English Translation:
A tent at the station
National-Railway (NS) is setting up ten tents on the upper floor of Utrecht Central Station. Each tent has a made-up bed, and NS will provide everything you need. This includes breakfast, drinks, earplugs, pleasant music and even a bicycle for the daily trip to the city centre for the rest of the UIT programme. So the students hardly need to bring anything themselves, except a charger and toothbrush.
A pleasant start to every morning At a real Glamping site, you wake up feeling refreshed, and Glamping Utrecht Centraal is no exception. Every morning, there is a pleasant breakfast where the glamping guests can meet each other. After that, the students can easily and punctually continue on to all the activities of the UIT week in the city. With a place to sleep at the station, train delays are no longer a valid excuse for being late.
Sign up via Instagram This Glamping is intended for first-year students who come from far away and will be studying in Utrecht from September onwards. NS is looking for adventurous guests with a good story and a fully charged power bank. You can sign up from today by sending a motivation letter (e.g. via video) to the NS Instagram account. This is possible until 4 August 2025.
That’s not camping. That’s asleep over.
All the downsides of camping, with none of the benefits?
Some intern likely mentioned that it’s not “camping” if it’s inside an unabandoned railway building, so they pivoted to the bullshit “word” (ie. marketing buzzword, no one with any self-respect uses it unironically), and we got this. 🤷🏽♂️
I think it’s pretty cool, but I just love train stations.
