Welcome to Bavaria's 'thousand-star' hotel

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BAD KISSINGEN, Germany (AFP) — Welcome to the Bad Kissingen hotel: No room service, no bed, no wi-fi -- no room at all in fact. Here in what is officially one of Germany's weirdest hotels, you sleep in a field.

It is laid out like a labyrinth in a wheat field in Bavaria in southern Germany. You arrive at "reception" -- a circus tent -- before being led along paths to one of 19 "rooms" where you sleep.

Forty-year-old Monika Fritz says she first had the idea when she heard on the radio a 1970s German folk hit called "Ein Bett im Kornfeld" ("Bed in a cornfield") by crooner Juergen Drews.

She then teamed up with local farmer and town councillor Otto Funck, 64, and the hotel is now in its seventh year, charging seven euros (10.30 dollars) a night -- three euros...