BRITAIN’S MOST BONKERS B&Bs

FOR years now, thanks to the home rental website Airbnb, millions of us have been happily renting other people’s homes, sleeping in their beds, sitting on their sofas, watching their TVs — and even, in some cases, feeding their guinea pigs. We could rent snazzy houses in London’s Mayfair, bothies in the wilds of Scotland, a converted church in Shropshire — or a sofabed a stone’s throw from our office Christmas party. Lately, it seems, competition has raised the stakes, and the options have become a little more eclectic. Fancy hunkering down in a hobbit house, or a night in private jet? Or maybe a day or two in a train carriage, a tree house or your very own pub? Here, JANE FRYER runs the rule over Airbn-bizarre . . .