If there is one thing we at Hotel Fugger take pride in it is nothing at all. We at Hotel Fugger know we
have nothing to be proud of but that's OK because we're not proud
people.
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You will love the food at Hotel Fugger
because there isn't much of it so if you get your hands on it you
will really value it. That is why we say that you will love the food
at Hotel Fugger.
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Do not drink the water at Hotel Fugger.
It tastes bad. It all comes from the tank on the roof. There are dead
bodies in the tank. We don't know how the bodies got in there as the
tank's only aperture has a diameter of nine inches. However, a suicidal
troupe of contortionists from the Chinese State Circus were reported
missing five years ago and it was around about that time that Hotel
Fugger's water started to taste bad.
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Many famous personalities stayed at
Hotel Fugger but all of these famous personalities are dead and all
of them died in Hotel Fugger. The circumstances of their deaths are
considered so grim that no one talks about these famous personalities
anymore. Hence, they are no longer famous.
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When you book into Hotel Fugger we give
you the directions to your room. 'It's at the end of the corridor',
we say and you walk down the corridor toward the end but there is no
end. The corridor just goes on and on and on and on and on.
Eventually you give up and turn back. Then you realise
that the corridor has no start either. There is just corridor,
stretching out in both directions, forever. Doorless corridor.
Endless corridor. The last corridor you will ever see. The corridor
you will die in. This corridor is our little joke. We have to keep ourselves amused somehow. It's just
something to lighten the mood here at Hotel
Fugger.
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At Hotel Fugger we have face painting
for the children but the children are all dead and the people
painting their faces are the people who killed them. If it's any
consolation, the face being painted on the children's faces is your
face.
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Hotel Fugger is heated by the
collective unease of its guests.
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The Devil came to stay at Hotel Fugger
but was told there was only one bed left and that he'd have to share
a room. The Devil agreed and we put him in a room with God. We locked the
door from the outside and the two of them are trapped there to this
day. If you put your ear to the door and listen you can hear the two
of them arguing. Things can get pretty bitchy. Listening at their
door is one of the chief attractions at Hotel Fugger.
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A guest recently found a finger in his
bed at Hotel Fugger. It turned out that it was his own finger and
there was nothing to worry about because it was still attached to his
hand. The guest thought he'd report it anyway because, as the guest
said himself, 'you never know' and that is very true, you never do
know. In fact, that is our motto here at Hotel Fugger. 'YOU NEVER
KNOW.' You find those words on the heading of our stationary,
embroidered into our towels and on the plaque that hangs over our
entrance. These words are also written in the minds of our staff and
guests alike, in letters standing one mile high and made from the
bones of the hundreds of millions of men, women and children who died with the words 'you never know' on their lips.
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Hotel Fugger has been completely
refurbished. To be precise, Hotel Fugger has been utterly
unfurbished. There are no longer walls at Hotel Fugger. Hotel Fugger
no longer has doors or furnishings of any sort or even a roof. Hotel
Fugger is just an idea. Hotel Fugger is not a good idea but it is an
idea and you are stuck with the idea because I've just placed the
idea of Hotel Fugger in your head.
Hotel Fugger – you're there right
now.
Enjoy your stay.
You Never Know.
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