Airbnb Takes Vacation from Sanity, Offers French Alps Stay in a Dangling Gondola

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Airbnb would very much like to dangle you and your friends 9,000 feet above the French Alps.

No, this isn’t some shakedown like in so many crime movies; it’s yet another chapter in Airbnb’s growing list of peculiar and wacky accommodations. This time around it’s a room with a truly astounding view as you can win a chance to stay in a gondola resting over the renowned Courchevel resort.

The Guardian’s Will Coldwell reports the same people who brought you such hits as a stay at Andrés Iniesta’s vineyard and a sleepover at Waterstones is now accommodating those who laugh in the face of extremely cold heights. 

Those interested are encouraged to visit Airbnb’s listing for the Courchevel accommodations and write in 100 words or less why you and three pals deserve to stay in a gondola that certainly appears to be more spacious on the inside, like some winter getaway TARDIS.

 

As for the details, the gondola will accommodate four people with two beds on the night of March 6, getting the party started with food for the stomach and wine for the nerves.

If that sounds like your goblet of wine, get your submission in by close of day on Feb. 25.

As for ground rules, Airbnb states, among other things, “If the gondola’s a rockin’ don’t come a knockin’.” That is also joined by the humorous, “Please leave your feedback on a foggy window.” 

Let’s just hope the latter isn’t how you request to use the bathroom, of which there are none included on the gondola.

Now this will of course attract a great many who covet the resort’s pristine snow. If you aren’t at all familiar, this video should serve as a primer to all that Courchevel has to offer:

The ritzy resort is undoubtedly filled with people who are hard to impress. These are the same sort who showed up in a private plane after all.

However, you will win the day when you regale pub patrons with the news that you aren’t staying at the resort but, delightfully, over it.

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