A stay at Hotel CasAnus offers visitors the chance to stay in lodgings which have been designed to resemble a giant human colon.

The appropriately named hotel was created by Dutch designer Joep van Lieshout. It starts with a foot at one end and finishes with a replica of a human anus at the other.

The hotel, located near Antwerp, in Belgium, costs around €120 a night (about R1700) and hosts one couple every month on average.

Hotel owner Geert Verbeke said: "You will find no flamboyant buildings here, but rather a refreshing, unpretentious place to look at art and a subtle criticism of the art world."

The one-bedroom lodgings feature a double bed, shower and, of course, a toilet.

Hotel CasAnus is the latest to join a string of weird hotels around the world, from the Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin, which offers a host of unusually themed rooms, including Gothic coffin-shaped beds and padded cell rooms, to renovated sewage pipe rooms at the open-air Das Park Hotel in Austria.