay awake) under not only the stars, but the Aurora Borealis.
Depends upon what sort of “attractions” they have on this uninhibited island. Maybe they just want to, you know, talk.
Or else not miss the island, get there too early, be woke up and told I was in for the duration. Shanghaied by the Japs....
Somebody has to build the new "adventure type attractions" that are going to "use the entire island"...
But when stuck there, I could tell the petite little Japanese girls -- "I've got a bit of Dutch in me, would you like a bit of Dutch in you?"
Hey, it could be an adventure for them. They wouldn't have to pay me much either.
Very cool. Have you been there?
It’s on my list...
Sounds great. What could possibly go wrong?
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