Youth hostel in a jumbo jet

An old jumbo jet -- it began life with Singapore Airlines, then served Pan Am and Transjet -- was rusting in Arlanda airfield in Stockholm, so Oscar Diös bought it and turned it into an airport youth-hostel. Stockholm's great for hostels -- I love the ones on the old ships.

In December 2007, Sigtuna authorities granted a building permit for establishing Jumbo Hostel at the entrance to Arlanda airport. In January 2008, the aircraft was moved to a construction site parking where the first phase of the conversion has begun with the dismantling of the old interior, new paint and new decorations for the rooms. 450 seats are taken out and the plane is sanitized in its entirety. The hostel is built like any house, subjected to the same demands on climate control and isolation. It adheres to all common energy standards. Heating is achieved with an air-air inverter.
Summer 2008 the plane was towed to its final destination at the entrance to Arlanda where it was placed on a concrete foundation with the landing gear secured in two steel cradles. Here, Jumbo Hostel are a spectacular landmark as a portal to Arlanda offering a view of the landing strip. No visitor to Arlanda will miss the new hostel!

Jumbohostel (via Neatorama)

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ivan256

Holy crap! 350 SEK to stay? My how things have changed in the last decade…

You can take a train ride for 30 minutes outside of NYC, and get a hotel room with a king-sized bed and breakfast for that…
Anonymous

Technically being made from aluminium it wouldn’t have been rusting. Corroding would be a better term to use.
fridgehead

wow, i stayed here last week in the cockpit suite and took a couple of photos which i’ve posted up on flickr
http://flickr.com/photos/fucksocks/tags/jumbohostel/

I spent the first 30 minutes there hitting all of the buttons and levers :)
insomma

Why are there only like three pictures of the rooms on the website?
vjinterkosmos

Buildings in old planes:

http://www.oobject.com/category/buildings-in-old-planes/
pajp

I can count to at least six photos of the rooms here: http://www.jumbohostel.com/DynPage.aspx?id=64667&mn1=5293&mn2=5303
whoisvaibhav

I saw this hostel during my visits to Sweden a couple of months ago. You can’t miss it if you are flying out of Arlanda…
Hamish MacDonald

Without the context of the story, the picture included here would be a pretty frightening thought :)
nanuq

Beats the hostel in Ottawa I once stayed at that used to be a jail (although sleeping in a cell was cool).
kawayama

#6,
there are jails turned into hostels in stockholm, too. or was that in gÃ¶teborg?
Alex_M

Nanuq: Stockholm has one of those too, at LÃ¥ngholmen :)
BritSwedeGuy

It’s a shame that Arlanda is so far from Stockholm, it’d be great to stagger back from a night on the time to an airliner.
“Baby want to see my cockpit?
It’s a JUMBO cockpit.”
Kulia

Man oh man, I would LOVE to stay in this hostel. I would satisfy some of my general airplane lust. I haven’t had plans to go to Sweden, but now….hmmmm…