Plot Synopsis

EXTREME HOTELS travels around the world, exploring the most extraordinary and unusual places to spend the night -- everything from ice hotels to prison cells. Each one-hour episode of this series takes viewers on tours of five of the most amazing places to stay, including: Solio Lodge, a 3-hour drive from Nairobi, Kenya, located in a rhino-breeding African reserve that spreads across 45,000 acres; Crane Hotel, a one-room hotel built inside a 150-foot crane, which is located in Harlingen, Netherlands, about an hour drive from the famed red light district in Amsterdam; Groove Cruise, a once-a-year party on a Norwegian cruise liner that sets sail from South Florida for a three-day rave on the waves every January; Atlantis, a mega-resort in the Bahamas, which is known for having the largest open-air marine habitat in the world; Mars Desert Research Station, a simulated martian habitat in southern Utah, which has 1000-square foot pods that each contain 6 tiny bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining area, a communications center and a research lab; Palms Hotel Fantasy Tower, located in the heart of Sin City, which is known in some circles as Disneyland for adults, because the high-end suites come with premium comforts and extras; Hotel Costa Verde, a hotel that's composed of 70 jungle-side rooms with park and ocean views, which is best known for creatively repurposing three airplanes; Elephant Safari Park and Lodge, located on 9 forested acres on Bali, which is home to 29 endangered Sumatran elephants and 25 safari-style rooms; Jules Undersea Lodge, the world's only underwater hotel, which is 21-feet beneath the ocean's surface in Key Largo, FL; Hotel Kakslauttanen, more specifically Igloo Village, which are abodes made from thermal glass to simulate clear igloos while being outfitted with modern amenities inside; Giraffe Manor, known as one of Nairobi's most iconic historical buildings, at which the world's tallest animal is almost always invited inside for a snack; The Kempinski, a 5-star hotel located in Dubai, which houses a 240,000-square-foot indoor snow park known as Ski Dubai, generating 50,000 pounds of artificial snow daily; and many more outrageous hotels and resorts on the planet.