It was once an exclusive five-star resort floating directly over Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. For years, it sat dilapidated in a North Korean port, a 20-minute drive from the Demilitarized Zone, ...

The history of travel is rich with failed dreams. But few have a back story as vibrant as the world’s first “floating hotel” – known at different points during its 30-year existence as the Four ...

Australia approved the world’s first floating hotel in the late 1980s, a seven-story structure anchored over the Great Barrier Reef and marketed as a five-star destination. The hotel, built in ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - What could be more relaxing than hearing the waves rolling onto the beach from your hotel bedroom than perhaps hearing the waves rolling underneath you or around you? Floating ...

I spent one night on the Rum Runner, a 65-foot sailboat that ports in Cairns, Australia. The boat calls itself a floating hostel that sleeps 18 people on trips to the Great Barrier Reef. I thought the ...