The holiday rental company is offering people the chance to stay in the infamous Catacombs on October 31, and guarantees that along with the stacked up bones and countless skeletons, there’ll also be a real bed, dinner, a private concert, and even breakfast.
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France Country Manager of Airbnb Nicolas Ferrary said, “Our travelers are always on the lookout for original experiences and what could be more unique for Halloween than spending a night among the bones and ghosts below Paris”.
The 20-metre-deep Paris catacombs contain the remains of more than six million people, possibly making it one of the spookiest places you could spend a night.
Between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, human remains were moved from Parisian cemeteries to the tunnels – former stone quarries – in response to public health concerns as local cemeteries became full.
“Before bedtime, a storyteller will have you spellbound with fascinating tales from the catacombs, guaranteed to produce nightmares”.
The Paris town hall said the privatization of the Catacombs would “boost capital by finding new sources of revenue (and allow for) the preservation of this heritage site”. Upon entering the tunnels, the Airbnb guests will be greeted with the words “Halt, this is the realm of death”.
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According to The Guardian, the website paid around €350,000 for access to the tunnels, which it warns the winners to respect as they would their own graves.
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Airbnb, which was launched in 2008 and now has a few 40 million users worldwide, recently agreed to pay a tourist tax to Paris from each of its bookings in the city.
