The Deep Sleep Hotel is located at a depth of 419 meters in the abandoned Kumortin Shale Mine and claims to be the deepest accommodation facility in the world. To get to the rooms, guests need to go through a difficult path: 45 minutes along a steep and difficult route in the mountains and down into the mine.
According to the Daily Mail, the owners of Deep Sleep warn that the temperature of the mine is 10 degrees. But the rooms are insulated with thick walls, so guests should feel comfortable. It offers four rooms with two single beds and a “romantic” room – an underground grotto. All have basic amenities, a toilet, water and electricity, and Wi-Fi. There is even running water from a spring in the mine.
The hotel is open only one day a week – on Saturdays. Potential guests on Saturday evening near the Welsh town of Blaine Festiniog are met by guides. You need to walk about 45 minutes through the mountains on a “steep route, but with beautiful views,” the source describes the trip.
Then stop at a cottage to “prepare for the descent into the underworld with a helmet, flashlight, harness and rubber boots.” Having overcome a difficult route through a mine that worked from about 1810 to 1939, guests will pass along ancient stairs and dilapidated bridges.
The descent to the hotel will take about an hour – along the way the guide will provide “a lot of historical information” about the lives of the men and boys who worked in the mine.
“You can then head to your bed for a very deep sleep,” the hotel’s website notes.
The guide and technical staff stay overnight at the hotel, and breakfast – snacks and a hot drink – is brought at 8 am.
Then it’s time to rise to the surface to see the light of day again.
The official website of the hotel states that a standard double room costs 350 pounds, and a night for two in a secluded grotto will cost 550 pounds.