Switzerland is hardly known as a budget-friendly vacation destination, but a new mountainside art installation-cum-hotel purports offer the world’s first (and possibly only) 'zero-star' lodging.

With each stay at the Zero-Star Hotel, guests are provided little more than a bed and an outhouse. On paper, it sounds more like a rural hostel.

In reality, the “bedroom” is a luxury designer suite situated amid the beautiful rolling hills of Switzerland’s Appenzell region.

Guests receive a free cocktail on arrival, cooked-to-order breakfast daily, and the service of a butler (usually an area farmer in galoshes). The latter shows guests around the admittedly amenity-free property, shares corny jokes, and offers weather forecasts via an old TV set.

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