Newest Travel Craze - Sleeping In Beds Of Hay

Posted by Queuebot in Travel & Places on September 17, 2009 at 7:57 pm


The travel industry may be suffering during these tough economic times, but hotels in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have found a way to attract new visitors – let them sleep in beds of freshly raked hay in converted barns. For as little as 8 Euros per night ($11 U.S.),  backpackers, couples, families, and (in the case of one German hotel) groups of up to 60 can bond by eating together around a camp fire and then
rolling around in the hay.

Without the need for new construction, heavy laundry bills or other forms of high energy consumption, hay hotels are also an effective means of low-impact, sustainable tourism.

Link – via holeinthedonut

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10 comments to "Newest Travel Craze - Sleeping In Beds Of Hay"

  1. Hmmm
    September 17th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    A sign of the second coming of Christ perhaps?

  2. Alex
    September 17th, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    Hm, any excuse for a roll in the hay ;)

  3. grcooper
    September 18th, 2009 at 1:43 am

    good god.. when I think of travel, I think of a vacation... So when I think of a vacation - I sure don't think of sleeping on hay! Yea maybe it's cheap, but no.. not for me anyways

  4. Skipweasel
    September 18th, 2009 at 2:20 am

    Despite being part of the EU, we seem to have different rules to Germany. I can't see the fire regulations in the UK ever allowing a hotel to do this. We'd have enough trouble with the camp-fire, but flammable beds?

  5. Lasse
    September 18th, 2009 at 3:34 am

    I think we are taking this whole environmentalist thing a bit too far now.

  6. SWFLguy
    September 18th, 2009 at 7:08 am

    Alex beat me to it---save the "Young Frankenstein" comments. BTW--I worked at a Boy Scout camp years ago and we provided straw for large cloth bags to be used as matresses for the campers.

  7. Nicole B
    September 18th, 2009 at 8:27 am

    Well obviously none of these people have allergies...

  8. Skipweasel
    September 18th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    Nicole B ; Antihistamines.

  9. Joufy
    September 18th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    This isn't a new fad, and it's not about environmentalism either. These types of "hotels" have been around for about 15 years in Europe.That's like someone saying the Ice Hotel is about being green.

  10. FishBottleT
    September 19th, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    I figure a bed is a bed. They used to stuff matresses with this stuff so if you wanna rough it like the old days then you can.


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