A 7 story hotel will open in Istanbul, Turkey within the next 2 years. Wow, this might start a whole thread of new underwater hotels and maybe even fork out to new underwater cities.

Visitors to Istanbul will soon have a chance to view the most spectacular ocean views on the planet. A seven floor, seven-star hotel is being built underwater on what was formerly a tobacco factory. There will be exhibition halls, and restaurants, and all rooms will be sea facing.

This isn’t the first such underwater hotel complex in the world. That honor goes to the $500 million Poseidon Hotel which is currently being built off Fiji. The Istanbul hotel differs in that it is being built under the city center, which should make for an interesting experience.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 8:57 pm and is filed under Hotels.