There’s a reason why Will Smith keeps popping up at hotels in Miami Beach. He says Miami is the City for him. What he means is that he thinks there’s one city somewhere on the planet for everyone, where you feel at home. 

Smith explained his theory to the the Miami Herald when he was there to promote his new film Seven Pounds. ”I have a lot of strange theories,” Smith said about his love for Miami, “and this is one of them: I believe cities have emotional patterns, in the same way human beings have emotional patterns. There’s a specific place on Earth for every single person, where you’re going to feel happier, healthier, more in love, need less rest, and your skin is going to look better. You just have to find the city that matches your particular emotional pattern.”  

Well, now we know where Will Smith’s emotional pattern leads to - coke snorting hedonists, party hounds and beach bums. Take your pick…

Let’s move from hopped out movie stars with delusions of grandeur to a 36 year old Swedish entrepreuner from Uppsala who managed to set up a fully functional hostel inside a grounded jumbo jet.

The Jumbo Hostel, set up inside a mothballed Boeing 747 at Stockholm-Arlanda airport, has 25 rooms. Amenities include bunk beds, overhead luggage compartments and flat-screen televisions, reception area and café are at the front of the jet and toilets and showers at the rear. $46 (300 SEK) per room per night. The cockpit, though, will cost several thousand SEK per night.

The Boeing’s upper deck is a conference room, and the cockpit a wedding suite.  And Oscar Diös has grand plans to expand his winged hostel, by adding more rooms in the engine bays beneath the wings.

Considering that he’s already ot 200 bookings, its a definite possibility that you might soon be seeing Dios Jumbo hostels at airports all over the world. Richard Branson must be going green with envy…

Photo courtesy Jumbo Hostel, Stockholm, Sweden.

Posted on January 4th, 2009 by Thomas
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