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Fancy a One Night Stay Under the Eiffel Tower?

All you have to do is answer a simple question to be awarded this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

May 21, 2016 | By Shatricia Nair

Whatā€™s more romantic than visiting the Eiffel Tower with your loved one? Spending the night under it, of course. In a lead-up to the highly-anticipated UEFA Euro 2016 games, short-term vacation rental site HomeAway has launched a contest offering up to 24 people a chance to spend the night on the first floor of the iconic landmark,Ā reimagined by a Paris designer.

This contest is not all luck though. The four best answers to the question ā€œWhat would you do if the HomeAway Eiffel Tower was all yours for a night?ā€ will be awarded the opportunity to bring along five guests each for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Winners can also expect three additional nights in a Paris HomeAway vacation rental, round-trip transportation and a gourmet dinner ā€“ as if the Eiffel Tower stay wasnā€™t a sweet enough deal.

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This isnā€™t the first contest of its kind ā€“ short-term vacation rental companies have been trying to outdo one another with wacky and exclusive properties. ā€˜Sleeping with sharksā€™ may have seemed like a ridiculous proposition but Airbnb made the impossible happen for three brave couples with its custom-built underwater chamber at the Paris aquarium last month. Denmarkā€™s Kronborg Castle also threw open its doors for the first time in a century to mark Shakespeareā€™s 400th anniversary in April, allowing two guests to live as Hamlet did (if he wasn’t fictional).

The contest runs May 19 ā€“ 31, 2016 in the United States, May 20 ā€“ June 5, 2016 in Asia and May 19 ā€“ June 5, 2016 in Europe. The four lucky groups selected will be hosted June 23, June 28, July 4 and July 8, 2016 during the UEFA Euro 2016 games period, and winners will be announced June 10.

Click here to find out more about this contest and to participate.


 
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