Unconventional holidays: what unusual services offer tourists

Unconventional holidays: what unusual services offer tourists This year in the airlines of some countries there was an interesting, but strange service - a flight to nowhere. The liner takes off and returns to the airport after a short flight. Such an idea arose in the context of a pandemic because of closed borders to somehow compensate for simple aircraft. To draw attention to such an adventure, passengers are offered various bonuses, inaccessible during standard flights: beautiful views from the porthole or food from the best expensive restaurants.

Hotels made in the form of a prison are very popular among tourists. A similar facility is located in the German city of Kaiserslautern. The former prison, converted into a hotel, offers both classic rooms and real cells of prisoners. The latter are equipped with toilets, bunks, sinks as in real sharpness. At the end of each corridor there are common showers. Despite the terrible conditions, there are many who want to spend the night in a prison that is considered more unusual than Alcatraz.

Attracts tourists and a kind of service in some cafes, where waiters can "send" visitors, rude to them, poke fun and even swear mate. Similar institution is in St. Petersburg, it calls itself the worst bar in the country. In the U.S. there is a whole chain of restaurants, which has gained wide fame thanks to rude employees and a rather strange interior.

In Barcelona, guests of the city are offered unusual tours, guides in which will be homeless. They will demonstrate the life of the so-called "homeless" from the inside, tell where to wash, spend the night, find the means to survive. The cost of an individual tour starts from 135 euros, for a group tour ask from 15 euros.

In Bolivia, seekers of unusual impressions are invited to prison, where the role of guides are real prisoners. They often live with their families and even buy cameras, tourists - their main source of income. Under local law, this type of entrepreneurship is prohibited. But according to various estimates, prisoners manage to conduct up to 50 excursions a day.

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