Daily Times

A Swedish hotel chain said on Sunday it is offering guests a refund – but with strings attached: you only qualify if you get divorced in the year following your stay.

The Countryside luxury hotel group said its “radical” idea was designed to make “more people understand the degree to which it is important to invest in one’s relationship before it is too late,” spokeswoman Anna Madsen told reporters. If “against all expectations” clients did opt to untie the knot within 12 months, the group said they had only to provide evidence of their divorce to receive a refund for a stay of up to two nights. The offer is open to all couples “legally married and staying in the same room”, it said. Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund. At 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre, with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country.