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Post by High Priestess on Oct 7, 2015 22:46:48 GMT
Peter shared Oct 7 2015 Halloween Night in Paris Catacombs!! Airbnb is running a writing competition. bit.ly/1L0bue7 Prize is stay for two 10/31 to 11/1 and a night in the Paris Catacombs. If you're going early to the Paris Open, here's a chance to kill two birds. Here are part of the rules: "Go to the 'Night At Paris Catacombs' listing page bit.ly/1L0bue7 Click on ‘Contact the Host’ button and explain to the host why you think you're brave enough to sleep in the Paris Catacombs. In the form provided write a story of 100 words maximum – in English or in French – explaining why you think you're brave enough to sleep in the Paris Catacombs (the 'Submission')" Also, among the rules: "The Contest is not open to residents from: Crimea Region of Ukraine, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Sudan, any country subject to embargo by the United States, or the Province of Quebec." My two cents: What the hell's wrong with Quebec? :-) News stories: www.adweek.com/adfreak/airbnb-offers-ultimate-halloween-sleepover-night-paris-catacombs-167482www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-10-07/morning-news-airbnb-adds-bed-in-paris-catacombs-nefertiti |
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Post by Olivier François on Oct 14, 2015 10:45:28 GMT
"The Catacombs of Paris are underground OSSUARIES in Paris, France. Located south of the former city gate (the "Barrière d’Enfer" at today's Place Denfert-Rochereau), the ossuaries hold the remains of about 6 MILLION people...". From my personal point of view it's totally disrespectful to organize an advert campain to win a night with in a cementery. In the media Airbnb is accused of profanation and it seems that winner night will be eventful. They will have amazing anecdotes to tell us about.
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Post by High Priestess on Oct 14, 2015 11:34:43 GMT
From my personal point of view it's totally disrespectful to organize an advert campain to win a night with in a cementery. In the media Airbnb is accused of profanation Uh-oh....Airbnb is in trouble again?   |
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Post by Olivier François on Oct 14, 2015 19:40:15 GMT
I don't think so but this campain would perhaps be less successful than the Galerie Lafayette one
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Post by High Priestess on Nov 3, 2015 10:12:04 GMT
A winner of the contest has been announced! Breakfast with skulls: Halloween night in Paris Catacombs www.sfgate.com/news/article/Breakfast-with-skulls-Halloween-night-in-Paris-6603551.php  Guest Brazilian Pedro Arruda, 27, poses in the bed prior to spend the Halloween night with his mother Monica in Paris' creepy Catacombs amid skulls and bones, in Paris, France, Saturday, Oct, 31, 2015. House-sharing company Airbnb has struck a spooky one-off deal with Paris' City Hall to sublet the subterranean ossuaries, the final resting place of 6 million bodies, on Nov. 31 to the winner of a worldwide competition. Photo: Francois Mori, AP / AP
Photo: Francois Mori, AP
IMAGE 1 OF 5 Guest Brazilian Pedro Arruda, 27, poses in the bed prior to spend the Halloween night with his mother Monica in Paris' creepy Catacombs amid skulls and bones, in Paris, France, Saturday, Oct, 31, 2015. ... more
PARIS (AP) — This Halloween, two brave souls got the dubious honor of waking up among 6 million dead bodies in Paris' creepy Catacombs.
Brazilian Pedro Arruda, 27, said he wasn't sure if he was lucky or unlucky when he found out he had won a contest sponsored by home-sharing company Airbnb to spend the night 20 meters (65 feet) underground.
Visitors to Paris can tour the dark, 200-mile (322 kilometer) underground labyrinth (though the website warns the tour is unsuitable for "people with heart or respiratory problems, those of a nervous disposition and young children") but they don't generally get to stay the night.
Arruda, who took his 64-year-old mother for company, doesn't fear the millions of dead roommates. The words "Halt, this is the realm of Death" loom above the entrance, as narrow passages and dark mazes open up into Gothic arrangements of stacked bones. Bodies were transferred there starting in the late 1700s after Paris' public graveyards were closed due to health fears.
"I'd be much more scared if they were alive," he said.
The prize includes a double bed in a candle-lit stone chamber and dinner, as well as a violin concert and a storyteller to get them in the Halloween spirit. Airbnb struck a deal with Paris City Hall to donate 300,000 euros ($331,000) in exchange for using the Catacombs for the night.
Arruda describes himself as a "history nerd" and said he relished the idea of waking up in a site that houses the remains of great men like writers Francois Rabelais and Jean de la Fontaine as well as the feared revolutionary Georges Danton, who was guillotined.
The one drawback to sleeping in a chamber equipped for the dead? There is no toilet.  |
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