Underwater & Underground Stays
Cave & Underground Hotels
Rooms cut into rock — cave houses, mine levels, hillside cellars and a few places you reach by going down rather than in. A stay shows a checked date only once a person has confirmed the rooms still take overnight guests.
Stone makes a very particular room. It is quiet in a way built walls never manage, it holds one temperature through the year, and the shape of the room is whatever the rock allowed rather than whatever an architect drew.
The catches are light, damp and phone signal. Many of these rooms have one small window or none, the air is cooler and wetter than you expect, and connectivity underground ranges from poor to absent. If waking up in the dark bothers you, this is not your category.
Museum Hotel CappadociaTurkeyAntique-filled caves, Relais & ChâteauxSee the stay
Argos in CappadociaTurkeyCave suites over Pigeon ValleySee the stay
Beckham Creek Cave LodgeUSALuxury home built into an Ozarks caveSee the stay
Desert Cave Hotel, Coober PedyAustraliaUnderground rooms in an opal-mining townSee the stay
Aquatio Cave Luxury Hotel & SPASassi di Matera, MateraSuites and a spa hewn from the tufa stone of an ancient cave quarter.See the stay
B&B CasastellaMateraA former dimora contadina has been carefully restored and now houses this charming B&B.See the stay
Sassisuite B&BMateraBuilt into ancient rock formations.See the stay
I tre PortaliMatera, ItalySee the stay
A stay shows a checked date only once a person has confirmed it is open and taking bookings. Verification is never for sale.