You can sleep in an Ice Hotel in Quebec City or the original one in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden -- but only in winter. Now comes a report from Sweden that visitors to Stockholm might have a new option for an unusual (and inexpensive) year-round accommodation at Arlanda Airport.
Businessman Oscar Diös from the university city of Uppsala has been granted permission to open a youth hostel in a Boeing 747 (top right) that has been parked at the airport's third runway for years. Among other mind-blowing aspects to this story is that Arlanda has a spare runway to begin with.
Businessman Oscar Diös from the university city of Uppsala has been granted permission to open a youth hostel in a Boeing 747 (top right) that has been parked at the airport's third runway for years. Among other mind-blowing aspects to this story is that Arlanda has a spare runway to begin with.
Diös plans to replace the 500 seats in the main cabin with 80 beds and turn t
he cockpit into a suite, while preserving some of the equipment.” The scuffed-up, engineless 747 was once flown by a Swedish charter airline, Transjet, which lost its license in 2002 and has been marooned at the airport ever since. No date has been given for the transformation from jumbo jet to youth hostel. If this scheme succeeds, Diös has said that he would like to start a chain of similar airport hostels elswhere in the world and call them Jumbo Hostels.
he cockpit into a suite, while preserving some of the equipment.” The scuffed-up, engineless 747 was once flown by a Swedish charter airline, Transjet, which lost its license in 2002 and has been marooned at the airport ever since. No date has been given for the transformation from jumbo jet to youth hostel. If this scheme succeeds, Diös has said that he would like to start a chain of similar airport hostels elswhere in the world and call them Jumbo Hostels.It might seem like a loopy idea, but so did the Ice Hotel when it was launched in 1990, but it has been wildly successful in Sweden and Canada, and there are also ice hotels in Finland, Norway, Scotland and most recently (since 2005) an ice and snow in China (bottom right).
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Great idea - Being an aviation geek I would stay there in a second.
ReplyDeleteBonus points if they made the cockpit cabin into a private room.
Once upon a long time ago, there was a restaurant in an old airplane parked at Colordo's Erie Tir-County Airport (or whatever that general aviaition airport is called). That would have had your name on it too. I never ate there, so can't comment on the food part -- only the novelty of the site.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Solo's in the Springs? Isn't that in an airplane too. Somebody was telling me about it but I can't remember any details. I want to try it.
ReplyDeleteIce hotels. Cool!
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