{"id":23439,"date":"2024-02-07T20:31:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodhomesmagazine.com\/?p=23439"},"modified":"2024-02-07T20:31:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:31:53","slug":"airbnbs-omg-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodhomesmagazine.com\/inspiration\/airbnbs-omg-category\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG! Check out Airbnb’s OMG! properties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Next time you\u2019re fantasy-holiday-house scrolling on Airbnb, before you stick the name of your favourite destination in the search box, look at the little icons across the top of the screen. There\u2019s a tiny window representing stays with \u2018Amazing Views\u2019, a countryside icon, representing, you guessed it, the best \u2018Countryside\u2019 properties. And so on: curated collections of great Mansions, Cabins, Yurts, Beachfront properties and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the icons is a little UFO that takes you to their selection of \u2018OMG!\u2019 properties. The UFO is an appropriate symbol for what is the collection of kooky and unusual places because, it turns out, you can, in fact, stay in several UFOs. Well, not actually bunk up with real aliens in unidentified flying objects, but, you know what we mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Wales, there\u2019s a UFO-shaped camping pod at Apple Camping<\/a>, in Pembrokeshire, where they also have a submarine, private jet, yacht, igloo among other \u2013 I won\u2019t say \u2018weird and wonderful\u2019, I\u2019ll just stick to \u2018wonderful\u2019 \u2013 properties you can stay in. The UFO is complete with: “Fully electric remote-control retracting stairs and door, an escape hatch, and a smoke machine which we will operate at your request for the full lunar landing experience!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a rival UFO (above) in Wales at Melin Mabes<\/a> glamping site, also in Pembrokeshire. There you can sleep in the UFO pod, or a vardo<\/a> (Romani wagon) or treehouse. Sweden\u2019s super cool Treehotel<\/a> has a UFO treehouse too (below), as well as other Treehouses that resemble everything from a bird’s nest to a mirrored cube.<\/p>

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Apple Camping\u2019s UFO is inspired by the famous Futuro House<\/a>, an iconic piece of 1960s design that was envisaged by its Finnish designer, Matti Suuronen, as a portable ski chalet. However, to most people it screams \u2018UFO\u2019 rather than \u2018Apr\u00e8s ski\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 100 of the fibreglass pods were made and just 67 remain. There\u2019s just one in the UK<\/a>, where it has been available to rent for stays at Marston Park<\/a>, in Frome, Somerset, having been painstakingly restored by artist Craig Barnes<\/a>. Craig says of his passion project: “It should be a place to look back at the past and wonder, but also a place for dreaming and scheming about the future.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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