Treasures of our Town
Embark on an exhilarating voyage through the heart of America's captivating towns and cities with the enthralling travel podcast, "Treasures of our Town." Join your experienced hosts, Craig (Seemyshell) and Joshua (Geocaching Vlogger), as they unveil the hidden gems and extraordinary treasures that lie beyond the surface.
Delve into a world of cultural exploration as our hosts guide you through historical sites, natural splendours, and extraordinary local experiences. All their travels are guided by their love of outdoor games like Geocaching and Munzee. Whether you're a seasoned globetrotter or a curious beginner, our captivating city tours and off-the-beaten-path destinations will ignite your wanderlust and leave you inspired.
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Treasures of our Town
Top 10 Weird, Unique and Strange AirBnB Stays Across the USA (Under $200)
Ever wondered how spending a night in a missile bunker or a decommissioned helicopter might spice up your travels? This week, we embark on a journey through some of the most unique, quirky, and photogenic Airbnbs across the USA. From 1980s and 1990s-themed living rooms perfect for your next TikTok video to whimsical stays like a UFO suite in Washington, we promise you'll be inspired to add some fun and creativity to your next getaway. All stays are in USA, and under $200 a night, Listed on AirBnB as of August 25th, 2024
- Livingston Junction Caboose - Link
- Air Castle Treehouse - Link
- Spaceship Destination!- Link
- Big Idaho Potato Hotel 🥔- Link
- The Last Blockbuster- Link
- Get to the Chopper - Link
- The Band Wagon - LINK
- Rondavous Land Yacht - LINK
- Dome Sweet Dome - LINK
- The Hobbit House- Link
And they opened it up to locals to say and they turned it into like a 1990s slash 1980s like living room and you have a free run. You know free reign at the snacks and the store and there's a couch and you can walk up through the store and find a movie. Do you love to travel? Do you love to travel? Do you love road trips? Do you love finding hidden treasures in towns all over the USA? Hi, I'm Joshua.
Speaker 2:And I'm Craig. Welcome to Treasures of Our Town. It's the podcast that explores the unique and charming towns scattered throughout the United States.
Speaker 1:Guided by our love for location-based games like geocaching, join us as we venture into some of the country's most intriguing destinations, uncovering hidden gems and local secrets along the way.
Speaker 2:On today's episode, we're not going to towns. No, we're going to do 10 strange, weird, quirky and unique Airbnbs. Josh, we all know you love your Airbnbs, mate, so this is your idea. You come up with this and you thought I'm going to do some research, mate.
Speaker 1:Yes, I love a good Airbnb, especially an Airbnb that has a hair dryer in it.
Speaker 2:Oh, it has to have it Fully equipped and the correct soap as well, not using dish soap for hand soap, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've experienced some not so great, not so unique airbnbs, but we're going on the positive side and we're going to talk about airbnbs because there's really a lot of cool things to explore. It's so fun when you can add a little bit of I don't know uniqueness fun to your accommodations yes, exactly right, and we're not talking about josh, we're not talking about, just like you know.
Speaker 2:Oh, this one has to have a hairdryer have. So this, we're talking unique, quirky places that would be best for, like, photo shoot. Airbnb's. Yeah, doing your tiktok? Airbnb's yes and just to let everyone know, this is not sponsored by airbnb in any way. This is just you and me having a chat after doing some research.
Speaker 1:So airbnb would be a fantastic sponsor, however absolutely absolutely I'll take some of those uh airbnb I'll take some airbnb free stays credits exactly yeah, I didn't even have to give us cash. I work for Cheats, credits, credits.
Speaker 2:It costs them nothing for credits. Anyway, Josh, speaking of good and bad and everything else as well, let's get into the delays and upgrades.
Speaker 1:But we had some fan mail. Are we going to do the fan mail first?
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, we can do fan mail. I didn't even look at the show notes. That's my issue. See, there you go. Yes, we do have fan mail and we've said before Josh, we do get fan mail now through the actual link in the podcast themselves. This one was from St George in Utah and they said I hope Joshua went back and got a refund for the $2 he paid to wash those floor mats. Did he have? He didn't actually have the floor mats, so did you get the $2 back?
Speaker 1:I did not.
Speaker 2:No I did not.
Speaker 1:But when I told that story I did go back and they gave me a couple of free car washes, which was actually more value than the two dollars that I paid for the mats that a didn't exist or b were taken or c were in a different timeline, where I never had floor mats in my car.
Speaker 2:That's still. It's still. Really. I'm bemused by it all and yet I'm not even in your shoes. I'm just thinking about it and think to myself well, because I know, if I have, I've got floor mats, you see. So I know I've got floor mats. I've actually got two floor mats.
Speaker 1:Are you sure? Are you sure you have floor mats?
Speaker 2:I've decked out my car as a camper, so I know exactly what's in my car right now. Just saying so, and and speaking of which, for me that's going to be leading to my upgrade, josh, because my upgrade at the moment is my car is booked in, uh, this week to be fixed, to have a brand new entire engine, rebuilt, engine placed into Stu that's my car's name, by the way, is Stu? So there you go.
Speaker 1:I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 2:That's one of many of my upgrades.
Speaker 1:Josh, oh, there's more.
Speaker 2:Well, if you haven't known yet, if you just listen to this podcast alone, then that's all well and good, but there's other podcasts out there as well.
Speaker 1:There are. There are other podcasts than ours.
Speaker 2:There is, there is, and so I'm a co-host here with you. I'm a co-host on the Munzee channel with Rob as well. I am now Josh, a co-host on the GCPC, the geocaching podcast. There you go, wow.
Speaker 1:With Scott Burks and Chaz. So, yeah, this is so. Yeah, this is like a full-time job for you. Podcast host, but no, with no payment. It's a wow, this is a big volunteer. Yeah, hobby, make sure you put it on your linkedin.
Speaker 2:Podcast host extraordinaire I don't even have a linkedin mate. What are you talking about? So, anyway? So, yeah, that's my, that's my main two upgrades. Uh, for for this week, mate. What are your upgrades before?
Speaker 1:well, I want to talk about your upgrades a little bit more. I saw some pictures, pictures, and you talked about it before. Not only are you getting a new engine, but you've decked out the back of you got like a kitchenette and you got some storage and, yeah, this is exciting and you're gonna hit the road soon, right, you're going down to texas, is that right? Exactly, exactly. So I hit the road soon, right, you're going down to Texas, is that right?
Speaker 2:Exactly exactly. So I hit the road on the 8th of September and I'm on the road for five weeks. This time I do a round trip all the way through into Texas for the big Munzee events in Texas themselves, and then on the way back on the eastbound trip, I actually stop off in Rome, georgia, for going caching, my first and obviously last going caching event.
Speaker 1:So there you go which is a mega geocaching event, if you don't know.
Speaker 2:So yeah, there you go. So that's my trip and, yes, I have decked out my car. There will be a full car run through. What do you call it? Video Video, yeah, video, but not tutorial. What do they call?
Speaker 1:those ones Video.
Speaker 2:Video, yeah, video, but not tutorial. What do they call those ones? Oh, I can't think of it now. What's the word? My brain is fried.
Speaker 1:Tour, tour, tour.
