Leave it to Airbnb to come up with some supremely unique accommodations: now listed on their site is a bedroom submerged in a shark tank in the Aquarium de Paris, offering 360-degree views though transparent walls of sharks swimming by.
Anyone still scarred by Jaws may want to pass (duhnt duhnt duhnt duhnt duhnt duhnt), but otherwise, two shark lovers get to “sleep” (or at least try to) on a circular bed, while 35 sharks swim around the bedroom in the three million-liter and ten-meter deep aquarium. Might be a good time to leave your steak necklace or beef jerky at home.
The room is only available April 11–13, and Airbnb is hosting a contest for people to enter to win one of the three nights in these once-in-a-lifetime accommodations—and it’s for free. Don’t live in France? No worries, Airbnb is flying winners in from almost anywhere in the world. Sweet! Winners will also get to enjoy dinner in front of tank (outside the bedroom), plus a tour of the aquarium by a marine biologist, and world record-breaking freediver Fred Buyle will dance with the sharks for your viewing entertainment. Fun fact: the Aquarium de Paris was opened in 1867, the first in the world, and is right in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Photograph: Courtesy Airbnb
You have until 11:59PM CET on April 3 to enter to win, details here.
The Aquarium is hosting this Airbnb stunt in order to increase visibility for sharks, helping to show “how they live, why they’re so misunderstood, and their importance to the ocean’s ecosystem.” After the winners enjoy their overnight visits, the bedroom will live on as an observatory so biologists can study the behaviors of the sharks.