I’ve stayed in some pretty crappy hotels in the past, but fortunately I’ve yet to wake up in an abandoned drain pipe. Yet. But now I can, with the help of Austrian artist Andreas Strauss, who has refurbished several “incredibly robust” drain pipes and converted them into hotel rooms — nice ones at that.
Dasparkhotel — just outside of Linz, Austria, on the Danube river — is an extremely simplistic, insanely budget (they’re on a “pay as you wish” scale) accommodation option for someone looking for a unique way to spend the night in Central Europe. You’ll have to wait until May, however; the hotel is closed for the winter season, which began in October.
Reservations for the Spring/Summer season can be made online by visiting their site, though I’m really not sure if this is something that is popular enough to need advanced reservations, or if the pipes sit empty for days on end. It’s really tough to tell.
Regardless, crashing in one of these large, concrete cylinders is sure to produce a good story to tell friends and family. “Mom, I woke up this morning in a drain pipe!”