Speaker 2:That's it, yeah, a full car tour of my car coming out on my other YouTube channel, the Aussie in America one, because that's been dormant for a little while. So that needs some love. And so, yeah, as you said, I've got a kitchen. Now Pull that kitchen out the back. I've got an actual fridge like a refrigerator in there that's off, a solar panel now as well, storage bedding. I've even got a podcast set up and a desk. Oh my gosh, oh, yes, oh yes. So there you go. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah, well, craig, it's all good. That's amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Well, craig, while you hit the road in your car this week, can you believe it? I'm going somewhere where I've never gone before.
Speaker 2:What to Australia?
Speaker 1:I haven't gone to Australia but I'd love to someday. No, I'm going to Venice, Italy. What?
Speaker 2:Venice, as in the boats and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did I tell you this no.
Speaker 2:Have we had this?
Speaker 1:conversation. No, oh my gosh, you're just finding out right now. I love this yeah, on the podcast. I'm going to Venice on Wednesday.
Speaker 2:For how long?
Speaker 1:I'll be in Venice for a long weekend, from Thursday to Sunday. Right and get this, it's not even a geocaching trip.
Speaker 2:What Can you believe it? Are you going with your wife Tammy oh?
Speaker 1:that's a no, I know it's bad. It's bad. We've had a conversation, everything's fine. It's okay. She doesn't listen to this podcast, so she won't know. I promised her that we would go someday together. No, it's a guy's weekend. A guy's weekend in what? Venice, wow, with my friend, daniel fleeker. If you watch my videos?
Speaker 1:yes, I know daniel, he. He reached out to me several months ago. He was josh, speaking of the airbnbs. He goes. I rented an air Airbnb castle in Venice Wow, and he goes. I'm inviting nine of my best friends and Josh, you were one of my best friends, Can you come to Venice for a weekend? I was like Daniel, Daniel, this guy he's funny. I said, Daniel, you know a trip from Venice for you? He's from Germany. Yeah, it's like me going to Chicago for a weekend.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was going to say yeah it's like or Vegas Vegas.
Speaker 1:It's like yeah, no big deal, right? No big deal, no. For me this is a big trip to go to Venice from Minnesota.
Speaker 2:What's travel like in terms of hours on planes and stuff it? What's travel like in terms of?
Speaker 1:hours on planes and stuff. It's similar to what Germany is. It's probably like if I flew directly there, which I'm not it's probably about nine hours.
Speaker 2:Well, if that's the case, then you're going to have to do what we've said before on this previous episode You're going to have to raw dog it mate, just raw. No way, no way.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I asked Daniel. I was like what are we going to do in Venice? He goes, we're going to because we're not geocaching.
Speaker 2:No, You'll find one or two. Oh, I will geocache you have to.
Speaker 1:I got to get that souvenir Exactly. But he goes, we're going to eat meat and drink wine I was like sounds great.
Speaker 2:Thumbs up, I'm all in and we're gonna ride on boats, yeah, and then craig, then craig.
Speaker 1:I am going to germany to uh do some uh video work for him in hanover right after all the way back yeah, I'll be gone a week, so that's to pay for the trip there you go.
Speaker 2:there you mate, well done. Well, you're going to have to introduce me to Daniel, just saying he sounds like a very nice, gracious sort of guy. He is a very funny guy too, josh.
Speaker 2:If people don't know who Daniel Flieger is. Just watch any of Josh's videos and you'll see him, especially all the Germany tour ones, the cash tours that Daniel puts on. He is a great guy, an extremely funny guy. Some people don't know because some of these puns, some of these jokes, land on the cutting room floor from the videos. Because if I was to put all of them in there, Josh, your videos would go for half an hour and they're inappropriate.
Speaker 1:They're inappropriate sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is true, they're inappropriate sometimes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is true, they're a guy For my videos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly For my videos Not children-friendly, for instance. But yeah, no, he is a great guy. So, yeah, go watch Josh's videos and you'll see more about him. So, mate, I'm very, very proud, but I'm very happy for you for going to Venice there, you go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's your delay.
Speaker 2:Well, I was going to say so, there's the ups. Now, what are the downs? So my delays? I don't really have any when I was trying to think about it.
Speaker 1:I know that's good, Life's good man.
Speaker 2:That's good. That's good. The only real ones I can think about, josh, is that I've put out a couple more videos, like over the last couple of days sorry, the last couple of weeks of my trips around. So I did one when I went geocaching with a mate of mine in California and we did a brilliant multicache that was dedicated to a lovely person who unfortunately has passed away last year. It's a six-stage multicache in a business location, nursery, and every stage is a gadget cache on its own and the view numbers, josh, just they're just not up there. I don't know what's with youtube, whatever as well, and so it's just. It's just sad that people aren't seeing this sort of uh, you know these sort of caches that they can recreate themselves to some degree for their own. You know areas and communities, so yeah, there you go my I've seen that video.
Speaker 1:It's very good by the. It'll be in the show notes. Yeah, it's just. It's the nature of just where YouTube is right now. In the video ecosystem, short form is king right now. Yeah, but mark my words, it won't be that way forever. Yeah, and I think at some point whether it's five years, ten years I bet you a long-form video will make a comeback. That's my prediction.
Speaker 2:I saw a hat the other day and I was going to buy it, and it's a videographer's hat obviously, because it says make video horizontal again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw that. I've seen that before.
Speaker 2:I love that hat Make video horizontal again. So there you go, and here's the thing.
Speaker 1:I just and this is for anybody that creates video create what you enjoy making. Yes, like, if you enjoy making 20-minute videos, make a 20-minute video. If you enjoy making shorts, short videos, do that. Just do what you like, because then if you enjoy it, then you're going to probably be more likely to keep doing it.
Speaker 2:And at the same time Josh, you need to think about this as well and one of our good friends, minnesota boy Tim, a proud patron as well of the show. His videos are out there. He does them, though, as well because he's got grandkids, and so the joy he has watching his grandkids watch him on TV is just amazing and he's proud to share that with us sometimes and I feel really blessed by that. And it's just amazing, I mean, he's and he's proud to share that with us sometimes and I feel really blessed by that. And, um, yeah, and it's, it's cute, it's gorgeous. And you think about it longer. When he's long gone and it's gonna happen to all of us and his kids, his grandkids are older, they're gonna be able to say, look, this was my grandfather back in the day you know, and and just that's so cool.
Speaker 2:we don't have that. You don't have that of your grandfather, I don't have it of mine, no.
Speaker 1:I wish I did.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and so I think that's what's going to happen in future generations. So, yeah, make videos themselves if that's what you want to do, and don't worry about the views and stuff and more worry about what it's going to do and the legacy like Tim, for instance, for his grandkids.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. I'm just waiting for my future grandkids to be like wow, grandpa went to Italy without grandma Tammy, what a jerk.
Speaker 2:I know Grandma Tammy is still alive, so let's go and ask her about it and poke the bear. They'll be like. Oh what. My grandfather was obsessed with finding these boxes in the woods.
Speaker 1:What the?
Speaker 2:heck Gosh. Anyway, we're starting to ramble, josh. What about your delays, mate? What have you been doing today, Life's?
Speaker 1:been good, life's been good, not a lot of delays. And I want to make it very clear I absolutely love my day job. If I won the lottery, I would still do my day job, but August is day job.
