House Plants on Vacation: Inside Madrid's Hotel for Domestic Flora
The run-up to an extended vacation can be filled with equal amounts of anticipation and trepidation. You’re stoked about three weeks abroad, but your pre-departure checklist is as long as your leg: unplug the appliances, pick up traveler’s checks at the bank, inform the post office to hold your mail, ask your neighbor to water your plants.
This last to-do can be particularly nerve-wracking: after the stunt she pulled at the last block party, do you really trust Ms. Gallagher to care for your prized Lycaste virinalis? If you don’t and you happen to live in Madrid, Spain, simply book a room for your plant at Hotel Para Plantas—the world’s first hotel for plants.
Located inside Isla Azul, a shopping center on the outskirts of the city, the hotel isn’t permanent. It's actually a temporary exhibit, with its offer to board plants free of charge expiring on August 31.
Professional botanists will provide “guests” with treatment tailored to their specific needs, including water, light, pruning, spraying, and irrigation. According to Springwise, security cameras will prevent a kleptomaniac from walking off with your beloved begonia.
If we have a complaint with the entire operation, it’s the snoozefest name. If you sat through even one week of Spanish I in high school, you probably picked up enough to know that Hotel Para Plantas translates to Hotel for Plants. Perhaps next year the hotel’s organizers will consider a snappier name. Our suggestion? The Flora Seasons.
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