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Check in at the mile high club

Posted Jul 30, 2009

If you've always wanted to join the mile high club but lacked the inclination or first class seats to get you in the mood, we've found just the ticket.

Converting historic aeroplanes into luxury hotels, Holland's brand new Honecker Hotel could be just the ticket.
The1960s jet is perched on the edge of the runway at Teuge airport, just east of Amsterdam, so visitors can watch other planes take off and land while remaining on terra firme.

The inside of the planes have been transformed into (featured above) suites for two people, complete with A whirlpool, sauna, bar, kitchen, flat-screen televisions, wireless Internet - and it doesn't even leave the ground.
 

The plane is a converted Ilyushin 18 - one of the Soviet Union's most popular and widely-used airliners - and was a government aircraft for East German officials during its previous life.

Source & Photo Credit: The Honecker Hotel

 

 

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