Speaker 1:If I won the, lottery, I would still do my day job and but august is so busy as we're getting ready, we work at schools. We work at school so we're training new people. It's been. It's been a lot, a lot of work, yeah, and so we're. I'm excited for the school year to start, so things get more normal. But I've been just it. This is a very welcome break as I head to venice this week there we go, there we go.
Speaker 1:All right, mate we're 15 minutes into this episode already. That's okay. That's okay because we don't have a guest, it's just you and me. We haven't had an episode like this for a while, but just you and me, just the two of us. We can make it if I try. Just the two of us, yeah, just every time. Every time this has to be a song somewhere. So yeah, josh, we're going to talk. Just the two of us, yeah, just the two of us Every time. Just the two of us Every time.
Speaker 2:There has to be a song somewhere. So, josh, we're going to talk about Airbnbs. You and I have both researched this. Now disclaimer, you and I, we haven't stayed at these particular ones, and if we have stayed at one of these, we're going to obviously say that we stayed there as well. We do have links Ready for this. We'd have links to every airbnb we say in the show notes. So if you're listening to this, people, and you go, okay, you think of one or whatever, pause the episode and then go to the show notes, click on the link and then you can view it first as well, and then we'll talk about it obviously as well. We're going to do their best to describe these, josh, too.
Speaker 1:Yes, but, or but they can play along they can actually play along like they can be listening to this on uh on their phone or uh their laptop and they can click on and like look at these pictures. Because this is kind of yeah it's kind of this is a little bit visual, but yes, yeah, we're gonna do very, our very best to describe these. And boy craig, first, before we start. Boy was this one, because I was like I like if I were you and I had stew touring the country.
Speaker 1:I would, I would take this list, this you know we love our list, craig oh yeah, oh yeah, I would take this list and I it would. It would have check boxes and I would try to visit all 10 of these in one trip. It would be such an epic, hilarious, funny, visually stimulating and great trip.
Speaker 2:So now just a disclaimer these are all are in the us, so there's no other countries at all. This is all us only based. We did we, we had that premise there in the beginning.
Speaker 1:Plus josh, they are all under 200 a night yes, that was our premise we had to have they have to be us and they have to be under two hundred dollars a night, so you know they're affordable for everyone yeah, and the reason we did that is because, like there's let's be real, there's some extravagant like mansions and like insane mansions, like in like a thousand dollars, two thousand dollars a night. We could, we could have done a different show, doing the luxury, yes and some of these.
Speaker 2:Some of these ones are for two people only, like there are one bedroom place, so two people max, that's it. Others we've got like a six or eight people can actually uh, you know stay at the airbnb.
Speaker 1:So there's a variety of places, a variety but can I just say one one of them that I found that was really unique, that was really expensive before we start this is not.
Speaker 2:This is not a part of our list.
Speaker 1:No, it's not a list, because we're gonna do 10. I don't know if you found this one, but did you find the in roswell, new mexico, the underground missile bunker?
Speaker 2:no, I didn't see that one because I had my filters for under 200, so of course I didn't see that one because I had my filters for under 200, so of course I didn't see that one there's an underground missile bunker where you go underground there there's a little like silo area where the missile what?
Speaker 1:there's no missile there anymore, yeah, and there's like a. It's just like something out of like, wow, you know the 50s, where like if this thing got, if america got bombed or whatever, that you had a full like living room down there and like it was expensive, but underground missile bunker looking up in new roswell, new mexico and and this is that.
Speaker 2:That's the sort of thing we're going to talk about, josh as well, is those crazy type of airbnbs that people like to stay at. They want to take photos. They want to say look, guess where I stayed, for instance, as well. Do you want to start or do you want me? To go first, you can start?
Speaker 1:Sure, I'll start. So the first place we're going to go is Eureka Springs, arkansas. Okay, eureka Springs, arkansas. Now, we didn't have time to say exactly where those are, so maybe, craig, we can go back and forth, do a little map questing, or if you're playing at home, I'm not exactly sure where Eureka Springs, arkansas is. Yep, but this is called the Livingston Junction Caboose. Oh, and it is exactly what you think it is. It is a real, probably formally used red caboose From like a train caboose, from a train caboose, and you look inside of it and it almost looks like it's long, of course, so it's almost very like RV-ish, oh yeah, you know, like full kitchen, bus-like Shower, Mm-hmm, all the, but it's, it's a real caboose. And they say in the description it says you'll love this unique and romantic escape I think if I take tammy, to the caboose.
Speaker 1:She'd be like wow, this is a romantic escape. However, you know what makes it probably the most romantic? What's that? Right outside the caboose there's a big deck yeah and sitting on that deck oh, craig you. And I love this, this podcast was birthed in this there is a private hot tub, wow I love an airbnb with a hot tub oh yeah, even even though there's risk for you know probably some sort of diseases, but I've never had any problems chlor you're just putting up with your head underwater, it's chlorinated and stuff too.
Speaker 2:So just to let people know, in terms of the exact location map wise, we're talking the uh, the northwestern side, like almost the northwestern corner of arkansas, up that way. Okay, oh yeah, yeah, that's where it is. So there you go, it's in a very secluded, beautiful wooded area.
Speaker 1:The caboose is I mean, it's not ugly caboose, like it's not nicely painted yes, there's a red yes, it's red. There is a. There's a grill on the porch and it's. It looks like secluded in a wooded area. Yes, with a hammock in the back.
Speaker 2:It just looks absolutely lovely and if you're listening along as well, because obviously I've got the pictures up, because I've got the links um, yeah, you walk through this and now we we're talking about the old school trains. Now, josh, you and I and tim, we went on an old school train, um to the, the grand canyon yes, and similar thing here whereby you some of the things from that old school train tram. You know, caboose is still there, so you've got to walk through this area, for instance, that's thinner than other areas, like a little walkway, and then instead of having just, uh, you know nothing there, they've actually got like um seating up atop, so you go up like a couple of steps to some seating area. Um, they've still got the old rail, some of the old rail itself that's inside with like old telephones and that sort of thing too.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, there you go, there you go, and then a couple more statistics, if you're interested Not bad, $175 a night.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Two guests. It's a caboose, one bed you're sharing. So if we go, craig, we're sharing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those bed you're sharing. So if we go craig we're sharing. Yeah, those are pillows, those are pillows that's my man boobs.
Speaker 1:Anyway, keep moving on. One one bath, it's a real caboose. Yeah, that's, that's my first one that's all.
Speaker 2:I like it, I like it. And again, I'm just looking at the photos. Even in the bathroom, josh, they've got the old school bathroom toilet roll holder and it's still got the sticker on it that says please do not flush toilet while train is moving. So there you go. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, yeah, you've got to love the old school stickers on there too.
Speaker 1:You've got to love the little extra touches. A lot of these have some just extra touches inside that make it great.
Speaker 2:Exactly All right, that's your number one. I Exactly All right, that's your number one. I'm going to move on to mine. Mine, I'm going to say it with an accent. Are you ready for this? It is get to the chopper, get to the chopper, get to the chopper. That's not a tumor, but that's what it is, and it is exactly what it says. It is get to the chopper. It is an actual helicopter, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Not just small little stingy helicopters. No, this is the big army helicopters, that troop carrier type helicopters, the one with the blade at the front and the blade at the back. It's very similar to the caboose, whereby it's sitting there on the ground with an outdoor area, etc as well. This is located, of course. Of course this has to be located in brooksville, florida, which is directly west from Orlando, about 30 minutes west of Orlando in Florida. $176 a night, josh. You can stay in this helicopter for $167 a night. It can have up to six guests. There's four bedrooms, one bathroom. It is big, it is big.
