Looking through today’s yahoo articles I found This One about some of the world’s most remote hotels. The third one in particular is Jules Undersea Lodge. Sounds cool and from the photo marked “Courtesy of Jules Undersea Lodge” looks even more impressive. I see a large room with a modern bed, a desk, what looks to be a jacuzzi off to the left, and an enormous viewing window. Wow!
So imagine my disappointment when going to the hotels website jul.com and looking through some of their photos. Where did that awesome room go?
Did yahoo screw up with a very misleading picture or did Jules Undersea Lodge really supply them with a very misleading picture?
Yeah, I hate to burst the bubble but I think your suspicion is valid. I looked at a number of Google hits and not only did none confirm that idyllic bedroom scene is associated with the hotel but diagrams of the Jules structure don’t show anything that remotely resembles it.
From here are some pictures and they all look vastly different.
Plus, this review snip paints a different picture entirely: *“But, it isn’t OFF the beautiful Florida Keys. It’s in Key Largo, set back in a brackish inlet with no coral reef. Looks like a pond. Visability is very limited and not to be compared to the ocean.” *
Yeah, I was really excited when I saw that picture. Going to the jul.com website, the slideshow is just lame!
Have a look at this site:
http://www.zimbio.com/Jules+Undersea+Lodge/articles/18/Amazing+UNDERWATER+Hotel+DESIGN
Despite the title “Jules Undersea Lodge”, the picture that captured your attention and the first one on this site (which seem to be the same thing) are apparently actually conceptual images of a to-be-built Pacific resort, which clearly isn’t the Jules Lodge, since the Jules Lodge has its entrance underwater and has no large areas of transparent walls, while the Poseidon Mystery Island has large quantities of transparent walls and an above-water entrance.
I’d be nervous, myself, with all that extended transparent wall, especially with nothing above it to block falling stuff. Lotsa potential energy stored in the form of that underwater air-breathing habitat.
By the way, although the copy says “submerged 40 feet”, that conceptual drawing looks more like 100 feet. But I suppose 40 feet wouldn’t look deep enough to fire up the investors.
Seems to be on Katafanga island of the Lau group, near the Fiji islands, and pricey at $15,000 per day or week, depending on your source:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5836496/poseidon_mystery_island_the_most_expensive.html?cat=54
http://www.cdnn.info/news/travel/t080208.html
http://www.islandsbusiness.com/fiji_business/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=17780/overideSkinName=issueArticle-full.tpl
Here’s their own website:
I don’t know, I would still do it for the hell of it =)
I always had fond memories of the movie Hello Down There …
How hard would it be to actually put your own Hello Down There facility up somewhere in the keys?
Ha ha! I initially clicked the urls without having read the OP, and thought, “WTF?” I then read the OP and laughed some more. And to think, I briefly thought that while $550/night is much more than I generally pay for a hotel, I’d totally swing it for that kind of place. Turns out I have to pay $15,000 for it. Never mind. 
The small cramped one in the swamp is $550, the glorious SFictional thing of opulent beauty in the south seas is $15000 … there are 2 different luv shax being discussed here =)
I know. Tis the source of my disappointment.
I actually got married at Jules in Key Largo 20 years ago. It was a unique way to get married…30 feet under the surface. Still enjoy looking at the video tape we did, LOL
Did Yahoo change their page? I see no reference to Jules in the link…
It looks as if they did. They originally had a picture that looked like the upper right one from the fourfold matrix on this page:
http://www.zimbio.com/Jules+Undersea...R+Hotel+DESIGN
Since the Poseidon Mystery place is first, but the notation under the pictures refers to the Jules Underwater Hotel (which is actually the next one, below that notice), I suspect that the author of the Yahoo article used this very page to research his article, and thought the Poseidon Mystery pictures went with the Jules hotel description, and attributed them incorrectly. In other words – the author’s fault, not the hotels. Somebody musta wised him up, and he removed the reference to Jules entirely (which isn’t fair, IMHO – it’s still interesting) Probably not picturesque enough for their tastes.