Pipe Dreams: Sewer Pipe Hotel Rooms in Germany

Get Some Z's in Europe Without the Smell

Funny Idea

Leave it up to our European cousins to come up with another funny idea. The last time it was cheap coffins from the Netherlands.

This time it's another whacky idea from Germany.

Pipe Dreams Gone Mad

Let's say you're zipping along the autobahn. You've been at it for hours, and the stress of driving 300 mph is beginning to take its toll. You decide to catch some Z's and want to do it in style. Assuming you're averse to sleeping in the gutter, you can do the next best thing without getting dirty: try sleeping in a sewer pipe!

Where can one do this? In the town of Ottensheim, Germany, at a place so conveniently located near the scenic Danube River.

The hotel - if you want to call it one - is named: Das Park Hotel, otherwise also known more trendily as DasParkHotel.

Sewer Pipe Hotel Rooms

As the website so artfully proclaims, each hotel room is made "from repurposed, incredibly robust drain pipes." See this pictures.

Furthermore, each concrete sewer pipe encapsulates "an unexpectedly comfortable interior - full headroom, double bed, storage, light, power, woolly blanket and light cotton sleeping bag. All other hotelery devices (Toilets, showers, minibar, cafe, etc) are supplied by the surrounding public space."

An Alternative to Hostels

For those folks prone to frequent movement on the cheap, you might want to try this as a new twist to the traditional cheap-as-dirt hostel or the more recently hip "couch surfing" alternatives.

Cheap: You Set the Price

Since sleeping in a sewer pipe is arguably one notch away from sleeping in the gutter, you could easily pose the argument that resting your head against a concrete pipe shouldn't have to cost all that much.

Well, you're in luck.

Apparently the folks who run this facility don't really care what you pay them. At the time of this writing, their website does not include any prices and openly invites you to casually drop your payment (whatever you feel like) before you leave.

Again, as they so candidly state it: "We see "pay as you wish" as a system where customers leave a Euro amount that they can afford and with which they wish to support our project."

So, Where Is It?