Have you ever been to the kind of family reunion where your great-aunt Shirley picks out a vacation home, hotel, or campground for everyone to stay in, and when you get there, you realize you?ll have zero peace and quiet" Finding the right balance of social interaction and privacy can be tough. After a while, you?re ready to chill out alone or in a smaller group, but you?re still right across the hall from everyone else, and any of them can come knocking on your door at any time. It?s enough to make you wish you could just sail away from it all for a little while.

Luckily, The Floating Hotel by Salt & Water lets you do just that. Designed for lakes and other inland bodies of water, the hotel consists of individual catamaran “apartments,” a floating dock, and a stationary central volume full of common spaces. The idea is that you can enjoy the hotel?s café, meeting rooms, and other public areas whenever you want, and then retreat back into your own private luxury vacation pod, either remaining at the dock or floating off to another section of the lake to be alone.
That makes it ideal for both group getaways and solo/couple trips. You get to enjoy nature and all the water-based recreational activities you can handle from a boat that doubles as a hotel suite, and you’ll have total control over how much you interact with other travelers. Each catamaran fits two to four people and contains its own bathroom, salon, galley, hall with storage space, a...