French hamster hotel lets guests live like rodents
A French hotel is offering guests the chance to live like a hamster for a day.
It's a unique concept according to its creators. A hotel in the French city of
Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster.
For 99 euros (£88) a night, visitors to the hotel in Nantes can feast on hamster grain, get a workout by running in a giant wheel and sleep in hay stacks in the suite called the "Hamster Villa".
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Below you can find a news video clip of an interview with home decorator Frédéric Tabary, one of the two men who created the room. The interview is in French, but the pictures really tell the story.
Heavy petting at France's human hamster hotel
So where did the idea come from? Yann Falquerho, the 42-year-old scenographer who lets the property through his quirky urban gîte company, Un Coin Chez Soi, told me that he and Frédéric Tabary, the interior designer with whom he works, had wanted to find something that was simply "very funny".
"We wanted to create a place that was a real gîte - a place where you could sleep and be comfortable - but also where you could have a real experience," he explained. "We wanted it to be eccentric and we decided that the funniest experience would be to become an animal."
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