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Berlin’s highly cool, highly affordable Hüttenpalast

The Titanic To Set Sail. Again.The Titanic To Set Sail. Again.

The Titanic To Set Sail. Again.

A billionaire’s plans for Titanic II

The Million Beer Bottle TempleThe Million Beer Bottle Temple

The Million Beer Bottle Temple

Don’t worship and drive at this Thailand temple

The Portable TreehouseThe Portable Treehouse

The Portable Treehouse

The Tentsile tent-hammock hybrid

Cappadocia’s Cave HotelsCappadocia’s Cave Hotels

Cappadocia’s Cave Hotels

Where Batman would sleep in Turkey

The Best View from a <br />Hotel Room in French PolynesiaThe Best View from a <br />Hotel Room in French Polynesia

The Best View from a
Hotel Room in French Polynesia

The InterContinental Bora Bora Resort and Thalasso Spa is eco-friendly too

The Jamaica Caves Where Celebrities Find BlissThe Jamaica Caves Where Celebrities Find Bliss

The Jamaica Caves Where Celebrities Find Bliss

Negril’s private, cliff top Caves Resort


The Best Socks for Travel
(and for the time between trips)

Travelers spend big money on upgraded airline tickets and medium money on upgraded luggage. Yet, for only a few extra dollars (or pounds or euros or yen or somoni) an upgraded experience can be had on an arguably more significant piece of travel gear: socks.

Travel (save for the armchair variety) tends to involve a lot of standing and walking and being outside. And a surprising percentage of one’s physical comfort starts with one’s feet.

For the previous few months Spot Cool Stuff has been trying out different socks; some were provided to us and others we purchased ourselves. The central take-away from this sock testing frenzy: Don’t purchase generic socks, or at least not exclusively. There’s an impressive variety of socks on the market, produced by several dozen small- and medium-sized manufacturers. Spending a bit more on their socks is worth it, especially for travel.

As for specific sock suggestions, here’s a review of some of our favorites:

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Indoor Caravan Camping

When visiting Berlin will you stay in an artsy boutique hotel? In a low cost hostel? In a trailer park?

The wonderfully cool thing about The Hüttenpalast is that the accommodations are all three of those—at once!

At Spot Cool Stuff we’ve reviewed more than our share of unusual hotels. But rarely have we found one that offers such an unconventional experience with such a relatively high level of comfort at such a relatively low price.

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The Titanic To Set Sail. Again.

Titanic, the movie, was an enormous success. Titanic, the ship, not so much.

Though it set sail on its half voyage more than a century ago, the RMS Titanic is still infamous for having provided its passengers with a rather suboptimal travel experience. So it seems peculiar that anyone would want to recreate it. Yet that’s exactly what one billionaire plans to do.

Clive Palmer, a mining magnate and one of Australia’s richest men, has announced his intention to build the Titanic II.

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The Million Beer Bottle Temple

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And if you are a Buddhist monk and life gives you empty beer bottles . . . build a temple out of them.

That was the philosophy of a group of Thai monks in the early 1980s who looked at the innumerable glass beer bottles littering their eastern Thailand hometown of Khun Han and saw more than trash. They saw potential.

At first, the monks picked up a few of the bottles to create artistic decorations from. Then they gathered more discarded vessels to build a modest monk living quarters. Eventually, they decided to construct an entire temple out of found beer bottles.

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