This Magical Floating Hotel Can Travel Just About Anywhere

Whether under or over the water , we’ve observed some pretty epic aquatic hotels in our day. But a hotel that can both fly and float?! It’s a whole new frontier.

Behold Driftscape , a futuristic hotel design in which guests sleep in personal pods that can fly  with the help of drone technology. Guests can take their flying pod pretty much anywhere on one of its pre-planned excursion paths, whether to the remote corners of a desert or the verdant rice paddies of Southeast Asia. 

We’re most thrilled about the floating capability, which turns your pod into its own private island:

After floating on their own, the Driftscape pods would be able to return to a larger hub  with a lounge, restaurant and courtyard, Dezeen reports.  

The hotel is just a design concept, and there aren’t plans to build it in real life just yet . But things could change soon: The design is a finalist for this year’s Radical Innovation Award , an annual prize that rewards big ideas in the hotel industry.

If selected, the hotel’s designers at HOK architectural firm  will receive a cash prize to help make their design a reality. They’ve certainly got our vote!