Image via Sydney Morning Herald.
For one magical day in Sydney, Australia, you can sleep in an IKEA without people looking at you funny or getting all judgmental.
Reasonably priced meatballs make us sleepy, after all.
The Sydney Morning Herald's Annie Dang (h/t The Huffington Post) reports IKEA, the purveyor of items mandating your Sunday to put together, is letting a few lucky folks sleep in a Sydney location as if it were an Airbnb booking.
Dang writes, "In a one-night only stunt, Australians will be given the chance to bed down at IKEA's Tempe store for a giant slumber party through accommodation booking site Airbnb. IKEA will be transforming its room sets into 'quirky accommodation' options for three groups of up to four guests for one night on Sunday 31 August."
I once got lost in an IKEA, unable to find the lower levels or an exit for far longer than I care to admit. At one point, I thought about calling off the search and settling down in one of the faux bedrooms for the rest of my life. When life hands you a conundrum, sometimes it's best to shut it all down and set up shop.
Well, I really could have used something like this at the time.
The same could be said for countless shoppers who wade through the maze of rooms, considering a 15-minute snooze as if it were free mints at restaurants.
Now you can get more information at Airbnb's official website, where they describe how to apply for quite the unusual stay.
Essentially, you would sign up for the accommodations as you would normally, adding in a section where you explain why you and your respective guests deserve to sleep the night away amid Fjalkinges and Ektorps.
As you see at the website, there is a small administration fee, but other perks should draw a flood of travelers to the website. Officials state, "By entering, you agree to be part of an event that will be covered by the media. Oh, and that you will be woken in the morning in a remarkable way. Nothing frightening-we promise!"
We just assume they mean reasonably priced hot dogs will be thrown at your face until you wake up.
If that's not enough, Dang reports those staying at IKEA will get to take their sheets home with them. For the rest of us, we will have to settle for sleeping at IKEA until someone tells us it's closing time.
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