At the X-Mansion Airbnb, you don’t have to take out the trash. You don’t have to pile your linens in the laundry room, or start the dishwasher before you leave, or make a pasta dinner using half a skillet and a pair of melted tongs. There’s no cleaning fee—it’s not that kind of Airbnb.
In fact, the X-Mansion Airbnb isn’t totally an Airbnb, nor is it really the X-Mansion. It is fully a mansion, at least halfway an Airbnb, and, depending on your level of fandom, imagination, and access to edible marijuana, a completely believable re-creation of an iconic cartoon home/school for gifted youngsters. It has an artistically rendered 2D interior that makes the house look like it was lifted directly off the pages of a comic book.
There are Adamantium claw marks next to a romantic photo of Jean Grey and Scott Summers, giant portraits of all your favorite X-Men lining the many grand halls, and an honest-to-god Caboodle full of Wet n Wild lip glosses in Jubilee’s bathroom. Plus there’s a groundskeeper named Chris, who isn’t actually a groundskeeper, but rather a chef from New York and the only nonactor in a ragtag cast of performers who act as the house’s off-brand X-Men characters. Altogether, these elements make the experience of staying in the X-Mansion feel like some combination of participating in a murder mystery party, being a guest on Below Deck , LARPing around a very intimately sized Disneyland, and getting pulled into a portal to Looney Toon Land like Micha.