Speaker 1:It's a Chinook, a Chinook, yeah, that's it. Yeah, people know it is big, it is big.
Speaker 2:It's a Chinook. A Chinook yeah people know.
Speaker 1:Did you say that already?
Speaker 2:No, I just said army helicopter. I didn't know that word.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so again, you can't see it Like you think. A typical helicopter. You're like nobody's sleeping in that little thing. No, this thing is like it's a Chinook. Look up Chinook, look Chinook.
Speaker 2:Look up the Chinook and it even says it's a CH-47D helicopter. So it even has a serial number. It's decommissioned and it's still got a serial number on there from the actual army, josh. So there you go, a real, repurposed Chinook helicopter. It is pet-friendly as well, but you must get a pre-approval for this one. But what I love the most about this inside. So you go inside itself and you think to yourself okay, you go inside a building and it's just got the perspex. Well, not perspex, it's got drywall walls and stuff. No, this has still got the interior components of all the walls. And what they've done is they've taken some of the metal plates away from inside the walls and put a perspex, like a see-through perspex, on the inside of the walls and put a perspex like a see-through perspex on the inside of the walls. Therefore, you can see the inner workings in between the walls themselves. And we're talking about the cabling for it, the electrical for it. You know some of the other working parts, josh, it still has the cockpit, you can sit in the cockpit.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at it right now. This is amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's mine.
Speaker 1:They've done such a good job to really make it Still a helicopter and it's like inside, outside it's a little rough. It looks like it's been through some Stuff. Oh my gosh, it's the first time I think I've sworn on this podcast.
Speaker 2:There you go that's okay.
Speaker 1:We're all adults here, right?
Speaker 2:exactly, I can do a beep, it's all right. Okay, yeah, we should do a beep.
Speaker 1:Um yeah, it's rough on the outside, but the inside is nice yes, while maintaining and like the. Have you seen the kitchen? It's like a stainless steel kitchen with like pots hanging like.
Speaker 2:It's like surprisingly classy yeah, exactly, and on the outside though, josh, it still is like gated in. So you've got a little um fenced in area so you can actually have. I said before about the pets and stuff as well. You can have your dog here too, but you've got games outside. You got that. What do you call it? The shuffleboard? No, the, the Chuck, the Beanbag things that you have here in America. I can't even remember.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cornhole, cornhole.
Speaker 2:It's got Cornhole. It's got a fully enclosed bar area on the outside as well, so you can sit there have your drinks. Can you imagine the photo opportunities you can have at a place like?
Speaker 1:this. Oh my gosh, this looks like a good party spot. We're not condoning like partying in Airbnbs, but hey, I've hosted a party in an Airbnb. It's just great.
Speaker 2:Exactly right. Parties don't have to be the rowdy party. We have adult parties whereby we just actually enjoy a few beers and have a chat, and this does have up to six guests and two bedrooms separate bedrooms. So you can even be with two couples, have a nice two-couple evening there as well. So there you go, that's a good one, Craig. That's mine. You like that one? I thought you would. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1:All it needed was a hot tub, and it would have been perfect.
Speaker 2:I know it is missing a hot tub, so if you own the chopper and you're listening to this, get a hot tub there you go, but then the price will go up Exactly, it'll be over $200 if it has a hot tub, that's for sure. This is true, this is true. All right, you're number two, mate. You're number two.
Speaker 1:We're going to Texas. Oh, I'm going to probably murder the name of this town. Yeah, you are late. Ladonia, ladonia, ladonia, ladonia ladonia ladonia, ladonia, let's call the whole thing off.
Speaker 2:Ladonia texas that josh is uh northeast of dallas, so just everyone's yeah, in that sort of top top corner there. So yeah, there you go Northeast of Dallas.
Speaker 1:We're looking at the Air Castle Treehouse. What the Air Castle Treehouse? Now? This is going to be a tough one to explain, but when I saw the pictures of this I was like, oh my gosh. Now it's kind of a trend, Craig, to have tree houses on airbnb. There's a lot of tree houses out there, like people like literally build on their property these tree houses. But the thing about this tree house is that was built out of, I believe, four shipping containers. Do you know what I mean by shipping containers?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, I know shipping containers. We have them in australia as well.
Speaker 1:They go all over the world yeah, you, I think people can ship stuff in boats yes, they ship them maybe trucks and maybe even planes, I don't know and they're huge Shipping containers. It's just like a huge, gigantic rectangular box. Yeah, and so what they did with these shipping containers is that they stacked them on top of each other, okay, and made this sort of like tree house. This thing, craig, is like six stories tall it's so tall. Are you looking at the pictures?
Speaker 2:of it. I am now yeah, of course, of course, yeah, six stories tall it's like six stories tall made out of these shipping containers.
Speaker 1:There's's like different steps and, I'm sure, ladders to get all the way up at the top. The top is there's like this it's in a very like wooded tree area and so when you're on the very top of the six story stacked shipping containers, you get like this You're above the canopy of trees, oh, and it's just like. If you look towards the very last few pictures, you can just see you're literally in the treetops above and there's a beautiful seating area up there and there's spiral staircases that go all the way up to the top and it looks like it's in the middle of nowhere, just like a beautiful nature area. And the inside of these shipping containers it's like it's, it's gorgeous, like wood, like they've furnished the inside.
Speaker 2:Just really have an amazing way, yeah so just to just to reiterate, josh as well, because you don't know obviously much about shipping containers this is six stories high, okay, we're talking six stories high, but not, it's not six shipping containers, no, it's only three shipping containers. What? This is six stories high, okay, we're talking six stories high, but it's not six shipping containers, no, it's only three shipping containers. What they've done is they've done two of the shipping containers on their ends, you see.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, so they're on their ends and then they're pointing all the way up to the top, so you've got two side-by-side on their ends and then you have one by itself up the top. That's actually like in lengthways, so it's it's like a big uh l shape or corner shape um that's how it's, that's how they've done it.
Speaker 2:So, exactly right, that's how they've done it, mate. So they've two on it. So it's really. I've only used three instead of six, um, but you still get that that depth there at the top with the uh, with the one going out lengthways, so that's pretty cool. I do see see Josh as well, because obviously you're up the top of a night, for instance, as well, and you're having a few beverages. There's a big outdoor area up the top, on the roof. You can actually look out and see all the animals, josh, and we're talking raccoons, we're talking squirrels, birds, that sort of thing, even pigs, josh, wild pigs are working around as well.
Speaker 1:So pigs are working around as well. So that's really cool, beautiful area. In one of the levels, I mean, it's like this. This is kind of like a mansion made out of shipping. It's like it's big. Yeah, because yeah, I believe it you can host um four guests. There's two bedrooms, two beds, one bath. But, craig, on one of the levels I'm looking, if you look almost to the, almost to the end of the pictures, but not quite there is a hot tub.
