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Sleep in a Beer Can

Posted by Janelle Nanos on May 12, 2010
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Photo: Beer Can HotelOur former colleague Emily Haile, who blogs at the Travel Telegraph, recently wrote a piece in Draft Magazine about Denmark’s Skanderborg Music Festival, or Smukfest. Like many festivals, it’s an annual outdoor concert where partygoers can listen to acts like Eric Clapton, Lenny Kravitz, Beck, Björk, and Green Day, all of whom have performed there in the past. The one major difference? After a full day of listening to music, you can rest up in a huge beer can-shaped aluminum pod. She explains:

In lieu of living in a tent, some lucky attendees sleep in one of 114, two-story aluminum Royal Unibrew beer cans, enlarged to 12.5 feet high.

Covered in golden, bubbly wallpaper and furnished entirely by Ikea, the first floor features a small living area and a minibar that’s replenished each day. When the dweller’s ready to turn in, he climbs the ladder to a circular double bed and pops the skylight.

The CanSleep units are arranged in communities of six-packs, and are rented for about $145 each night. The Smukfest concert series will run from August 4-8 this summer. (Check here for the full schedule.)

[Travel Telegraph]
[Draft Magazine]

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  1. blog dude
    May 12, 2010, 3:53 pm

    I don’t drink beer, but I would like to sleep in a beer can.

  2. tekwriter
    May 12, 2010, 5:52 pm

    I’ve never slept IN a beer can, but I’ve slept beside a few in my day!

  3. JackieT
    May 12, 2010, 9:26 pm

    OMG-That looks like a ton of fun! I’m planning a vacation around that festival one of these days. Thanks for the info.

  4. Aparana Chauhan
    May 13, 2010, 3:19 am

    On your tour to Skanderborg Music festival, enjoy the exotic surrounding – the forested area of Jutland and the hitting rhythmic vibes coming from five different stages. The festival presents to you both local Danish and top international brands along with the skilled artists within the field of hard core rock and classical dance music

  5. Travel India
    May 13, 2010, 6:04 am

    Skanderborg Music Festival is an annual musical that is celebrated on the second weekend of August in the most beautiful beach sight of Denmark.

  6. Bacon Boy
    May 13, 2010, 6:07 am

    Wonderful – I can imagine the number of time you will hear the joke pronunciation of bacon or beercan during the festival

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  8. Benny T
    March 2, 2011, 8:35 pm

    I had a friend who went to the last Smukfest and he stayed in one of those beer can things. He showed us some pictures he took of his and I have to say it look really comfortable and clean.
    Looks really funny though…sleeping in a beer can! I love it! I wonder if you could get a Carrier Heat Pump in it?

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