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Underwater Hotel?
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German hotel charges by the kg
A German hotel owner has defended his practice of charging guests according to how much they weigh.
The Hotel Ostfriesland asks guests to stand on a scale and then calculates its rate by charging EUR0.50 per kg.
Owner Juergen Heckrodt said there was a EUR74-euro limit for a double room for guests who did not want to stand on the scale. However, he claimed no guests had so far refused. In fact, some male guests had stripped of clothing in order to reduce the tariff.
Heckrodt credited a guest with the idea of charging by the kg. Each year the woman visited the hotel she complained about gaining weight and on one occasion Heckrodt joked he would soon start charging her an extra fee for the additional bulk. When, a year later, she returned 35 kg lighter, she asked him for a discount.
12 May 2006
here's more hotel stuff rofl now about those 2 weeks podge rofl
A German hotel owner has defended his practice of charging guests according to how much they weigh.
The Hotel Ostfriesland asks guests to stand on a scale and then calculates its rate by charging EUR0.50 per kg.
Owner Juergen Heckrodt said there was a EUR74-euro limit for a double room for guests who did not want to stand on the scale. However, he claimed no guests had so far refused. In fact, some male guests had stripped of clothing in order to reduce the tariff.
Heckrodt credited a guest with the idea of charging by the kg. Each year the woman visited the hotel she complained about gaining weight and on one occasion Heckrodt joked he would soon start charging her an extra fee for the additional bulk. When, a year later, she returned 35 kg lighter, she asked him for a discount.
12 May 2006
here's more hotel stuff rofl now about those 2 weeks podge rofl
Awesome website design. Must say I wont mind spending a few nights there myself allthough for some folks it could be a bit overwhelming 
Seems to me I recall an underwater hotel operating in the recent past somewhere in South Florida, possibly in the Keys. One entered the hotel 10m/33ft underwater. I think it was assembled from some Navy surplus hapitat modules. Now, there was a discreet little love nest! Wish I could recall more, but the chronic hypoxia has tolled its taken.
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You are absolutely correct there. It's the Jules Undersea Lodge. It was featured on a PBS travel show not too long ago.
"Welcome to the undersea Hotel Apnea, we charge $.50 for each breath you take..."
what a concept! (Sleep apneists would have an advantage.)
ps. my 366th post! I've posted more than a year's worth of days, (and in at least 1/2 of them posts I had my brain plugged in and fully functioning). Me: Not just a newbie anymore! But I really ought to go do some actual diving, it's been so long. I did a brief swim in Nor Cal recently, 100m in cold water at Crescent City, it was more pain than pleasure, but worth every stroke in pure determination. NEPO 777: mission accomplished. Swam 100m around the world. Wahoo!
what a concept! (Sleep apneists would have an advantage.)
ps. my 366th post! I've posted more than a year's worth of days, (and in at least 1/2 of them posts I had my brain plugged in and fully functioning). Me: Not just a newbie anymore! But I really ought to go do some actual diving, it's been so long. I did a brief swim in Nor Cal recently, 100m in cold water at Crescent City, it was more pain than pleasure, but worth every stroke in pure determination. NEPO 777: mission accomplished. Swam 100m around the world. Wahoo!
And we all know what the site still misses:
Pictures of freedivers in the lagoon and freedive lessons offered.
Richard my boss thought i was teaching diving for free... i doubt whether they know the term either