Speaker 2:Yes, I did see that it's like a hot tub area, like a screened-in porch area. Wow, but not just the hot tub, Josh as well. I see that there's a big fire pit downstairs on the ground. That's got a big cover over the top of the fire pit as well.
Speaker 1:That's really unique a covered fire pit yeah.
Speaker 2:That's really cool. That's really cool and we all, we all love a fire pit too, because I mean you myself, uh tim and uh rob as well when we stayed in and recently in arizona, we had a little gas fire pit out the front on the balcony and it's really lovely to sit out there overnight after a big day of geocaching and munzee, playing and whatever else as well, um, and sit out there and have a couple of beers. You know, around a around a nice fire.
Speaker 1:So there you go. So this is barely made the cut, craig, $199 a night. But for what you get if you see the picture you're like this totally is worth it, especially if you go in with another couple or something like that, which is really interesting. One more thing about this is that you need to sign a waiver to stay here.
Speaker 2:Oh, in case you fall off the top or what.
Speaker 1:Maybe there might be a danger factor and you have to be 12 or over. They don't want kids climbing up on this thing.
Speaker 2:That makes sense for insurance purposes, et cetera as well, Especially in the US when you guys love to sue everything that moves. But anyway, we'll move on. My next one, Josh, is the bandwagon. Get on the bandwagon.
Speaker 1:Do you know what?
Speaker 2:that means Get on the bandwagon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like a wagon filled with a band.
Speaker 2:It's like getting on the bandwagon means you're getting on with a trend.
Speaker 1:Yes, but I know what a bandwagon is.
Speaker 2:Yes, but this is actually a bandwagon, so these are actual wagons themselves.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, these are cool.
Speaker 2:I'm not talking just one wagon. Okay, people just think about this. You're sitting down and you're watching an old school western movie from Wyoming and they're traveling across Wyoming.
Speaker 1:On the Oregon Trail trail on the oregon trail. That's where they're traveling and they fjord the river and they die of dysentery.
Speaker 2:But yeah, they're actually like pulling these wagons along and the wagons themselves these. So these are the same wagons. From the outside they look exactly the same. They've got the wagon wheels um inside, though absolutely beautifully decked. So it's like. You heard of glamping josh. You've heard of surely?
Speaker 2:so it's the same sort of thing in terms of glamping, because you've only got that canvas outline, so it's like you don't have any indoor area. You've got it's indoors, but it's only canvas line, so it's not actually, you know, it's not a full hard wall, etc. Um, so these, there's several of these throughout this property. So you, there's not just one, um, you can set up to four guests for this as well. One, obviously they're only one bedrooms, but there's three beds, so obviously there's uh, there's the single beds as well. So if you're going to go with as a family, you can do it as family as well. One bathroom is also. But what I love as well, josh, this on the outdoor area, they've got like a fire pit again, like an actual, real fire pit. They've got these chairs. These chairs are wooden or timber chairs and the legs of these chairs, like they're rocking chairs, are made with wagon wheels.
Speaker 1:They're made with wagon wheels as they're rockier as well.
Speaker 2:So that's really cool, and $147 a night. $147 a night, that's all it is. So there you go.
Speaker 1:To back up a bit. This is Benton.
Speaker 2:Tennessee. I totally forgot where I was going to say. Yeah, exactly, Benton Tennessee.
Speaker 1:It's just outside Chattanooga.
Speaker 2:Tennessee yes, near the border of Georgia, that's right. That's the one.
Speaker 1:And it's cool because the covered wagons on the photos, the actual covered part of it, is a fabric and it's translucent and it's like at night, when it's all lit up, it looks like one of those hot air balloons at night.
Speaker 2:Yes, Like it's beautiful. That's a great aesthetic. Yes, yeah, absolutely gorgeous. And, as I said, there is more than one here in this particular property, so if you book one, then you can obviously book a couple, for instance, and stay with friends as well, so you can do it that way. So there you go, the bandwagon near the Ochi Riverside Farm. That's where it's on. So there you go, josh.
Speaker 1:What do you think of that one? That's great. You like that one. Yeah, it's a little bit too glamping for me.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:I don't think there, I didn't see like a bathroom.
Speaker 2:There is. There is, but it's a sort of shared common area. I didn't see a hairdryer. No, no.
Speaker 1:So far that one's on the bottom, so it's cool, don't get me wrong. It's cool, but it's on the bottom for me.
Speaker 2:so far just okay, is it? Another note as well. This may help some people with their minds. It is actually on a working farm too, so you can actually interact with farm animals by walking around the farm etc as well, so like chickens and horses and that sort of thing too. So there you go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like horses. There's a horse on the picture and the yeah page yeah, yeah, exactly, all right, there you go. Your next one your next we're going to bush prairie, washington. Look it up, craig, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I I am I am bush prairie, washington right now, and I zoom all the way out. It is, oh, just north of portland.
Speaker 1:So just north, literally just across the river from portland so southern washington, um, you know who lives close to there is the supernauts, anyway. Yes, that's a, that's a geocaching deep cut. Yeah, there you go, people, if you know the supernauts. Um, this one is called get this Spaceship Destination. Oh, is this one? Oh, my gosh, have you ever heard of the term mother-in-law suite?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have.
Speaker 1:Where people you know they have a property and they build a little place for their mother-in-law to stay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, at the back, slightly away from the home, far, far, far, far away. Yes, I know those very well. We have those in Australia too.
Speaker 1:Well, this is outside somebody's home. It's kind of a mother-in-law suite, but it's a mother-in-law suite, unlike you've ever seen before, because it is a UFO.
Speaker 2:It really is and it is a ufo. It really is, it's and it's a big, big ufo, holy cow. So, josh, I'm just thinking as well, we can go on this. We've talked about cabooses, we're talking about helicopters. Is this actually a real ufo? Like did they?
Speaker 1:get this from area 51 yes, it's real, I'm sure actually. No, I don't think it's real because it's too nice, like, clearly, this thing did not crash land. No, it's really nice. It's big, this thing. You could have up to six people sleep in this thing, which is kind of crazy. So, of course, if you're looking at the outside, it looks like just a big silver UFO yeah, a dome, big silver ufo dome. Yeah, um, the living area is just it, they.
Speaker 1:This is one of those ones where they've had all the little touches inside to really fully 100 commit to the bit, commit to, yeah, the the ufo. So it's like kind of, yes, there's like like little control panels everywhere. Um, there's a television but like there's like a stereo, but it's like little control panels. Everywhere there's a television but there's like a stereo, but the stereo is built into the wall. So it kind of looks like 1960s Star Trek. It's like retro 60s UFO. It's like if the aliens landed in the 60s. So, yeah, they've created these. It looks like these, just like fake little control panels with like these lights and all these stuff on the coffee tables.
Speaker 1:They're just. It's all space themed magazines. Craig r2d2 is in this thing.
Speaker 2:Of course r2d2 is yeah and not only r2d2, but there's the. There's the other one I can't even recall his name the big, tall one, will Robinson Danger, will Danger.
Speaker 1:Will Robinson. Yes, from Lost in Space. Lost in Space, that's the one, the robot from Lost in Space is in there.
Speaker 2:You've got alien heads themselves that are on the coffee table. But, josh, one of the things I saw in here as well I'm not sure if you saw it or not, but you would love, love, love this they've got an actual area with all costumes so you can dress up as chewbacker, you can dress up as you know, uh, your favorite ewok, and all them as well. So they've actually got costumes inside for you to dress up and theme yourself as well.
