No one has ever woken up alive in Airbnb’s latest rental offer, but then again, no one has ever spent the night alongside six million dead Parisians in the city?s Catacombs.
For Halloween, the home rental website is offering brave travellers a night in the sprawling tunnels filled with skulls and bones that is one of Paris?s most popular ? and ghoulish ? attractions, Agence France-Presse reports.
The competition launched on the website offers two people a night in the Catacombs on October 31, with a ?real bed?, dinner with private concert and breakfast.
?Before bedtime, a storyteller will have you spellbound with fascinating tales from the catacombs, guaranteed to produce nightmares. Finally, enjoy dawn with the dead, as you become the only living person ever to wake up in the Paris catacombs,? reads the listing.
Town hall sources said the California-based Airbnb paid up to 350,000 euros to privatise the tunnels.
The House Rules section on Airbnb, which allows property dwellers and owners to rent a room or entire home, warns guests to ?respect the Catacombs as you would your own grave?.
Airbnb, which was launched in 2008 and now has some 40 million users worldwide, recently agreed to pay a tourist tax to Paris from each of its bookings in the city.
The website has raised the ire of traditional hotel chains which see it as a rival that flouts tax laws.
The Paris town hall said the privatisation of the Catacombs would ?boost capital by finding new sources of revenue (and allow for) the preservation of this heritage site.?
Airbnb?s spooky Parisian offer
