Most hotels try to impress you with infinity pools, rooftop bars, and tiny shampoo bottles you “accidentally” steal.

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This one has decided to remove the walls, ceiling, and even the lobby.

Hidden high in the Swiss Alps is arguably the world’s most ridiculous — and somehow brilliant — hotel experience, where guests pay nearly £200 a night to sleep outdoors on a double bed with absolutely no walls, no roof, and no bathroom. Just Swiss vibes.

The bizarre open-air “hotel room” is called Null Stern, which translates from German as “Zero Star,” and it’s the creation of twin Swiss concept artists Frank and Patrik Riklin, who seem determined to confuse the hospitality industry one mattress at a time, per The Guardian.

Perched 6,463 feet above sea level in the mountains of Switzerland’s Safiental region, the setup consists of a queen-sized bed, bedside tables, lamps, panoramic Alpine views, and not a whole lot else.

If you’re wondering where the toilet is, the answer is: technically somewhere down the mountain.

A public bathroom is reportedly around a five to ten-minute walk away, although the creators were also very honest about the backup option.

They explained to Business Insider: “If nature calls, you can use the nature around you”.

Which is probably the most Swiss sentence ever spoken.

Despite sounding like the accommodation equivalent of forgetting to finish building a hotel, the concept absolutely exploded online after launching in 2016 and was booked out almost immediately.

And weirdly, people loved the idea. “The star is not the hotel but each guest,” Null Stern co-founder Daniel Charbonnier explained. “We got rid of all the walls, and the only thing left is you and your experience.”

The Riklin brothers say the whole project is actually designed as a statement against modern luxury culture and the obsession with star ratings.

Patrik Riklin explained: “We are making a statement of the antithesis of the megalomania of this time.”

Which is a very artistic way of saying: “Maybe you don’t need a gold-plated lobby and ten scented candles to enjoy yourself.”

Their “zero star” concept first began years earlier inside an underground nuclear bunker near St Gallen, where the brothers transformed a former fallout shelter into the world’s first “zero-star hotel.”

Around 3,000 guests reportedly stayed there paying roughly £15 a night.

At a time when luxury hotels were inventing six and seven-star labels, the Riklins decided to go in the complete opposite direction. Patrik said: “The zero means freedom from the absurdity of the star system and questions the idea of luxury.”

And somehow, against all logic, it worked.

The outdoor Alpine room became so popular it was booked solid for months, with travellers desperate to spend a night essentially camping with better sheets.

To create the surreal setup, construction crews flattened part of the mountain so the bed could sit perfectly overlooking the valleys below. The result genuinely looks like somebody accidentally dropped an IKEA showroom into the middle of the Alps.

But while the room itself is minimal, guests still get some surprisingly luxurious treatment.

Local farmers reportedly take turns working as personal butlers, wearing bow ties, white gloves, and work boots while serving breakfast in bed.

Guests wake up to coffee and organic salami sandwiches while staring across the mountains under open skies. Which is either incredibly peaceful or deeply stressful depending on your relationship with insects.

The butlers stay nearby in small cabins and prepare meals for guests much like a normal hotel would — except this hotel also leaves you entirely exposed to wind, wildlife, and whatever noise mountains make at 3:00AM.

Thankfully, if bad weather rolls in, guests are allowed to cancel at the last minute. Because paying £200 to become the world’s dampest burrito probably loses its charm fairly quickly.

Still, the Riklin brothers insist the idea is far bigger than just one strange bed on a hill.

“The mountains are the imaginary building of the new Null Stern,” Patrik said, adding: “It looks like a fantasy but it’s a serious statement – a fantasy you can sleep in.”

And honestly, fair play to them. Because in a world full of overpriced “luxury experiences,” they somehow convinced people to spend hundreds of pounds sleeping outside with no bathroom and called it art.

Even more impressively, people can’t stop booking it.

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