People have been left in stitches after satellite images showed a hotel with a rather phallic shape. The Scarlet Hotel describes itself as an "eco sanctuary on the rugged Cornish clifftops, just for adults" and from the ground looks like a normal hotel.
Th venue is set against a bay at Mawgan Porth, near Newquay, Cornwall, with a stunning beach and headland behind it. But its guests have been left shocked after aerial shots revealed a complex that lived up to its adults-only strapline.
Some even said they couldn't believe the original architect hadn't been "in on the joke" when designing the building - given its striking resemblance to a human penis. Commenting on the images on Facebook, Bryan Andrews said: "You cannot help thinking that the architect/designer was sitting sketching in his/her armchair with nothing on the telly box thinking `I wonder if I can get this part the planning dept?`
"And happy days they did. How on earth it wasn`t picked up on at the planning stage is beyond me." Another local added: "Wow that looks like the architect knew EXACTLY what he was doing."
The structure is so big that it is not visible in its eye-raising form on the ground - but the satellite images leave little to the imagination.
Another observer added: "Only looking at it on Google Earth from a certain angle can you get the full picture. But once you see it, it is impossible to link it to anything else. It is apparently an in-joke amongst some locals and images have been published before - but something like this needs to be shared with a wider audience."
