Here's something fun to add to the list of recent hotel openings: Boatel, a new hotel-on-a-boat in an inlet off Jamaica Bay in Far Rockaway, Queens. Actually, a hotel on five boats, four refurbished pleasure boats and one houseboat, moored around one floating platform. It's open Thursdays through Sundays all summer, for a $50-$100 nightly "donation" (the Boatel isn't licensed as a business).
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