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It Is Now Possible to Rent the Entire Country of Liechtenstein for $70,000/Night

by Robert Quigley | 3:09 pm, April 14th, 2011

Renting cheap rooms from Airbnb‘s community? Old and busted. The new hotness, at least if you have a few tens of thousands to throw around: Renting villages or even an entire country.

Thanks to a partnership with Liechtenstein-based event production company Xnet, Airbnb is now offering to rent out villages in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland for $50,000-$65,000 per night. But high rollers will probably want to up their game and rent all of Liechtenstein, an independent nation with a population of 35,000. The price tag: $70,000 a night for a minimum of two nights. Here’s the listing.

What does that mean exactly? Will the Liechtensteiners throw off the yoke of oppression? It’s a little less drastic than it sounds.

A major component of renting a village or country is booking a large portion of the municipality’s available accommodations, but that is just the beginning. The possibilities for customizing the experience are almost endless — rename city streets and town squares, print your own temporary currencies, carve logos or names into the snow on the mountainside — and that is just the tip of the iceberg. The mayors and marching bands can welcome you with a custom medieval festival and present you the key to the city, or perhaps a wine tasting event at a Prince’s estate followed by a fireworks show is more your style.

Those are just a few examples of what you get when you rent a village or country, we didn’t even touch on the castles, fortresses, sports stadiums, and horseback riding yet

One very compelling reason to do this: To gloat over Snoop Dogg, who unsuccessfully tried to rent Liechtenstein last year.

(Airbnb via TNW)

  • Brent

    The most apparent use I can think of is filming a movie or undermining a filming. Imagine that, say one company needs summer in Liechtenstein filming and have only a two week window when a rival company conveniently “rents” the country during half or more of that period.

  • Anonymous

    Or you could just, you know, “be Richard Branson.”

  • Anonymous

    Or you could just, you know, “be Richard Branson.”

  • Anonymous

    Or you could just, you know, “be Richard Branson.”

  • Pattycap11

    just what the world needs, something new that rich people can do to feed their egos.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, we do. Before the rental, rich person has the money. After the rental, Liechtenstein has the money. We need as many ways of parting rich people from their money as we can think of since the Republicans won’t less us raise their taxes. 

  • Anonymous

    I think I can come up with enough to rent it for a month….


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