Speaker 1:So there you go yep, the whole place is just all ufo stuff and it looks like a beautiful area. It looks like it's out in the country, but again, this one is not super secluded because I think the homeowner lives right next door. But when I've had those experiences, I've stayed in tiny houses like this In Alaska. We stayed in a tiny house and those folks they don't bother you and often they take care of you um yeah, like when I did a a tiny house in alaska, the homeowner was right there in the regular house and they put fresh ground coffee in front of on our step every day. So it's kind of nice to have. That's nice to have the owners next year because in case you ever need anything, they're always there.
Speaker 2:the hospitality is really great and this thing at night it looks so cool, it lights up it's got led colored ufos, exactly if you go there with your family as well, josh, they've actually got a little outdoor area for for the kids to play in and it's like a little treehouse thing, but it's actually a looks like a spaceship. They've done it up like a spaceship as well, so you've got a spaceship for the kids outside too. So there you go it is, and it is in a snow area too. So if you go there in winter, it will be snow and it'll be all white.
Speaker 1:So this is very affordable 150 a night for gifts for six guests. Yeah but there's only one bath one bathroom, so that could be a problem. Yeah, yeah and obviously the.
Speaker 2:The others will be in pull-out beds as well. So there are pull-out bedrooms. You know, that's yeah, exactly, exactly, there you go, wow, wow, I like that one, josh. Thank you, um, and you think about it too, because at the moment, uh, or last month now after people listen to this was the uh, the geo challenge of the month was to find something space themed too. Remember we had all that going through. So there you go there you go all right, my next one, josh.
Speaker 2:My next one. We're going to go to terralinga, texas. I think it's called terralinga. Terralinga it's near the border of mexico, it's all the way down south, and this one here is called rendezvous land, yacht, land yacht and it's exactly what you think it is.
Speaker 2:So you think about the area. It's in texas, near the southern border itself, so there's nothing around, really, apart from cactus and sand, uh, no water whatsoever. And yet this josh is a fully, or used to be a fully functioning and working, uh, shipping boat. So, uh, like a, like a boat trawler. So you've got a trawler in the middle of the desert. Basically, yes, $120 a night, so that's a bargain. That's a bargain, but there's three guests, one bedroom and one bathroom.
Speaker 2:Now, as I said before, this is a full fishing boat parked in the middle of the desert. It's got a full steering wheel still at the helm, and you can even go upstairs on the deck up the top and you can pretend to be, you know, the captain fishing from up the top as well, fishing for what I don't know. Um, it's also got an outdoor fire pit, as we before we love these, uh, and with full, complete seating. But on the back behind there's an actual get this josh. There's a jet ski, an An actual, again, a real jet ski. But the jet ski themselves has turned into like a kid's toy. You know those rocking things on a big spring, yeah.
Speaker 2:This is a jet ski on a big spring out the back.
Speaker 1:It's funny, and it's also a great photo op too. I'm sure that's funny.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, absolutely. This is located in Tin Valley Retro Rentals, so it is actually located in a full area of other rentals. It's a big land area. You can have a number of different stays in this area, mostly RV type stays, so this is the only one that's really sort of unique, and there's also a camping area as well, in the same same area too. So there you go. What questions do you have about this one, josh well?
Speaker 1:I'm just looking. There's so many pictures on the I know on the site, but and like there's a lot of people having a good time, that's for sure, and it's just like filled with like photo ops, like there's like couples laying on the deck of the boat like they're out at sea. Yeah, um, and boy, if you're, if you're wanting to get some great stargazing, oh my gosh, there's no light pollution these photos are just gorgeous.
Speaker 1:This is out there. It looks like it's a part of like a property where there's other sort of just people like sleeping out there yeah, that's what it's part of the uh, the tin tin properties themselves.
Speaker 2:So there's other um camping areas out there. You can free camp as well, or you there's rv locations too, so you can actually camp out in your rv or you can rent an rv out there as well. So there's other sort of uh it's like an airbnb sort of area camping area that sort of thing.
Speaker 1:So there you go. It looks like it's close to big ben national park, which looks beautiful. Yes, yes, there's a people uh canoeing on a river in the park. This is yeah. If you like, the desert man, this is yeah oh yeah, gorgeous, maybe go, maybe go in february to this one yeah, now there is.
Speaker 2:There is not an indoor bathroom, the is outdoors. There's an outhouse sort of style bathroom Because, you think about it, this is in the middle of nowhere, josh, this is a desert. There's no sewage facilities and toilet facilities like that, so literally it would be a drop toilet and sort of in the outhouse.
Speaker 1:So there you go, hold on, I'm checking out the amenities and just making sure, checking for it, I don't. Oh boy, oh boy, craig. What, what, what? No hair dryers listed oh, of course not.
Speaker 2:Is that really there's? No wi-fi no wi-fi, no tv, no washer, no dryer.
Speaker 1:No, no, it's pretty much gilligan's island out there. People exactly.
Speaker 2:But josh 120 a night. What can you expect for 120 a night? No, it's pretty much gilligan's island out there. People exactly. But josh 120 a night. What can you expect for 120 a night?
Speaker 2:so it's glamping but I'd say taking glamping up a next level from the covered wagon, yes, yeah, well, yeah, because it's not really, because I think, personally, the covered wagon themselves, it's more of a nicer area, an area more people would stay. This one here is more camping than glamping, you know what I mean. This is more of the rugged sort of side of things. So there you go. So that's my rendezvous land, and it's called rendezvous because that's the name of the boat. The boat's name is rendezvous. So there you go, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Exactly exactly.
Speaker 1:All right, this is my second to last one. Oh, no, and I believe our friend shorty knits from, who has been on our podcast before, yeah, I think she was inspired by our roadside attractions, march madness to visit this place. Yeah, it is the big idaho potato hotel. I think she went there. Didn't she go there? She did, she stayed there. Didn't she go there? She did, she stayed there. I'm sure she stayed there. It's exactly what you think it's in Boise, idaho.
Speaker 2:Yep Appropriate. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And it is a gigantic potato.
Speaker 2:That's it Just a potato. It's a big potato that you can sleep in.
Speaker 1:And yeah, that's it, Just a potato. It's a big potato that you can sleep in? And yeah, that's it, it's not. I mean it's a big potato, but it only has one bedroom, one bed, one bath.
Speaker 2:It's literally one room.
Speaker 1:Pretty much. But then this is. I've stayed in the ones like this before there's like a sleeping the potato is where you sleep and stuff, and then if there's like a grain, a grain bin, that they have made it like a shower bathroom situation. So you like walk out of your potato and then you, if you want, to go to the bathroom. So this is kind of like glamping too, but there's actually, like it looks like a toilet shower situation.
Speaker 2:And even so, that toilet shower situation with a grain silo like that, like it's themed still, you know what I mean. Like it's still, it's not just like an outhouse, timber outhouse, no, this is actually a grain silo where some potatoes would even be stored at some point. You know what I mean, right? Yeah, I like it and you know what you think?
Speaker 1:I'm staying in a potato. Really that can't be nice. Well, the inside is nice. It's a nice interior of this potato. Like they've hollowed the potato out, there's like a fireplace in this potato. It's nice. I've never been to Boise have you been to Boise?
