THE BRATWURST HOTEL

Looking for an unusual place to stay? How about the world’s first and only sausage-themed hotel. The Bratwurst Hotel in the small German town of Rittersbach has sausages on the menu, pictures of sausage on the wallpaper, sausage mobiles hanging from the ceiling, and a sausage-shaped pillow on your bed. There are coat racks that look like butcher’s knives and giant pigs on the frosted glass doors to the bathrooms. There’s sausage-shaped soap in the shower (* Hello!). All the male staff go bottomless (Just kidding!). Guests can take home souvenirs including canned minced sausage, and take a workshop in making personalized types of sausage using a range of meats and spices. The owner, Claus Boebel, is a fourth-generation butcher. Meat sales are down for small local butcher shops like his, due to competition from supermarkets, and he wants to show that small craftsman shops like his “can survive when you have clever ideas.” He says the Bratwurst Hotel has done brisk business since its opening in September.
* It’s packed like a can of Vienna sausages.
* “You can’t beat my meat,” Claus added.
* Sounds like his idea is a wiener.
* Look for his wife Patty at the front desk.
* When you work at the Sausage Hotel, every day is a grind.
* If you want to make reservations, google Bratwurst Hotel, and click the links.
* The place is nightmare fuel for your Freudian dreams.
* Be warned – their slogan is “We serve our guests.”
* A great hotel? It’s the wurst.