A Dutch vacation home with a fun secret

 

Now this Spakenburg vacation villa probably looks totally normal to the casual observer. Throughout the municipalities of  Greater Utrecht, there are any number of very similar houses. However, this one comes with a fun secret. As you walk through the house or even culsult the architectural plans held at the registry office in Bunschoten, you will see that there are two bathrooms in the property. They are both modern and well equipped with all of the necessary bathroom functionality, and most people accept that two high-class bathrooms is probably suitable for a facility of this size. The secret is this: somewhere, hidden within this Dutch vacation home, there is a third, clandestine bathroom. You might not find it and that's fine. The vacation home is more that sufficient without the third bathroom. It's got underfloor heating, an outdoor kitchen, built-in closets, a boot room AND a mud room, a secure child's play area, a small wine refrigerator. We could go on but you probably get the idea. The secret third bathroom though, that's what makes it special. Since 2002, which is when records started being kept, only two visitors have discovered the third bathroom. One was 5-year-old girl and one was a professor of archaeology from the University of Groningen. But even for the guests who didn't find the secret bathroom, just knowing that it was there with them, somewhere in the vacation home, provided a great deal of joy and excitement.