Speaker 2:No, no, I've never been to Boise.
Speaker 1:So there you been to boise. No, no, I've never been to boise.
Speaker 2:So there you go. Yeah, absolutely yeah. Outside of it is looks like a mini golf course. Yes, yes, because it's all sort of um, it's all contained within, like a timber fence all the way around, like an old school sort of uh, western timber fence. Um, it's got the green grass and then you've got the white pebbles that that you walk across between your potato and then the bathroom area.
Speaker 1:It's just a lovely setup. Yeah, there you go. Wow, it's $190 a night, but you know what, which is a little bit more on the pricey side. But then you can say you know what, when I visited Boise, I slept in a potato. Who can?
Speaker 2:say that? Who can say that?
Speaker 1:Shorty Nitz can say that. Who can say that? Shorty nets can say that this is true, this is true, hopefully I can too someday well, there you go.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm going to move on now and I'm going to save my best one to last. So I've skipped one, josh, okay. So I'm now heading to. I'm heading to dome, sweet dome, and this is also in oregon as well.
Speaker 1:It's in bend, oregon oh my gosh, one of my last one preview is in bend, as well, so you can have two of these.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there you go, there you go. So this is in bend, oregon, um, it's 155 a night, so again quite affordable. Three guests, two bedrooms, two beds and one bath. Now, this is literally what it says. It's a dome, it's a geos, geodesic dome. We love, we love our geo thing.
Speaker 1:So it's a geodesic dome, yes it's, which means it's shaped like the earth.
Speaker 2:I don't know geodeo, I know I think geodesic means like it's a uh uh, like it's made out of so many different pieces so it's a it's not a complete circle per se. Yeah, it is overall, but it's. It's got square, it's got flat plate pieces, all over triangles, triangles.
Speaker 1:It's like many triangles put together. Yes, making a dome yep, yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 2:So that's what happens with it, but the one. What I loved about this, josh, is that it's two stories, so you can walk straight into the front and you're walking to the top story, but then you go downstairs as well for the second story. So it's quite large. It's not like the potato, where it's just one room. The second floor of this one itself is actually floating. It doesn't touch the walls, so it's actually hanging from the roof, the ceiling, it's not touching the walls itself, and therefore what happens is that the sounds that you make because it's a dome, the sounds that you make, echo throughout the entire dome, from top to bottom. See, this would be interesting. This is very interesting. That's what I thought too.
Speaker 2:There is no blackout curtains in any of the windows. So basically, when the sun comes up, guess what? You're getting up too. There you go. That's not going to be good for you. I know you like your sleeping with Goliath, yeah, so once the sun rises, you're up as well. It's close enough to town in regards to supplies, but you are very secluded on the property itself, so you can walk around naked, for instance, and no one's going to see you because you're fully enclosed around a bushland woodland area and again open fire pit and outdoor seating, which we all, I love that.
Speaker 2:I love that more than I think I love that more than the uh, the hot tub, but it's it's, it's close it's close.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there you go. This is my domes. This is very cozy looking. Yes, I think I would love. I think the winter picture is just. It looks like this. This is where I want to be all winter long yeah, yeah, it's very cozy and I'll just say, like on airbnb, there are a lot of domes like dome houses. I think it was like a trend.
Speaker 1:I think it was like a trend to make these in the 70s and my guess is that they probably sat for years and then people bought these things to rent out to Airbnb because they're just really cool looking. Yeah, in my research I ran into a couple of domes, but this one is awesome. And, greg, I've talked to you about this because we've been talking about, like, where are some places we can take long weekends. I want to visit Bend, oregon. Yes, I've never been there before. There's an official geo tour there, so geocachers know what that is, but it's a series of geocaches. If you complete them all, you get a souvenir, you get a geocoin.
Speaker 2:so maybe, craig, when we visit Bend, we'll need to stay here, or we'll need to stay at my next one, because mine is also in Bend Oregon or we stay at both next one, because mine is also in Bend Oregon or we say it both One, not at each.
Speaker 1:Well, but there's a problem with mine but. I'll get to that, but my final one is in Bend, oregon. It is the last Blockbuster video rental store on the earth. Really, now now I know you're not american craig do you know what blockbuster is right? Blockbuster was in australia too, so oh, really it was that big yeah that was worldwide yeah, well, netflix put them all out of business except for one, and there is one blockbuster left in the world.
Speaker 1:It is in Bend Oregon, and if you click on the link, Craig yeah, I am. They have made this an Airbnb.
Speaker 2:So is it? I've got questions, so many questions. Is it a real store during the day?
Speaker 1:Yes, it's a real store during the day, like you can go there and actually, craig, if you get a chance, and you should put this in the show notes. A real store during the day? Yes, it's a real store during the day, like you can go there and actually craig, if you get a chance. We should, and you should put this in the show notes. There is a documentary about this blockbuster. It is called the last blockbuster. Yes, have you seen this documentary? I have. Okay, you've seen it.
Speaker 2:Yeah so I think they featured it in um.
Speaker 1:They featured this airbnb in the movie the documentary, the last blockbuster. It's just like this woman from ben that just like is so proud to keep this last blockbuster going. It is a real blockbuster. If you go to the I went to the last blockbusters uh website and like on the front page it's like new releases and they're it's new releases like they still rent out DVDs, but in 2020,.
Speaker 2:I think.
Speaker 1:here's my. I didn't get all the information on this In anticipation for the documentary that was coming out. They were like, I think, how can we get more attention and promotion for the movie? So for like a weekend they must have worked together with Airbnb and they made it into an Airbnb where I just think it looks like three people stayed there. There's only three reviews.
Speaker 1:And they opened it up to locals to say and they turned it into like a 1990s slash 1980s living room and you have a free run, free reign at the snacks and the store there's a couch and you can walk up through the store and find a movie. So I don't believe you can walk up through the store and find a movie.
Speaker 2:So I don't believe you can stay there anymore.
Speaker 1:No, it says sold out. Yeah, sold out.
Speaker 2:But there is a request button, Josh. There is a request button, so it's a possibility for the right amount of money.
Speaker 1:then you probably could stay there again. Scroll over the request button.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's blocked out, there we go, don't request anything.
Speaker 1:But the reason I put it on here is a I want to visit the last blockbuster, I want to visit bend, and now I, I'm gonna, we're gonna, stay in the dome. Now, yeah, we have to stay in the dome, but we got to visit the blockbuster, but it is actually an airbnb because it's on the website yes, I don't and there's no price because so it's less than two hundred dollars. It's free, exactly exactly, that's't check it out.
Speaker 2:So it's less than $200.
Speaker 1:It's free, I guess. So Exactly, that's my final one.
Speaker 2:There you go. That's your final one. Well, my final one. As I said, I've left my final one to last. The best one to last for me personally, and let me scroll through. It is the. Again, it's themed in terms of the movies et know the Hobbit, you know all that sort of style. Click on this, josh, and have a look at this. In Russell Vale, arkansas, which is just northwest of Little Rock, only $171. Now, for that price, what you get here is insanely good. There's eight guests yes, up to eight guests. Two bedrooms, all beds, one bathroom. If you're a fan of anything of that, you know Tolkien theme, lord of the Rings. This place, everything is stunning, everything is hand-carved wood, even every door. Every door is a big circle-shaped door that you open up and walk through a circle. You know, if you're staying here, you are. You are the Lord of the Rings. If you stay here, you are the Lord of those rings.
