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From BudgetTravel.com:





Hobbit habitats for humanity

If you queued up for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, you'd probably feel right at home in the Hobbit Motel, in Otorohanga, New Zealand. The motel's two hillside burrows are faithful replicas of the fictional hobbit dwellings— right down to the circular windows and doorways, red-and-beige walls, and camouflaged exteriors. The real-life rooms are scaled to human proportions, though, so actual hobbits might find them disagreeable.

The Hobbit Motel is only one part of Woodlyn Park, a bizarre collection of lodgings that includes a 1950s railway car, a dry-docked patrol boat, and a grounded airplane from the Vietnam War. As if that weren't eccentric enough, the complex caters to visitors of the nearby Waitomo Caves, where the star attraction is a colony of glowworms. 011-64/7-878-6666, woodlynpark.co.nz.






An interesting place to stay. But it's a Man version of a hobbit hole, wouldn't you say? It lacks a certain warmth, and it's not really under a hill. But I give them an A for Effort.

Comments

[aliensouldream.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the smile! :-)

[belleferret.livejournal.com]

Well the doors aren't really round, and the interior does lack a bit in the hobbity factor, but I'd rather stay there than in the grounded Vietnam-era plane!
:-O

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely! Me and my husband have said that if we ever got a hold of some big-time dough, we'd build one for ourselves. There are some really nice areas in town, and in the hilltowns that would do us right for that.
A friend of my husband's, in Texas, had almost gotten a project in place to build a big neighborhood of them, to rent out for vacationers. Alas, it never went through, but that was because she'd gotten pregnant. Good enough reason. :)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

That is certainly a brilliant idea. I wonder whether they serve mushroom and whether they have first and second breakfasts :DD

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

how cool! Someday I want my own hobbit hole!

[aredhelebenesse.livejournal.com]

Aw, lovely! It doesn't completely look like a Smial, but it's anyway a modern version of the Prancing Pony and for that it's a really nice idea.

[starlit-woods.livejournal.com]

That'd be cool! Plus my brother wants to live in every strange abode he can think of, from a plane to a train to...God knows! So he would never leave that place! ;D