Would you stay here? Guests hoisted onto NC's 'most dangerous hotel'

BALD HEAD ISLAND, N.C. -- A group of travelers were dropped off by boat before being lifted up to a decommissioned Coast Guard lighthouse off Bald Head Island, North Carolina.

Footage taken by boating charter owner Austin Aycock shows him and his passengers traveling to Frying Pan Tower, an old lighthouse repurposed into an environmental research station. Once they arrived, the passengers were hoisted 80 feet in the air onto the tower's main platform.

"We'll come back in a couple days and pick them up," Aycock says in the video.

Beyond serving as a center for oceanic and environmental studies, Frying Pan Tower also offers accommodation for researchers and tourists alike.

The tower was nicknamed "most dangerous hotel in the world" due to its daunting entry point, close proximity to frequent hurricanes and presence of sharks in the waters below.