Now it’s time for your daily dose of disgust at the habits of the rich and disconnected: Upper class twats are now spending upwards of $600 a night to participate in “luxury camping” retreats.
The Bondicks, who live in a sprawling home on the edge of a state park outside Boston and hire a personal chef at home, shelled out $595 a night — plus an additional $110 per person per day for food.It’s a hefty price to sleep in a tent, but the perks include a camp butler to build their fire, a maid to crank up the heated down comforter at nightfall and a cook to whip up bison rib-eye for dinner and French toast topped with huckleberries for breakfast.
The article is calling it “glamping,” for “glamorous camping,” but I think we can call it “smart ranch operators extracting money from those with more of it than sense.”
Really, though, it’s a damn tragedy. Camping doesn’t have to be entirely about roughing it, but it should pretty much always be about connecting to the outdoor landscape.
Say, has the butler cleaned the trout yet? [LATimes.com]
Tragedy? Brilliance! Kudos to the folks that realized they could fleece rich idiots with this one.
I want to go camping again. Just regular old camping… where you go hiking, cook your own food on your cast iron skillet over the fire you built, and are pestered by woodland creatures for your food and mosquitoes for your blood (we have problem enough with the ’skeeters right here in the apartment).
Were I to spend $600+ on a camping trip, i’d be on my way to Burning Man right now. Sadly I came up broke as shit this year. To all of my friends out there, I wish you a good week! (bastards. <3’s)
Although, I gotta say, if I weren’t paying for it, the “glamping” would be pretty rad.
wow, and the dehydrated-food ultralight campers used to get peeved at the car-campers for calling their remote-tailgating experiences “camping.” this outta make the hippies go nuts.
Building the fire is one of the the perks… as for ribeyes, I took my own ribeye when I went camping at a lake campsite, which had a metal fire pit with heavy grilling grates… Best steak I’ve ever eaten.
1. Would you rather they hoarded their money?
2. If I were rich I’d probably enjoy something like that.
3. Grow up, haters.
hell I’m all for it, what a great way to spend money, if I had that kind of disposable money I’d probably be doing the same thing.
Middy got it right.
seriously if some rich uncle said wanna go, who wouldn’t?