The Home Alone House in Winnetka, Illinois. — © Shutterstock
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AirBnb will soon be launching a special ‘Christmas offer’. Later this month it will be possible to spend the night in the house where ‘Home alone’ – one of the absolute Christmas classics that comes on the TV every year during the holidays – was already recorded more than thirty years ago.
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mtmSource: Deadline
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Kevin McCallister’s family (played by a young Macaulay Culkin) heads to Paris for a few days at Christmas. In all the hustle and bustle, however, they forget to take Kevin with them, leaving him behind. Great news for Kevin – who can now do whatever he wants without his parents being able to say anything about it – until two burglars realize the boy is “home alone” and try to take advantage of it. Kevin realizes the nefarious plans and decides to secure the house with booby traps. Lots of booby traps.
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That, in short, is the plot of Home alone, the American comedy classic from 1990 that is also screened every year in Flanders during the holidays.
The film was shot in a house in Winnekta, Illinois, which sold for more than one and a half million dollars in 2012 and is now offered via AirBnb. This is a one-night stay for a maximum of four guests. You can try to book from 7 December. There is no fixed price, but the rental will be by auction. Proceeds from the campaign will go to a children’s hospital in Chicago.
No Kevin, but Buzz
The stay is not organized by ‘Kevin’, but by his brother ‘Buzz McCallister’ (played in the film by actor Devin D. Ratray). “I’ve grown older and wiser in the meantime, I even have my own security company,” writes ‘Buzz’ in the AirBnb press release. “But we are never too old for a holiday. For the time we are on the road – all of us, this time – I invite a team of amok makers who want to release the inner eight-year-old in themselves and walk around my parental home.”
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