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Welcome to the Sand-Hotel

July 24, 2008 2:25 PM

By Ammu Kannampilly, ABC News London

The world’s first-ever sand hotel is open for business.

That’s right, it’s a hotel made entirely of sand – 1,000 tons of it, to be exact – and it’s accepting guests at the rate of $20 a night.

Situated on Weymouth Beach in Dorset, England, the hotel offers twin and double bedrooms, but no roof – all the better to enjoy a starlit sky at night.

The beds are made of sand, there are no toilets and, if it rains – as it does so often during the English summer – well, then the hotel’s doors will literally be washed away.

The hotel was built by sand sculptor Mark Anderson and his team of four for the U.K. Web site Laterooms.com.

Jenny Lomas, a spokesperson for the Web site, told ABC News that the hotel was built to capitalize on British “nostalgia about childhood beach holidays.”

The site claims that 57 percent of would-be vacationers in the U.K. are staying home this summer because of a rising cost of living and green concerns about air travel.

But Britons keen to return to the seaside and try out this hotel had better hurry – the first night is already sold out, and there’s no predicting when the rains might strike and wash this sand castle away.

July 24, 2008 in Ammu Kannampilly | Permalink | User Comments (1)

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