Undersea Lodging? Here's a few:

Sleeping underwater sounds like a dream. But modern architects have made this dream a reality, with several "underwater luxury hotels" currently in the planning stages and at least one currently accepting guests.

 Jules Undersea Lodge in Key West Florida Boasts:

      - other SCUBA divers can swim down and gawk at you ...

Enjoy underwater luxury from a 1:00 pm check-in until an 11:00 am check-out. Earn an Aquanaut certificate while enjoying unlimited diving for certified divers, a gourmet dinner prepared by our "mer-chef". Guests may spend multiple days underwater without surfacing. Aquanaut Certificate also qualifies certified divers for participation in an optional Underwater Habitat/Aquanaut dive specialty rating (See Dive Instruction for details).

-  main living area, the Common Room

Named after Jules Verne (author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), is located in Key Largo, Florida. The lodge was originally built as a research laboratory to explore the continental shelf. The world's first underwater hotel, Jules' Undersea Lodge is also the first underwater research lab to be made available to average people.

 

                                                              getting in, the Wet Room -     

Getting There: To get to Jules' Undersea Lodge, visitors must dive 21 feet below the surface of the sea and enter through the floor in the inn's wet room.

Luxury Aquanaut Package

* $395/person per night.
(Groups of 4 to 5 -- $370/person)
(Groups of 6 -- $350/person)

Others in the planning stages - but not yet open:

The £3,500-a-night hotel beneath the waves

It might look like something from a James Bond film but its creators believe this underwater hotel is the future of package holidays.

                                       - artist's depiction

The Poseidon Resort - being billed as the world's first hotel beneath the ocean - will stand next to a coral reef 60ft below the surface off a tropical island near Fiji.                                   

It will have 24 suites, two VIP complexes, a restaurant and a bar in a series of interconnecting pods. It will also have 48 beachfront villas.

Guests - already making reservations at £3,500 GBP-a-night - will be able to enter by submarine or through a tunnel linked to a beachside foyer. They will be able to view coral gardens, passing dolphins and sharks.                                                                                                  

L. Bruce Jones of American-based Poseidon Resorts, says his vision was inspired by marine biologist Jacques Cousteau. It is hoped Poseidon will be finished by Christmas 2007.

Designer Paul Moorhouse said: "The island will provide the most amazing setting in a totally natural underwater environment.

"We feel very strongly about the ecological and environmental impact of the complex, which is why it will be placed on a sandy bottom, not on the reef itself, and we will make the entire resort asclean as possible."    

                                                                   - suites

Rival designer Joachim Hauser of Hydropolis in Dubai, who took his lead from the author Jules Verne, is also fighting to be first to open an underwater hotel.

    - The upper storeys of the land station house a variety of facilities, including a cosmetic surgical clinic, a marine biological research laboratory and conference facilities.

It will be built on a man-made lagoon off Dubai and will include a concert hall and a "beach" with artificial clouds for guests staying in its 200 rooms and 30 suites.

  - Hydropolis is about to take shape 20m below the surface of the Arabian Gulf, just off the Jumeirah Beach. The land belongs to His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and was his last free beach property on this stretch of coast.

Security there is set to include an anti-missile radar system. Both hotels will be made with steel, while sections of strengthened acrylic plastic will be used for the windows.

  - the Landstation

They will be see-through by day and can be electronically clouded over at night for privacy.

China To Get Underwater Hotel

Crescent Hydropolis Resorts  (same people as Dubai) has received sea rights from China to build the world’s first underwater hotel and resort - the Hydropolis Qingdao . TheHydroTower Landstation will be on 33,000 sq meters of land that was formerly the Ocean Entertainment Park in Qingdao while the Hydropalace underwater hotel  will be southwest of the island of Chidao and southeast of Xiao Maidao. The goal is to have the HydroTower Landstation completed in 2008 prior to the start of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games. Crescent Hydropolis is the same company that is working on the underwter hotel in Dubai and they also are planning projects in London, Monaco, Munich, New York and the Isle of Man.