As a kid, you quickly learned that the best way to win a game of Monopoly was to stack every piece of real estate you owned (especially Broadway and Park Place) with little red hotels. But McDonald's just did that move one better by creating a real life little red hotel in Melbourne, Australia's Federation Square. The fast food chain, which is known Down Under as "Macca's," held a contest to choose two superfans who would get to sleep inside the mini-hotel, and the lucky winners were two women named Laura Paton and Emma Kendrick, who are close friends and live in the suburb of Belgrave. "We've often joked about moving into a Macca’s every year the Monopoly Game returns to try and win as many times as possible, but this is even better," Paton told reporters when she arrived at the board game piece IRL.

The splashy event was a promotion for the popular Monopoly at McDonald's game—where people peel Monopoly squares off of their fries and sodas, hoping to collect a full set and win cash—which has just returned to Oz. There is also a new app version of the game where customers can scan their cards on their smartphones.

Not only did Kendrick and Paton get to hang out in the pop-up hotel, they got to meet Mr. Monopoly himself, who acted as their concierge for the night. The real-life game piece measured 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) x 3 meters (9.8 feet) and had a custom Federation Square property marker in front of it. Inside, the bright red theme continued, with one notable exception: a gleaming white top hat hanging from a hook on the wall. Missing from the scene were the iron, the race car, the Scottie dog, and the shoe—but come on, does anybody ever want to be the shoe? In the morning, Kendrick and Paton were greeted with (what else?) Macca's coffee.

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Unfortunately, since this little hotel was just a pop-up, real life guests won't be able to book into it. But if you want to visit the world's most beautiful Mickey D's outpost, you'll need to head to Paris, where the world's single busiest location is also the prettiest. If you're already headed to Melbourne and looking for a quirky way to spend an afternoon, there's always the bar inspired by Seinfeld character George Costanza.