Sleeping in This Underwater Hotel Room Is Like Staying in an Artificial Reef

For those who haven’t heard, there is such a thing as aquarium therapy. Watching fish, the evidence suggests, may reduce muscle tension, pulse rate and other symptoms of stress.    So you’d imagine that guests staying at the Manta Resort off the coast of Tanzania’s Pemba Island would depart feeling like a trillion bucks after soaking up the immersive panoramic views of exotic sea life made possible by the resort’s newly unveiled underwater hotel room. For $1,500 per room per night, visitors can sunbathe and stargaze on the upper-level sky deck, make relaxing use of the lounge on the water-level or descend down to the submerged chamber where they can cap the night by falling asleep atop a seabed surrounded by the nightlight glow of jellyfish and other bioluminescent marine creatures that swim by.….MORE