Industrial Dockside Crane Hotel, Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands, Wadden Sea

If you’ve ever wondered what it must be like to spend the night in an industrial dockside crane, there’s a unique hotel in Harlingen, Netherlands. Located in the seaside town of Harlingen, just an hour’s drive from Amsterdam, the Crane Hotel offers a luxurious getaway for two. Harlingen is a municipality and a city in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland at the Wadden Sea and it is an old town with a long history of fishing and shipping.
The one room Crane Hotel may not be very spacious, but it allows tourists to operate the giant crane and spin 360 degrees for incredible views of their surroundings. The genuine dockside crane used to move containers around during the 1960s was converted into a unique hotel between 2001 and 2003. Although it retains its industrial look on the outside, the interior has been radically altered to provide the same degree of comfort that other high-class hotels do.