Californian startup Hipcamp is bringing the outdoors to life the Airbnb way, introducing a camping concept that allows camping enthusiasts to stay on stunning private land.
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We know Paris as the city of love, light, fashion and art. We know it for the Eiffel Tower, cafes, French loaves, the Louvre, the Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe, the Notre-Dame Cathedral... But Paris also hides a dark side: the Paris Catacombs (Catacombes de Paris), or the largest grave in the world. And these catacombs can be your last, sorry, next overnight stay in the French capital. Airbnb is offering two "lucky people" to spend the night on Halloween in underground corridors with more than 6 million human skeletons. Did your skin get goosebumps too?
On the online accommodation marketplace Airbnb, you can rent a room that is a perfect replica of Van Gogh's famous painting The Bedroom, a "portrait" of a bedroom in the Yellow House in Arles, France. A copy of the room in the style of the painting is in Chicago, and it was furnished in a postmodernist style by the Art Institute of Chicago.
Guests staying in the Scottish suite The Open Book are given the chance to manage the bookstore on the ground floor during their stay. The apartment is located in the village of Wigtown in Scotland, and an overnight stay for two people costs 35 euros per night. But the rent includes not only hosting in the apartment, free internet and laptop, but also running a bookstore, where you have to do everything a full-time bookseller does and work the same number of hours a week.
Lovers of aquariums and the movie Throat, beware! We have the perfect tourist break for you. Aquarium de Paris, the first underwater Airbnb accommodation where you spend the night in the company of sharks. It is a round room with a 360-degree view of the seabed, which is the habitat of as many as 35 sharks! An overnight stay in the oldest aquarium in the world, home to more than 10,000 animals and more than 500 species, between April 11 and 13, 2016 awaits three lucky people, who will submit the most original proposal by April 3 as to why they deserve to sleep in the company of marine predators .
Airbnb offers you a unique opportunity to spend Halloween in Count Dracula's castle, located in Bran (Romania). You also have to be lucky, because Airbnb will choose only one lucky person based on online applications. Anyone who wants to spend the night in the famous castle in Transylvania must reveal what they would say to Count Dracula if they happened to meet him.
An unlimited number of beds and bathrooms, food everywhere you turn, enough fresh air to export and a panoramic view! What a luxury resort this must be, you wonder, huh? It's not. It's quite a whole country, Sweden more precisely. Is this a joke or is it a new way of tourist promotion through popular online platforms?
It all started with a seemingly completely ordinary idea. The roommates in San Francisco could no longer afford to pay the rent, which by the way is incredibly high, and thought of remodeling the apartment so that they could rent it out to three more visitors. Inflatable bed and breakfast pillows might solve their housing problem for a while, they thought. Nine years later, the value of this idea is 25 billion US dollars.
You probably wished you had a treehouse when you were a kid, right? Hidden in the treetops, they would be playing with their friends, and most importantly, their parents would be somewhere far away. Unfortunately, most of us have not been able to realize this dream, but it is still not too late. On Airbnb, they offer their realization, and according to Airbnb, it is also the most popular Airbnb accommodation in the world.
The universe rarely reminds us of ourselves, because we already have a lot of work to do on Earth. Well, maybe on warm summer nights we often look up at the stars. But when the universe 'pats us on the shoulder', it's always for something special. This time it's the USA's turn. On August 21, Americans will be able to observe a total solar eclipse for the first time in 100 years. As befits them, they will 'decorate' the event a little more. Are you wondering how?
Do you admire different architectural styles, but admire them more or less online? Do you sigh deeply when you see unusual buildings and wish you could take a peek inside them? Not just take a peek, maybe just spend a day or two in them? Well, you can, you just have to turn in the right direction.
A month ago, we introduced you to the Lego house, which was designed in the architectural studio of Bjarka Ingels. You remember, don't you? Well, a month later, Lego joined forces with Airbnb, the hottest accommodation provider in the world right now. You probably already know what they have prepared.