Hotel CasAnus’ wired architecture attracts tourists to Belgium

Hotel CasAnus, created by the Dutch designer, Joep van Lieshout, replicates a human foot at one end and anus at the other. The hotel is located near Antwerp in Belgium and

costs around 120 Euros a night (£98) and hosts one couple per month on average.

The hotel offers no flamboyant sensational buildings here, but rather, a refreshing, unpretentious place to look at art and a subtle criticism of the art world.

The one bedroom lodgings feature a double bed, shower and, of course, a toilet.

Hotel CasaAnus is the latest to join a string of weird hotels around the world, from the Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin, which offers a host of unusually themed rooms including Gothic coffin-shaped beds and padded cell rooms, to renovated sewage pipe rooms at the open-air Das Park Hotel in Austria.

The luxury safari tents at the Livingstone Safari Lodge give guests a taste of Africa in Kent, right up to the giraffes and the zebra roaming its grounds, while the House of Clouds in Suffolk is a converted water tower cunningly disguised as a house 70ft up in the air.

Several hotels have also been made from unusual materials, including salt near the backpacker town of Uyuni, in Bolivia, where a handful of hotels have been built using blocks of salt mined from the surrounding salt flats. In 2008, the first-ever sand hotel was built on the beach in Weymouth, while in 2009 Holiday Inn unveiled a 400-square-foot temporary hotel made using 200,000 plastic key cards, built by Bryan Berg, a record-breaking “playing card stacker”.