Tempting as it may be to linger in the fanciful rooms and shaded courtyards, guests will eventually have to exit the cocoon.
It was, in short, the most fanciful hotel room I'd ever seen.
Set on nearly two-thirds of an acre, the Mediterranean-style home has a grand foyer with a sweeping staircase, a fanciful children's room, a gym, a game room, a gift-wrapping area, a movie room, a beauty salon, a guesthouse with a recording studio, and a total of six bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
It is a principle that rooms that are only occasionally occupied may be more showy and fanciful than ordinary living rooms, and these are most often met with in hotels and restaurants and other places of entertainment.
It's not that I don't welcome surreal and fanciful reinventions of the court room.
And while La Ferme de Mon Père is not a hotel, there is a handsome bedroom, a fanciful replica of the farmhouse rooms of Mr. Veyrat's childhood.
A further complication is the theory that today's Tigris and Euphrates are not the same as the biblical ones, a notion that allows, as Wilensky-Lanford puts it, room for a more "fanciful geography".
Employing the finest craftsmen of the day he spent five years building a fanciful collection of pocket gardens, banquet rooms, prayer halls and a single-seat opera house.
The intention is that the room will be functional, not fanciful.
All the lines of these structures are embellished with colored projections that suggest sharp-toothed leaves, and each room contains one or several fanciful "captured" demons or spirits, whose malevolence was controlled, the artist makes clear, by their confinement.
