Sweden's Jumbo Jet Hostel Featured in USA Today

The Jumbo Hostel in Sweden got coverage in USA Today.

"I got information about this airplane standing abandoned at Arlanda," says Oscar Dios, who runs a hostel in Uppsala, about 20 miles north of Arlanda. "I thought why not try to convert it into a hostel? Since you've been converting boats and light houses and trains before into hostels."

Construction crews are working through the holidays to get the 25 rooms ready for the scheduled opening on Jan. 15. Jumbo Hostel is already taking bookings.

The 65-square-foot rooms are Spartanly furnished, with a bunk bed, an overhead luggage compartment and a flat screen TV with entertainment as well as flight information.

Every inch of the 3,800-square-foot floor space is being used. There will be a reception and small cafeteria just inside the front entrance, two rows of rooms on each side of the aisle, and showers and toilets in the rear. The bubble on top is being remodeled into a conference room with first-class flight seats.

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