April Fool's joke or successful advertising offensive: houseboats on the Lautersee

Created: 04/02/2022, 09:32

By: Josef Hornsteiner

There will probably not be a double-decker houseboat on Lake Lautersee – at least not in the near future.

© Hotel Post Mittenwald

The manager of the Mittenwalder Posthotel will offer her guests something extraordinary in the future: floating apartments with comfort on the Lautersee.

Interested parties should only pay attention to the date on which they advertise the offer.

Mittenwald – "We wanted to go to the Isar first," explained Gudrun Rademacher dead serious on Friday.

"But it was too flat.

So we decided on the Lautersee.

Also because of the partners.” Because there the houseboats would have enough space below without running aground.

What she announces, many rubbed their eyes yesterday in astonishment.

Eight meters long, four meters wide: exclusive holiday boats on Lake Lautersee

The boss of the Mittenwalder Posthotel would like to offer her guests an extraordinary campaign in the future, as announced in an image film and a report in the "Kölner Abendblatt".

From June 2022, holidaymakers in the Isar Valley should be able to book exclusive floating apartments with generous comfort.

The boats are eight meters long and almost four meters wide.

With all the trimmings: living room and bedroom, mini kitchen, bathroom with shower and toilet, warm air heating and electricity.

Since the expansion possibilities in their Mittenwald hotel had been exhausted, they now went into shipping.

After "intensive negotiations with various authorities", the boats are to be launched at the end of May.

boat license?

Don't need it.

"An instruction on the day of handover is sufficient."

Professional video recordings and report in the "Kölner Abendblatt"

Rademacher should be having a great time one day after April 1st.

Some of them fell for this creative joke and had themselves sent to April – or to the hotel homepage, because that's what the advertising reports refer to.

At least one or the other comment in the social networks shows that some took the fun seriously.

No wonder: the video recordings were professional, just like the report of the "Kölner Abendblatt" - but this is a satirical site that fools readers with joke articles.