Stay Free On Display: This Bizarre Glass Box Hotel Room Shows You Off To Everyone!

Glass windows – or no separation at all – between bedroom and bathroom was a trend in hotels for awhile. It was stylish, but awkward. No privacy at all! But there’s a hotel that has a room with all glass to the outside where people can see in! If you stay there, it’s free – but you’re the entertainment.

You can’t even turn off the lights, since there’s basically a spotlight on you. I think I’d be most concerned about… being boring. No one would want to look?

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A woman in Ibiza, Spain shared her hotel room experience. It’s truly unique, and you can stay there for free. The room has glass walls. It’s in the center of the hotel lobby. Everyone can see inside.

It’s the Paradiso Art Hotel in Ibiza, Spain. And it’s both creepy and an online content creator’s dream.

They have the ‘Zero Suite’ that’s described as “media-friendly” (every guest’s nightmare) and features an art gallery and tattoo parlor. The suite is priced at $0 for one night – and each guest can stay in it only once per year – but you’re staying inside a fish bowl. According to the hotel,

Each one of our hotels has a wow factor or unique feature that makes the hotel much more than just a building with rooms in it, and creates experiences that the guest will remember long after they check out.

…[The room’s] walls are entirely made of glass. It’s a completely furnished room with a bed, a table, chairs, and a bathroom with a toilet and shower.

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For the record, other guests can’t see into the bathroom!

I’m the most boring person ever in a hotel room. I arrive and wash up. Then I plug in my devices, unpack shirts and jackets that may have wrinkled a bit in my bag so they can hang overnight. I may need to go out right away, order in food to eat from a local delivery service while I work, or just crash straight away. No one would pay to see that.

I can’t imagine anyone would stop and stare, but then again, there are people who would pay to watch — a hotel room with live webcams. Someone had the idea of luring guests into rooms where they can be watched with the chance that their stay will be free. They think they can generate room revenue and sell access to the feed of the rooms.

The idea is quite simple. All hotel rooms will be covered by a system of HD webcams, streaming live on a 24/7 basis, so every subscriber might be able to catch-up with what is happening at anytime, on any room. If you come to the hotel, you will experience and enjoy an affordable 5-Stars Luxury Service, that will make you completely forget that some cameras are ON. Or you may opt to stay at home, simply choosing which room will you watch tonight… this is the REAL REALITY SHOW TO SEE!

They were looking to raise $2.7 million in crowdfunding for the project. They raised exactly zero. Gee, I wonder why.

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Comments

  1. How long until enterprising prostitutes book it to display their wares? Or is that basically the entire concept in the first place?

  2. Gary Leff writes, “The suite is priced at $0 for one night.” Hopefully, there will be no additional fees such as resort, parking, or early checkout fees. A glass box fishbowl-type hotel room priced at zero dollars is an excellent example of “transparent” consumer pricing and accommodations. Clear pricing is much better than the opaque pricing strategy popular in the travel industry.

    To mark World Toilet Day on November 19, 2015, the Global Poverty Project brought a “see-through toilet” to Washington Square Park in New York City, courtesy of Unilever/Domestos. Domestos dumped this working see-through toilet in Washington Square Park to help people experience what it is like to “go” in public.

    New Yorkers experienced what it’s like for the 2.4 billion people who don’t have access to a basic toilet and the almost one billion people who are forced to defecate in the open. Global Citizen encouraged citizens to “give a shit” about World Toilet Day.

  3. Too bad the bathroom is off limits. Then you could see what people really do to the shampoo pumps in the shower, Gary.

  4. I’ve been to the beach and I have slept on an airplane. I might be ok with spending a night for getting it for free.

  5. Great way to practice Jainism, ridding oneself of shame, self consciousness, in fact the idea of the self itself

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