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Zero Desire to Stay at Switzerland's Zero Star Hotel

Where: St.Gallen, Switzerland

Well, we suppose this is cool and ironic in the way that wearing a 4-year-old's Puff the Magic Dragon t-shirt is ironic: two brothers in Switzerland have built literally a "zero star" hotel, the most bare-bones of bare-bones hotels, and are touting it as an "anti-luxury hotel" and selling nights for less than the cost of most cheap motels.

From the Dwell blog:

The Null Stern ("Zero Star") Hotel occupies a subterranean Swiss air raid shelter outside Zurich, which has served little purpose since the Cold War. Few updates were made to the place in order to ready it for guests. It costs less than a room at a Motel 6 (around $25/night), and you certainly get what you pay for: Rooms are arranged dormitory-style, with no walls between beds, a shared bath, and limited hot water.

No joke: instead of heaters, there are rubber hot water bottles hanging from clotheslines up along the windowless walls to provide "low-tech personal heat systems." Oh, and there are no windows.

The brothers who came up with (and run) the hotel are actually artists, and the place is actually described as an art installation on its official website. Can we start up a cheapo hotel here in the States and call it art? Because we could probably convert our windowless basement with a bit of paint and a quickie trip to IKEA.

Check out a video about the Null-Stern and a full description of the place here.