Last but not least: Hotel attracts test sleepers
A hotel in Helsinki advertised a "dream job": The hotel was looking for test sleepers and attracted about 800 people.
The hotel owner Tio Tikka came up with the idea. He wanted to use it for a bit of publicity, as the SDA writes. In the job description he posted, one of the hotel's 35 rooms is to be tested night after night. "I was expecting maybe a hundred applications," Tikka told the AFP news agency on Friday. But now he already has around 800 from all over the world - and the closing date for applications is not for another month.
According to SDA, Tikka has owned the Hotel Finn for two and a half years and has just had it extensively renovated. This is exactly what he wants to publicize with his test sleeper campaign. The overnight stay costs nothing for the actual test sleepers. There will even be a fee. However, the amount has not yet been determined. All they have to do in return is make entries on the hotel's blog.
Someone is buying blogger votes, you might think. After all, who would write a bad review about a gift? And if you do, it certainly won't be as bad as that of a disgruntled paying guest. At least they don't get paid on top of a free night's stay. (uma)
