were is this??? and how much is it to cost??? 
| Karosta hotel prison in latvia |
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| Written by i j |
| Friday, 03 December 2010 18:17 |
Yesterday I wrote about kilmainham Gaol and those who read that article should have read a line about a special hotel that I know, well, maybe it’s too much tourism in so few time but here is the article about that hotel, today we talk about…
This is the only military prison open to tourism in Europe, it was open as a prison for most part of 20 century but now it has been slightly changed into a museum for people that, like us, enjoy of this kind of attractions, but this is not a common museum because this museum offers shows and… accommodation.
This place is near the center of Liepaja city (Latvia)
If we take a look to this place history we can find that in here died a lot of people, in deed more that 150 people were shoot in here… that’s enough for considering this place to be hunted… but those spirits don’t have much work in scaring the people inside because this prison is quite scary itself.
But the greatness of this place is that it offers tours around the museum, accommodation and special activities around their dark cells… and the employess of this place will take care in recreation of all aspects of the live inside.
Yes, what I’m saying is that you can come to this place and ask them to accommodate you in a cell as if you were a prisoner, you’ll sleep in an iron made bed in a room with iron bars (and closed door) and eat a real prison meal… in deed for doing that you will have to sign a special agreement in which you agree to accomplish the contract conditions.
That agreement includes some unresting lines like the one in which you agree to be insulted or to accomplish humiliating orders without complain. In case of disobedience they could punish you with physical exercise, cleannising work of with the expulsion of this place.
You don’t have to expend a full night in here to feel that you are inside a prison, in deed that not the only activity for which you have to sign a special agreement… you can also take part in a show called “behind the bars”, that show pretends to teleport us to the jail live and feel in our skin how people lived here.
Until here… we could know before hand what to expect from this place, but life isn’t flavour enough with a bit of pepper so you can add a bit of emotion… you can hire some special services (with better options if you come with a large group) and take part (for example) in the interrogation of some crime… as the prisoner of course…
And if what you want it’s a real adventure you can get the surprise tour, which it’s exactly that… a surprise, I can tell you much about it because they don’t say anything about it either…
It’s needed a decent English level because if it could be disgusting to be insulted and order… the situation could get very ugly if we don’t have a clue of what the hell are they yelling us…
There are some activities less related with a prison and more related with the army, it’s possible to expend 24 hours in a military training ground, there we will live, sleep and eat as the army did in 20th century for a full day, you’ll have to run, to creep, to explore catacombs using a torch, wear gas mask… and other funny things.
That isn’t bad although I prefer the prison side of this place.
The only thing that I see that doesn’t match all this is that in the end this is a tourist place and therefore you want people to go out happy… so I suppose (although I’m not sure) that in the end it wont be as bad as they say it is… although who knows, maybe they decide the “evilness” level depending on the people…
I leave it here and maybe someone who ahs been there can tell us more about this place.
Enjoy.
Link: www.karostascietums.lv
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| Last Updated on Friday, 03 December 2010 18:30 |