An Englishman who will attend this month’s Bugged Out Weekender, but doesn’t plan on sleeping for the duration of the festival, has attempted to place his chalet on Airbnb.
Martin Smith, a nineteen year old student in the University of Brighton, sees the empty chalet as the perfect way to recuperate some of the money he has outlayed on a ticket for the festival, which takes place in Butlins, Bognor Regis, between 15 and 17 January.
Wunderground spoke with the young man earlier today, “I’m not really into the whole sleeping at festivals thing. The way I see it, I’ll be back in lectures by the following Tuesday and I’ll have all the time in the world to catch up on some sleep then.”
“Me and my friends have booked a four berth chalet and we reckon that we could make at least half the money we’ve spent on tickets back by putting it up on Airbnb for the weekend,” explained Mr. Smith, who claims that sleeping at weekends is for “old people and normals”. “If we’re not going to be sleeping in it then there’s just no point in having it, we’ll have nowhere to eat or wash but we’re all students so it wouldn’t be the first time we’ve gone three days without food or a shower.”
“Hopefully we’ll find some daft tourists who’ve never heard of Bugged Out to take the place for the weekend,” continued Smith. “Although, we haven’t really had too much interest in the gaff yet, the fact we’ve got no pictures and no address for the place is probably slowing things down a little and I’d imagine the demand for non-Bugged Out related accommodation in Bognor Regis in January is about as high as demand for salt and vinegar skin lotion in a burns unit.”
According to festival organisers, the subletting of any property in the Butlins compound is strictly forbidden during the festival and anyone found to be doing so will have their tickets cancelled immediately.
“We’ve really had to clamp down on subletting since Jackmaster moved fifteen monks from Buckfast Abbey into his chalet during the festival in Southport back in 2013,” claimed project manager Ethan Reilly. “He had them making his own private brew of Buckfast in the bathtub and it’s a really smelly process, the entire block had to fumigated and we’ve not been asked back since.”
If you’d like to rent your own chalet at Bugged Out Weekender, and possibly even try some of Jackmaster’s home made Buckfast, tickets are available here.
