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Rent a 'Netflix & Chill'-Themed West Village Room on Airbnb for $400

By Nicole Levy | January 28, 2016 12:26pm | Updated on January 28, 2016 12:37pm
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You can rent this "Netflix & Chill"-theme room for $400 a night in the West Village.
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We've got the perfect way to spend Valentine's Day weekend this year — and it's not watching movies with that special someone on your laptop in your bedroom.

You can now rent a "Netflix & Chill"-themed room in the West Village on Airbnb, featuring a bed with custom-made Netflix sheets and pillows to bring the hookup euphemism to life for $400 a night, according to the listing.

The room is the work of creative collective Art404 and artist Tom Galle, and looks to "bring the famous 'Netflix & Chill meme' to life and offer it as an IRL experience that people can rent," in the words of the Airbnb listing.

"It’s mainly like an art installation, meme-experience," said Moises Sanabria, a creative lead at Art404 who worked on the project. 

Other room amenities include an HD projector equipped with the new AppleTV and a Netflix account, surround-sound speakers encircling the bed, and a fully stocked mini-bar. (Because how can you really chill without getting a bit buzzed?)

Art404 engineer Alyssa Davis said the listing has attracted several inquiries and one reservation since it went live Wednesday afternoon. Guests who book the room for two would be sleeping next door to the group's studio.

The plan in the future is to weave other Internet services into the experience, she said, by introducing such features as a "Seamless night, with different foods delivered at different times," or by placing ads on the dating app Tinder.

The brands already involved in the project haven't weighed in on it so far, Sanabria said.

"We've yet to hear from Airbnb or Netflix directly, but we're curious to hear what they think about it," he said.

Asked to comment on the listing, a Netflix spokesperson had this to say in an email: "We are not involved in this."

Airbnb did not immediately return DNAinfo's request for comment.