The Poseidon Experience Underwater Hotel Presented by Brenda

Imagine yourselves spending a night at a beautiful hotel, overlooking the vast ocean beneath you. Now imagine you could penetrate the waves with your eyes, see the amazing underwater world, the colorful fish and algae, the otherwordly glow of the sun through the water.

You can stop pretending now You can stop pretending now. On the private islands of Fiji, at the Poseidon Resort, this dream is becoming a reality.

This is the first hotel that is completely underwater, at a depth of 12-40 feet under the waves, in a crystal clear lagoon that offers guests a breath-taking view of coral reefs and the fish that live around them. 

In essence, you get to feel like a fish kept in the most luxurious of aquariums, while the fish swim free! How about that for reversal of positions? 

Each suite is carefully being designed to be totally modular, and in case of a malfunction or maintenance, it can be raised to the surface individually.

For those worried about safety, the resort claims on its website that its buildings are based on the design of passenger submarines, which it describes as 'statistically the world's safest form of transportation'.

The hotel is going to include 25 suites guest suites and everything else a hotel offers.

Eating in incredible style. We wonder if it's all sea food?

But it doesn't end there, as guests will have access to four personal submarines that will take them around the lagoon. 

What else is here? A restaurant, bar, gym and even an underwater wedding chapel for those who'd like to say their vows in a very unique setting. 

A stylish lounge to enjoy a drink.

A library offers a great place to read while also enjoying the fish swimming by.

It has 25 suites, a restaurant, bar, gym and even a wedding chapel. It was dreamed up by L Bruce Jones, chairman of the Triton/US Submarines company, and claims to be perfect for the ‘elite vacationer’. Each of the impressive habitable pods can be detached and taken to the surface for repairs. Building work on the project began in 2001 and it was meant to open in 2008.

The hotel will be accessed through a special elevator that will take them down from the beach.  

Getting out of the water, visitors will find tennis courts, a spa and a 9 hole golf resort waiting fAll around the Poseidon Mystery Island, an unspoiled tropical marine ecosystem awaits its visitors. A specific program was designed to prevent negative impact on this environment - throughout construction and operation of the resort - and provide the most inspiring vision to our guests, for many years to come. The Poseidon Coral Reef Sanctuary Project, conceived as a non-profit program (future link to website) will invite guests, scientists and audiences worldwide to enjoy and support a unique conservation, education and research program focusing on coral reefs. Another world first, the Enhanced Reef Program will be be implemented inside the island’s lagoon, utlizing state-of-the art coral farming and propagation techniques in order to encourage the development of biodiversity. The Poseidon Coral Farm located on the island will offer visits and lectures to resort guests and represent a collection of preserved marine species accessible to scientists for their research and to children and students as part of our educational programs. More than a dozen international organizations and many more regional and local ones focus on reef preservation and restoration programs. Poseidon will showcase a methodology that can benefit many such projects around the world.

It costs more than £9,000 for a week at the complex, located 40ft under the sea by a lagoon off Fiji. Guests will get to it using a lift.

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