Speaker 1:I don't think you said what it was called. I didn't. The Hobbit House.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's a.
Speaker 1:Hobbit.
Speaker 2:House. It's a Hobbit House, yeah, the Hobbit House. My favorite, though, is that there's a full-size self-standing bath in the bathroom. Wait a minute, self-standing bath in the bathroom. Wait a minute. Like, complete with a. You know those timber benches that go across the old school baths with the feet underneath the bath. This has got that timber bit of wood so you can place your books there, your reading table, you can put some candles, oh my gosh, this is your dream come true.
Speaker 1:We know you love your baths.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love a bath. So there you go. So that's my what. What questions you have of this one, josh? Oh my gosh, I love.
Speaker 1:This is just beautiful. This is just beautiful. Yep, uh, yeah, of course, if you're a fan of lord of the rings, even if you're not a fan of lord of the rings, this is so unique. The best part to me are these doors, gigantic doors that are circles, and, oh my gosh, have you ever seen craig? A longer, larger couch oh, I know in this.
Speaker 2:You can fit the whole cast of lord of the rings on that sucker yeah, exactly, and it's a brown leather which matches them perfectly with all the timber work inside. And then you've got the coffee table in the front there as well, which looks like literally just a shaved piece of, uh, of a massive tree. It's even got the live edges, they call it as well.
Speaker 1:So yeah, exactly whoever built this had a ton of talent. Exactly like beautiful murals painted on the walls, and like they're not just murals, they're like like trees that are sticking out. I mean, our description is not doing justice.
Speaker 2:No, and it will never do it justice for this. I mean. Even to think of the bedding itself, Josh, as well. Every bed is made of actual logs, like timber logs. You know what I mean? So it's timber logs, that's all it is. So, yeah, every wall is all timber walls, I mean. But then again it's still got the nice things like LED screens for TV, so it's still a nice area to be in. But to stay in a place like this, but for me, apart from the bath, yeah, it's 100% the doors, the doors. For me, those big circle, huge doors are just insane.
Speaker 1:For what this is and how amazingly beautiful it is. I cannot believe it's only $171 a night. I know.
Speaker 2:That's my thought too.
Speaker 1:That's exactly my thought as well. So my point here is often when I'm thinking you know I take trips or geocaching events the easy route is to take to just get the hotel. That's the easy route and, depending if you're willing to share, I get it. Sometimes it's a cheaper route but really, especially when you are with other people, the Airbnb actually is a more unique experience and it's a more comfortable experience and it's often cheaper because we've experienced the experiences.
Speaker 1:Craig, it's like when we search for it, we usually search for, you know, do the filters? Two bedrooms, two beds, yeah, and you got a door and you know you have a common area to be hanging out in. Yeah, it's a better, often cheaper and a better deal. And I think a lot of people don't think about, think even they don't even consider staying at airbnb because they're so in. This mindset of like, oh, we got to get a hotel room exactly ends up being typically, yeah, more expensive, uh, especially, and you get. You know, you get a what I call like semi-privacy right, exactly, if you want privacy in the hotel, you got to get a different room yeah, exactly, exactly right.
Speaker 2:Um, the only thing I'll say as well is that people need if you don't use airbnb that much, just be careful, because they do put charges on top of, like, cleaning fee charges and airbnb charges, so nothing, the full price like anything in america. Really, the full price isn't the listed price that you see. So just to let you know in australia, there are some downsides.
Speaker 1:Have you ever seen an airbnb where, like you know, you charge? They charge you like a cleaning fee, but but then you're like the instructions. To check out is like take out the garbage, clean up the sink, do all the dusting no dishes to be left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the ones, exactly, exactly. So there are good and bad and josh, we might do another episode later on down the track as well. In regards to bad Airbnb stays or something like that too.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that would be fun.
Speaker 2:Because we're not sponsored, so we can do whatever we like. Just saying Exactly.
Speaker 1:And you know some people. There's too much stuff on social media, I feel like, where people are like and some of let's be real, some of this is fake where people are in an Airbnb and they're like I found a camera. Oh, yeah, it is so rare that anything like that happens. Yeah, and I believe a lot of those. When you see them on a video or something like I found a camera, I don't even believe they're real. No, no, and it's just don't people.
Speaker 2:people are good generally by generally yeah, generally quite good I mean, let's be honest, generally good.
Speaker 2:If if I was, if I was staying in somewhere like that, and they that I saw a camera of some sort, I'd be like, uh, what are you looking at this thing for? I mean, you, number one, you need a wide angle lens. Just to get me all in, just saying so, I don't know what sort of lens you've been managing, I'd be able to see a wide angle lens, just saying it'd be one of those uh 3d lenses that you see on imax.
Speaker 1:But anyway, we're digressing, josh, uh, yeah I want to say one more thing, yeah, yeah yeah, of course, when I went through this whole list, you know a lot of people when they're trying to decide should we make this ufo of airbnb, or you know and they think about where they live, for example, and they think gosh Bend, oregon, is such a great place to live and we should do an Airbnb because you know why, they're proud of their town and that is a damn rare thing these days and I can't think of a person more proud of their town than those that are Airbnb hosts. So thank you to the hosts that have hosted Josh someone did message me.
Speaker 2:Someone did message me the other day and said Josh didn't say that.
Speaker 1:I know Now it's a mixed bag.
Speaker 2:It's a mixed bag.
Speaker 1:now I could say it. I could not. I like to keep you on their toes.
Speaker 2:In your defense, though, josh. You didn't say it in that particular episode. You didn't, but we had a bonus episode for our patrons and you said it in the bonus, so there you go, that's right so you haven't missed out so no, if you don't hear it in the real episode, the patrons are hearing it exactly. And so if people want to become a patron, josh, how do they do that? Look at that for a segue yes, such a good segue.
Speaker 1:So truth corner we don't have any sponsors. No, and I don't care. No, it doesn't matter, because our sponsors are the people that listen to this and we appreciate them so much, like so many of our patrons, got this podcast off the ground yeah, like these microphones this beautiful, this beautiful sound you're hearing right now it's because the patrons, there's no echo we're not like an echoey space.
Speaker 1:You're hearing our crisp, beautiful voices because the patrons made it possible Exactly Hosting. It's not cheap Another reason I'm going behind the curtain here, craig. Yeah, we have AI. The robots help us master the sound, so it maximizes. You have a little mastery thing for my voice one for yours and the robots make us sound good.
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Speaker 2:Exactly, and also Josh as well. People can reach out to us. For instance, like that person did, they clicked a text message and sent us a message about your floor mats, making sure that you got your money's worth. But anyway, how else can people find us if they want to find us, mate.
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Speaker 2:So that's our show for today. Please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcasting app.
Speaker 1:And, as always, josh may your travels always, oh gosh.
Speaker 2:I'll kick that in.
Speaker 1:I'll kick that in May. Your travels always lead you to the most unexpected and amazing hidden Airbnb gems like sleeping in a potato around the world and the USA. See you next time. Bye USA, see you next time. Bye everybody. See you bye.
