Travel: And Now--the Boatel

In all the world there is no motel like the Bilu. In Naples one day last week, several hundred tourists drove in and parked their cars, carted what they wanted into their cabins, fed the kids at the cafeteria and tucked them in, downed a drink or two at the bar or lived it up a little at the nightclub. Next day they gathered around the well-bikinied pool. The unique thing about it was that they were all at sea—literally. The Bilu is a motel that makes a 62-hour, 1,200-mile voyage twice a week between Italy and Israel.

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