The Stockholm airport is about to launch the first-ever "hostel in a jet" later this week. It's called the Jumbo Hostel. The story goes like this: Rich businessman + airplane fetish = accommodations for 72 just outside the entrance to Swedish hub Arlanda Airport. For around $300 a night, you too can enjoy sleeping inside the renovated Boeing 747; if you're lucky you might score one of the four rooms located in the original engines hanging off the wings.
There are multiple options for aviation aficionados -- hostel standard, with several beds in one room (cheapest); a private room option that has you sharing showers and toilets in the corridors; and the luxury cockpit suite, which has a private shower and toilet (that one costs $830 a night). All rooms come with free wifi. There's rumor of $25 short stays for those with long layovers, but the website says nothing of the kind. No word on complimentary earplugs for all the surrounding airport noises -- you know, like planes taking off and landing.


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