For Dexter fans or those enamored with death and all that is creepy, you can soon sleep in a morgue. A Tasmanian entrepreneur is planning to turn a former morgue into a hotel.
The morgue hotel won't come with comfy accommodations like most hotels that strive to make their guests comfortable. This new hotel will keep the old morgue intact and instead of sleeping on plush bedding, guests will sleep on the terrazzo stone slabs and wooden head rests that were used to lay dead bodies on, according to The Herald Sun.
"It's still got its terrazzo slabs, and it's still got its pull-out fridge, it's a beautiful thing," owner Hayden Pearce said, according to News24.
Those who are interested may include zombie and vampire fans, fans of crime shows, those who don't mind being a bit scared and those who look for unusual adventures. After all, not everyone can say that they slept in a morgue, at least, no one with a heartbeat.
"We're hoping to attract the unusual," owner Hayden Pearce told ABC news. "I don't believe there is another morgue in the world to be offered as accommodation."
The morgue in Willow Court of Tasmania state hasn't been used for over a decade. In addition to a morgue, the area was once used as a mental hospital that was created during the colonial-era.
Pearce, an antiques dealer, bought seven acres of the land which contain six buildings. He has been gradually restoring the area, including the morgue. He already turned the asylum into a motel, a Victorian-era ward into an antiques shop and a nurses' area into a specialty shop.
Some of the areas are believed to be haunted, which adds onto the thrill of staying and visiting the area.
"You have the odd person who freaks out when they sort of walk in the door and run off but the majority are pretty good," Pearce told News24.
Before Pearce bought the land, the previous owner planned to turn it into an ice cream parlor and a daycare center. Pearce thinks the morgue hotel idea may attract certain travelers.
The hotel will only have four rooms.
"We'll be looking at putting a double bed in one of the rooms and then we have three slabs and two pull-out fridges which could be used," he said.
Pearce plans to use the pull out fridge beds as bunk beds. The main suite of the hotel will feature a dissection table.
Surgical and dissection instruments will be places around the room to make it look even more authentic.
Pearce plans to have the morgue hotel open by 2013 and hopes to start booking rooms soon.
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