Hotel Haiku

Check out this article about Hotel Haiku, an artistic new hotel listing site that allows travelers to choose their accommodation based on a haiku poem instead of a property description.

According to the site’s creator, Garri Rayne:

It is actually very simple. Each section has a picture, Haiku and link to the hotel’s website. The idea is to create the "most original and concise hotel website ever.”

I love it! No one reads property descriptions anyway, so this is perfect. I wonder if he would list hostels too.

Perhaps the oddest feature about the site is that it turned off at the end of each day. Yes, Hotel Haiku is open from 7.30am to 9.30pm GMT on most days, except Sunday.

“It’s an attempt to annoy and scupper the content scrapers, copyists and AirBNB,” Rayner says cheekily.”

A website with closing hours? Well, it’s a fun endeavor, not a commercial one.

If I had a party hostel I might write this haiku description:

What would the haiku for your hostel be?