Everyone likes a hotel room with an en suite bathroom, but what about a hotel where the suite is in the bathroom?
That's what's on offer at the Netty, a new boutique hotel situated inside a converted former public restroom in the historic university town of Oxford in central England.
Located under the busy boulevard of St Giles', the Victorian-era public loo was built in 1895, according to the BBC, and remained in service until 2008.
Now the subterranean facility, which is accessed via a staircase in the middle of the road, has been transformed into two separate suites for overnight guests.
The New York Times has declared the accommodations "plush and inviting," calling out the rooms' "wall tapestries made by the heritage French company Pinton" as well as the "Pierre Frey shower curtains and dramatic headboards."
Fittingly, the suites' bathrooms are visual standouts, incorporating old-timey high cistern toilets in pink and blue along with patterned tilework, some of which is a holdover from the structure's original iteration (please tell us it was scrubbed to within an inch of its life).
"We know we are not for everyone, but it is a very nice experience if you're willing," hotel manager Ana Pinheiro told the BBC during a video walk-through.
Pinheiro also described the Netty as "one of the strangest places in Oxford to stay."
That may be true, but in nearby London (about 60 miles east of Oxford) "subterranean toilets have been converted to bougie uses for a while," says Frommer's London author Jason Cochran. "The Attendant is a chic coffee bar where you sip flat whites from counter seats made out of old Victorian urinals, and there’s also a posh cocktail club in an old toilet on Strand at Aldwych.”
Sounds like a must-see. Or should we say a gotta-go?
Nightly rates at the Netty in Oxford start around £200 ($268). For more information or to book a stay, go to TheNetty.co.uk.