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(Room) Service Not Included
With the launch of Swap My City Pad, the world is your oyster. For free.
Fact: great hotels are addictive.
For example, the delivery of a club sandwich and glass of bubbly, ordered on a whim at h2am, might just be the definition of heaven itself. Then there’s that delicious sense of regal anonymity, the infinite helpfulness, the mini-bar… And of course the bill. Always and forever, that damned bill.
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Think about it: remove the cost of the hotel and a spontaneous long weekend in New York becomes instantly more affordable. And whilst flat-swapping seems the obvious solution, as with all forms of tit-for-tat it’s cursed by those same haunting questions: To what kind of person am I trusting my beloved tit? What is their tat really going to be like?
Swap My City Pad aims to tackle exactly this. It’s like a Facebook for travelling urbanites with nice apartments. You sign-up (for a small fee) to join the community. You post your ‘pad’ with lots of images and any local recommendations (it adds a map automatically for ease). Then just find someone else with an equally hot apartment in the city you fancy, a travel diary that lines up with yours and then, well, you do the deed (so to speak).
Currently focusing on London, New York and Paris, it’s sort of like a slick metropolitan dating site – just without the fear of ‘down-dating’. Or the awkward silences.
INFO
Swap My City Pad launches today
www.swapmycitypad.com
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CULTURELABEL PICKS:
Free Range Art Awards
Prints win prizes!
The winning prints from the Free Range Art Awards are now availiable to buy online from CultureLabel.com. Free Range is a graduate art and design fair that's dedicated to supporting emerging talent… so by purchasing a print, you not only support emerging talent, you also be getting your mitts on an artist that could be the next Hirst or Emin.
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UJ World Cup 2010
With all the drama that the World Cup musters, how can even the most hardened hater not get sucked in? The whole of the country gathering together to drink and watch 22 grown men sweat it out over one poor ball… So like we always say: "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em – in style." From sleek subterranean pizzas to full DJ line-ups, private stables to a little fashionable distraction, here’s a little reminder of the UJ rundown on the best places to catch the action.
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ART – Young love bloom in Victoria Topping's quirky work is a trippy collection of rhythmical music-inspired eye-luring art. 2pm-mightnight, CAMP, 70-74 City Road, EC1Y 2BJ. Free. |
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SHOP – It's a big'un so queue now - Vivienne Westwood's Warehouse Sale is on for three hours only. 6-9pm, 6 Davies Street, W1K 3DN. Free Entry. |
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MUSIC – Robyn's back and wristbands are first come first served to catch exclusive new material. 7pm, Rough Trade East, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL. Free.
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LISTEN – The Fitzrovia Radio Hour is back with more perfectly pronounced 50's tales. 7:30pm, Last Days of Decadence, 145 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JE. £10. |
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