• Some hotels in Ohio offer guests unique accomodations.ohio flagge symbol image by Marty Kropp from Fotolia.com
  
  Ohio's major cities have plenty of standard hotels for vacationers and business travelers. However, some hotels offer guests unique and distinct experiences that make them stand out in the crowded hospitality field. Historic and period hotels give guests a sense of a history with interesting architecture, vintage furniture and retro interiors.
  
  

Quaker Square Inn

• The Quaker Square Inn, at the University of Akron Hotel, is located in former silos that used to hold more than 1.5 million grain bushels. Each room is perfectly round, reflecting the silo shape. The historic hotel is on the National Register of Historic Places list. Hotel amenities include complimentary breakfast, a fitness center, free newspapers in the lobby, and Wi-Fi. The hotel can arrange Golf, Zoo, Cuyahoga Valley Railroad and Rock and Roll of Fame packages for guests. The Quaker Square Inn is in downtown Akron, less than a mile from the city's convention center and close to several other attractions in the area.
  
  Quaker Square Inn at The University of Akron Hotel
  
  135 South Broadway
  
  Akron, OH
  
  330-253-5970
  
  quakersquareakron.com
  
  

Historic Host

• Historic Hosts offers distinctive lodging experiences in unique structures. The Dunkle Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school that is also a guesthouse. The restored building includes vintage blackboards, students' and teacher's desks, stoves and other early-20th century schoolhouse items. It is equipped with modern bathroom and kitchen equipment and a bed set up next to a wall-size blackboard.
  
  Historic Hosts' Appalachian Quilt Cottage is a 1920s structure where a family lived, with a gas pump in the front of the house and an indoor sundries shop. The vintage products from the shop make up the décor of the living room area. The cottage has a kitchen and bedroom with modern amenities.
  
  Historic Hosts has virtual tours of the properties on its website.
  
  Historic Hosts
  
  106 East North St.
  
  P.O. Box 31
  
  McArthur, OH 45651
  
  877-364-4786
  
  historichost.com
  
  

Ravenwood Castle

• Ravenwood Castle is a rural hotel and resort in New Plymouth. Set on a cliff ina forest, it has a "castle" hotel, cottages and cabins on its grounds. The elaborate architecture of Ravenwood Castle and the hotel's guest activities are meant to evoke the feeling of living in medieval times. Guests can dine in a great hall and have tea service in a tea room. Rooms in the castle are named after English kings, queens and fairy tale lore such as Rapunzel's Tower. Castle rooms include a fireplace and deck or porch. The King Arthur room has a two-person Jacuzzi.
  
  Ravenwood Castle
  
  65666 Bethel Road
  
  New Plymouth, OH 45654
  
  740-596-2606
  
  ravenwoodcastle.com