"Use Your Hamster Style"
The Wise One
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-11-18
[PHOTO: French architect Frederic Tabary poses inside the "Hamster's
Villa", imagined and conceived by Tabary together with architect Yann
Falquerho, during an interview with Reuters in Nantes, western France,
November 8, 2009. Agencies]
NANTES: It's a unique concept according to its creators, a hotel in the
French town of Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster.
For 99 euros ($148.10) a night, you can eat hamster grain, run in a
giant wheel and sleep in hay stacks in what is called the "Hamster Villa."
Maud and Sebastien are the first ones to experience how hamsters live,
not afraid at the thought of sleeping in hay or feeding on a hamster
fountain and special grain.
It's a unique experience and, the guests say, just something different.
"To become a hamster, eat seeds, change our way of life...come out of
our daily routine," Maud and Sebastien told Reuters TV.
The owners, Frederic Tabary and Yann Falquerho, run a company which
rents out unusual and bizarre places.
"The Hamster in the world of children is that little cuddly animal.
Often, the adults who come here have wanted or did have hamsters when
they were small," Falquerho said, dressed as a hamster.
However, the price is soon to go up as today's hamsters need, according
to the owners, Wifi and a giant TV screen.
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