16 March 2010 - 14:38Can’t get a room at the Ritz? Stay in their backyard.

Carre d’etoile has created the perfect hotel room squished into a transportable 10ft.x10ft. cube, with a skylight. This French, eco-tourism company has mastered a high-end-room-in-a-box equipped with accommodations for four, a kitchen, a flat screen TV, shower, and a telescope.

They have also paired their modern image with effective advertising strategies reaching their target through social media with twitter and blogger out-reach, even appearing in trendhunter.com. Currently, these French cubes can only be found in France, but with all the buzz floating around their bound to reach an international audience quickly (although the space might be a bit tight for us larger Americans).

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