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🤯 HAPPY SUNDAY & HOLY CRAP... what a week in hotel land:
A tech billionaire spent 40 YEARS obsessing over the perfect campground hotel resort hotel... a Texas chef is shipping Italy to Fort Worth in luxury containers... and The Plaza NYC is charging $1,400 for sandy mattresses?!
Plus: Someone left a $6M watch in their hotel room (WHO DOES THAT?), and there's a pickup truck 42 feet in the air you can sleep in…
🇮🇹 Suite Spotlight - Texas Style
🏔️ Suite Stay Destination
🛻 Stays Gone Wild - Pickup Truck Bed
🫢 Tattle TELL - The Plaza
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✨ | Suite Spotlight
Hotel Shipping Container
Airbnb
🇮🇹 🤠 | This Texas hotel is literally shipping Italy to you
Want to experience la dolce vita with a Texan twist? Meet Hotel Otto – the most mind-blowing thing to hit Fort Worth since BBQ. They've turned literal shipping containers into luxury crash pads that'll blow your mind! 🤯
Why "Otto"? It's Italian for "eight" and hot damn, they've got exactly eight insane bungalows. Each one's a 160-square-foot slice of Italian heaven with a Texas swagger.
Perfect for a mini escape, each bungalow boasts a private rooftop for those sunset spritz moments that are pure Instagram gold.
Living la dolce vita, y’all!
🛏️ Each bungalow brings the luxury: soft queen beds, Hermès toiletries, and a fully stocked mini bar. | 🌟 Live the good life, Texas-style. Enjoy a free cocktail, cool off in the container pool, (yes, that's a thing) or hop on an electric bike to explore Trinity Trails.
Fun fact: 👨🍳 Chef Tim Love created Fort Worth's first micro-resort. His restaurant Gemelle sits next door, bringing Amalfi Coast flavors to Texas.
Wanna see what “Italy meets Texas” looks like? 📸 @hotelotto
🏕️ | Suite Stays
Premier Micro-Resort Campground
Desolation Hotel
🏔️ 🏡 | HOLY CRAP: This Ain't Your Regular Tahoe Hotel-Resort
A tech billionaire just spent 40 YEARS dreaming up the perfect mountain escape, and the result is BONKERS. This micro-resort is making other Tahoe hotels look like your grandma's timeshare.
Belkin's founder (yeah, that Belkin) went ALL IN: 31 EV chargers, heated bathroom floors, and they plant a freaking tree for every stay. It's what happens when Silicon Valley decides to fix luxury hotels…Hello Desolation Hotel.
Imagine if Tesla and REI had a baby, then hired a Michelin chef to babysit...
😎 😎 THE ROOMS = ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS | 🛏️ Alpine Studios with private soaking tubs, 3-story Townhomes with PRIVATE GARAGES. Every room rocks Bertazzoni ranges (Google it - they're INSANE) and outdoor tubs because... this is how the 1% lives. | Plus: Your dog gets the VIP treatment too.
😌 THE AMENITIES = NEXT LEVEL CRAZY | 🏊♂️ Heated pool + cedar sauna, a restaurant crushing 28-oz bison tomahawks (NOT A TYPO), and Pelotons for the "too busy to hike" crew.
🌟 | Stay Here
Personal Pick of the Week
Airbnb
📍 Location: Black Mountain, North Carolina
🧳 | Luxe Artisan Resort (Airbnb)
6 Bedrooms | 4 Bathrooms | 16+ Guest
⭐️ Guest Grade: 4.94 Stars | 17+ Reviews
🗣️💬 | Guest Vibe Check:
Your cheat sheet – the the 'good to know before you go’
🔥 What’s Hot:
2 completely stocked kitchens with all the appliances and dinnerware.
Movie theater room for epic film nights.
Games galore: Both indoor AND outdoor entertainment (life-size chess board?
Two hot tubs & sauna = ultimate relaxation game! (Plus a massage chair for extra zen)
❌ What’s Not:
Upstairs oven issues (mentioned by a couple guests as being broken)
That's literally it! (Every review is basically glowing with 5-star love)
🌟 Even an Airbnb Superhost gave this place a perfect score, calling it "visually stunning" and a "5-star experience.
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😵💫 Seriously wild: Hotels reveal their craziest lost & found items.
⌚️ A $6 million watch
🐣 Live chick
🦎 Pet lizard (who forgets a lizard?)
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👀 | Stays Gone Wild
The Craziest Stays Around the INN-ternet
Airbnb
This week’s “STAYS gone wild”…
Welcome to the Magic Bullet: a pickup truck bed living its best life 42 steps up in the air at Asheville's Baying Hound Campground.
Think European hostel meets Appalachian charm, complete with a "refreshingly brisk" solar shower and complimentary farm animal noises.
BYO everything (seriously, everything) but the quirky vibes are included. Just 10 minutes from downtown, proving Asheville really does keep it weird. 😅
⭐️ 4.8 | 122 Reviews - 😑
🫢🗣️ | Tattle TELL
The Plaza NYC Edition
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HOTEL TATTEL TELL: The Plaza's $1,400 Nightmare
Holy sh*t.
A guy paid $1,418 for one night at NYC's Plaza Hotel and found SAND in his mattress.
This is wild:
That famous lobby? Still gorgeous
The actual rooms? Ehhhhh, disaster
They upgraded him to a $2k suite (spoiler: still trash)
The craziest part? The Plaza makes $50M+ a year... and can't even provide hot bathwater.
Watch him expose it all → link
^^ This is the kind of stuff I can't make up.
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