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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MAUDE BRULARD An employee prepares the bedroom at the world's first real-life "sand castle hotel", constructed from tonnes of sand and enforced with wood, in the small southern Dutch city of Oss, on October 2, 2015. Curious tourists and the young at heart this summer flocked to Oss to spend a night, for 150 euros ($167) per night, in a specially-built room deep inside the heart of the massive castle sculpture made entirely of sand. Two sand hotels were built in the Netherlands at venues where annual sand art sculpture festivals are being held: one in Oss and the other in the northern Frisian city of Sneek. AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)