15 January 2009
HOLLANDER HOTEL FOR TANKED TRAGICS
1. Drink contents. 2. Have a nice lie down.
DRINKSTER can't report on the aroma of these bedrooms, but we suppose a race of dudes who wear wooden shoes and prefer their cheese with 27% more cavities won't be bothered by a whoof of Beaujolais, which is where de Vrowre van Stavoren Hotel, a Dutch establishment, got these big old vats.
While each originally held 14,500 liters of sleeping fluid, each vat now sports modest sleeping arrangements for two, with a narrow cot down each side, a little like the inside of a wooden boat.
Having nursed dangerous archictectural tendencies for years, DRINKSTER thinks a water bed filled with Beaujolais would have made more sense in the bottom of each compartment: a small valve on each side would see the wine pumped into the occupants of said cot with the appropriate surges.
Now, a teepee made from bladder packs ... an igloo built from frozen ones?