This is the best Super Bowl housing

January 30th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

True story: Me and E, for a brief instant, flirted with the idea of making a wa-wa-wa-wild and crazy trip to Arizona this weekend. But then E looked up flights and they were expensive. Not to mention, hotels aren’t that cheap, either. (Next year, we will go to Tampa. Not for the game but for the atmosphere.) But had we noticed that a monastery was renting out room for $250 a night — a steal, I tell you! — well, we probably still wouldn’t have gone. But we would have contemplating going for like, about a minute longer.

From the NY Times:

With its posters of Mother Teresa, vinyl tablecloths and second-hand furniture, the monastery’s offerings don’t match up to some of the Super Bowl packages that nearby hotels and resorts are offering, with free cocktail hours, personal concierge service and sometimes even a meet-and-greet with N.F.L. players. Though there is no curfew at the monastery, some Super Bowl visitors might be dismayed to learn that along with the ban on alcohol (forget about keg stands or late-night drinking games), overnight guests cannot smoke.

Guests at the monastery will sleep in single beds in rooms named after saints Hildegard, Helen, Monica and Ann. Most of the rooms sleep three people, and there is no telephone or television in the rooms.

Wait, no alcohol? OK, nevermind then. But those vinyl tablecloths sure do sound lovely.