Most people go on vacation to escape the feeling of being on a never-ending hamster wheel. But in what is definitely this week’s most bizarre travel news, we hear a French hotel is offering guests the ability to not only play on a hamster wheel, but completely embrace the hamster way of life.  

Heading to The Netherlands in the coming months? Home to pod-like rooms with high-tech amenities offered at relatively affordable rates, CitizenM locations in Amsterdam are giving away free nights each week to Facebook fans and Twitter followers. 

Should your inner Lords of Dogtown need a vacation, Hotel Erwin in Venice,Calif., has a proposition: catch air on the half pipe, nosh for free each morning of your stay.

You will, of course, need to provide photographic evidence of the feat, so be sure to bring a stalwart companion with a steady hand.

Planning a trip to Europe that will take place by the end of March 2010? Then you'll be interested to learn that Lufthansa launched a three-day fare sale this week that features one-way sale fares starting at $243 from more than 15 U.S. cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle, Boston and Los Angeles.

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If the room at St. Martins Lane, A Morgans Original reportedly occupied by David Hasselhoff last week looked anything like the one above, we can see why the hotel was so eager to oust the star and send him, first, to the basement and, later, to a London hospital.