http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/17/2745682.htm?site=news

Hotel offers guests night as hamster

A hotel in the French town of Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster.

For 99 euros ($158) a night, you can eat hamster grain, run in a giant wheel, 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 is 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 said.

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,” Mr 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.

Okay, I can imagine this being quite the popular idea for the furry fandom, but I doubt that other people would do it more than once for the experience; I doubt that there would be many repeat customers among the latter group.

Am I the only one who saw this and thought “Oh, Mouse had sextuplets, and ate two of them”?

Mmm… no… Not even furries would go for that.. It’s just.. well, silly. Plus, furries tend to be very picky about their accomodations. They may go for octuple occupancy during a con, but that little mint had DAMN WELL BETTER BE ON THE PILLOW… *twitch*

But yes, that’s just a silly, silly thing.

Perhaps something that would have more long-term appeal to the excessively neurotic subgroup of extreme furries, then.  Unless they start putting little mints on the straw bedding?

Having met the obsessively neurotic subgroup of extreme furries…. I don’t see anyone catering to them. For one thing, they’re so socially crippled they generally don’t have much in the way of money.

Robin Bobcat - 18 November 2009 12:51 PM

Having met the obsessively neurotic subgroup of extreme furries…. I don’t see anyone catering to them. For one thing, they’re so socially crippled they generally don’t have much in the way of money.

Perhaps this guy will accept payment in form of alfalfa hay.

Oh, this is what you meant on Facebook when you accused me of stealing your link.

WELL I DIDN’T!! 

I’d probably do that, if only to run in the giant hamster wheel. Those things look like such fun…

Looks like too much work to me.