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USA: For a limited time, a Denver hotel is offering a package with a one-night stay in a pop-up, inflatable room that rises 22ft in the air, thanks to a scissor lift on top of the van on which it sits.

The cost: $50,000 (€37,680). There is a weight limit. No smoking is allowed.

Architect Alex Schweder created the 5ft-by-7ft (1.5m-by-2.1m see-through room atop a van for the Biennial of the Americas festival of arts, culture, and ideas in Denver.