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16 wrz 2011 · Discover Karosta Prison Hotel in Liepāja, Latvia: Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.
Karosta Prison is the only military prison in Europe open to tourists. It is recognized as the most unusual and surprising hotel in the world. The building was originally intended as a military hospital but was never used for this purpose.
THE NAVAL PORT PRISON. Europe’s only military prison open to tourists, no inmate of which was ever able to escape. The building of the Karosta Prison was constructed around 1900, and it served as a prison for military personnel.
PHOTOS. The prison started functioning over 100 years ago. This is the only military prison in Europe open to tourists. The prison nobody has ever escaped from. In different surveys Karosta prison is named as the most surprising and most unusual hotel in the world.
If you are especially unlucky you might witness the ghost of a long-dead prisoner – skeleton thin, just staring at you. For a truly unique experience, the very brave can spend a night in the cells to experience some of what prisoners might have gone through.
Who can you surprise by staying overnight at a hotel? Here you have a chance to spend the night in a prison which is considered to be even more impressive than the Alcatraz in the USA, to sleep on a prison bunk or an iron bed, and to have a prison meal.
Stay in the only military prison in Europe open to tourists and eat a prison meal in this unusual overnight accommodation in Latvia.
