{"id":3454,"date":"2006-12-08T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/08\/3454"},"modified":"2006-12-08T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:08:44","slug":"the-worlds-first-extreme-hotel-opens-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/12\/the-worlds-first-extreme-hotel-opens-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s first extreme hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extreme-hotels.com\/\" rel=\"external\">Extreme Hotel Cape Town<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/cliff-hanger.jpg\" alt=\"cliff hanger, cape town\" class=\"pic_100px\"\/><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetownmagazine.com\/articles\/Accommodation~c2\/First-Extreme-Hotel-Opens-in-Cape-Town~650\" rel=\"external\">Cape Town magazine: <\/a><\/em> &#8220;The 130-room hotel in Cape Town&#8217;s city centre boasts stunning views of Table Mountain and features a five-storey climbing wall on the exterior of the hotel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hotel&#8217;s swimming pool has been designed to look like an aquarium: The swimming pool is adjacent to the 30mm thick glass windows of the hotel&#8217;s restaurant, giving diners an underwater view of swimmers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/shark-elevator.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/>The men&#8217;s urinals appear to be suspended on scaffolding at the edge of the building while the inside of the hotel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extreme-hotels.com\/extreme\/public_spaces.jsp\" rel=\"external\">elevator<\/a> simulates being inside a shark cage (thanks to life-size floor-to-ceiling photography).<\/p>\n<p>Rooms will cost a standard R615 (\u00c2\u00a345) a night and include free broadband internet access.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme Hotel Cape Town Cape Town magazine: &#8220;The 130-room hotel in Cape Town&#8217;s city centre boasts stunning views of Table Mountain and features a five-storey climbing wall on the exterior of the hotel. The hotel&#8217;s swimming pool has been designed to look like an aquarium: The swimming pool is adjacent to the 30mm thick glass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}