A Train Hotel in Thailand; Overwater Suites in Switzerland
→ And a lake hotel built on stilts in Switzerland! Khao Yai Resort is the likely last stop for 19 heritage rail cars that were saved from scrap heaps and turned into truly first-class accommodations. Hotel Palafitte’s overwater pavilions date back to prehistoric times.
InterContinental Khao Yai Resort is the likely last stop for 19 heritage rail cars that were saved from scrap heaps around Thailand and turned into truly first-class accommodations.
Five thousand years ago farmers built stilted houses above the waters of — not a Maldivian atoll — but Switzerland’s Lake Neuchâtel. Far more recently, under the eye of the Alps, Hotel Palafitte has done the same.
