A Scuba Diver Will Deliver Pizza to You at this Underwater Hotel

If that’s not bragging rights, I don’t know what is

Something peculiar is inside that bright yellow box. Water pools beneath it as a man treading water waits for you to look inside. You squat down to unlatch the clasps and open the lid. An undeniably familiar scent hits you — it’s New York-style cheese pizza — brought to your underwater hotel room, some 30 feet below the surface.

Yes fam, Jules Undersea Lodge is the only hotel in the world where a scuba diver will hand-deliver pizza right to your door. In fact, the Lodge bills itself as the world’s only underwater hotel where scuba diving is the only way to get to your room.

Once a marine research center, the hotel is located in a lagoon in South Florida’s Key Largo Undersea Park, where manatees, seahorses, tropical angelfish and parrot fish pay regular visits. Here, guests can get certified as a PADI Open Water Diver or simply get their feet wet with a PADI Discover Scuba Diving course. In any event, guests must be scuba-certified or enrolled in one of the property’s courses in order to check-in.

They say good things come in small packages, and that might very well be the case at this tiny, two-room hotel. To ensure privacy, guests can reserve the full underwater lodge for themselves for an additional $175. And I mean, could you imagine sharing the undersea space with two total strangers? Like … there’s nowhere to go!

That said, packages for two start at $800 per night and include dive gear, refreshments, continental breakfast and, of course, pizza delivered via scuba diver. Even with dinner, we’re talking about $975 to have the place to yourself for just one night — that’s a lot of cheddar, especially to stay in a hotel that looks like it needed a refurb about 15 years ago.

Thankfully, there’s an option for those of us who want to have the pizza experience but aren’t dying to spend the night. The hotel offers a three-hour visit to the Lodge with a pizza lunch for $150. Gear is not included, and if you’re not Scuba-certified, you’ll be required to take the aforementioned Discover Scuba Diving course.

Is it worth it? Idk. It might be a fun day trip from Miami. Seriously, who else in your friend group can say they’ve done something as bananas as this?

Jules Undersea Lodge is located some 30 feet below the surface. Images courtesy of Jules Undersea Lodge.