{"id":95947,"date":"2023-07-21T16:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/?p=95947"},"modified":"2023-10-13T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:36:09","slug":"one-of-a-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2023\/07\/one-of-a-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"One of a Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kruger Shalati \u2014 Skukuza, South Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019ve seen hotels in all sorts of wild places \u2014 forts, caves, ghost towns, wine tanks. But there\u2019s nothing else quite like a hotel in a train on a bridge.<\/h4>\n

Treehouse hotels<\/a>.
\nWatchtower hotels<\/a>.
\nHotels in old castles<\/a>.
\nHotels in old caves<\/a>. <\/p>\n

We’ve done lists of hotels in a lot of unique places. But a list of hotels in trains on bridges might be the most unique of all. First, there’s the train. Then, you have the bridge. Third \u2014 and I cannot stress this enough \u2014 the train is on<\/em> the bridge. It’s a combination we don’t see too often, probably due to a lack of quality abandoned train bridges. But what do we know. <\/p>\n

If you’re somehow having a hard time imagining a hotel in a train on a bridge, it’s a lot like that scene in Stand By Me<\/em> except if the train had stopped and welcomed Wil Wheaton aboard for a Swedish massage and some tea sandwiches. And then instead of finding a dead body, Corey Feldman finds that the temperature of the pool is perfect.<\/p>\n

Hotels in trains on bridges are hospitality with a whole new level of fantasy. And the train-bridge-hotels below are truly one of a kind.
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Kruger Shalati<\/a><\/h2>\n
Skukuza, South Africa<\/h5>\n

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They mean it quite literally: Kruger Shalati – the Train on the Bridge is very much a train on a bridge, now immobilized and transformed into a truly one-of-a-kind luxury boutique hotel. The setting is South Africa\u2019s Kruger National Park, and the train is, it must be said, a welcome departure from the tented-camp concept and aesthetic. It\u2019s as luxurious as any of them, of course, but with the added inducement of a truly unique vantage point, on a bridge straddling the Sabie River, whose waters are full of crocodiles, hippos, elephants, and other wildlife.<\/p>\n

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