Inside £168-a-night brothel England followers booked out forward of Euros
The host city for England’s crunch Euro 2024 match with Slovenia boasts one of Europe’s finest cathedrals – but is also home to the continent’s biggest brothel.
And at €199 (£168.61) including breakfast, a stay at the 12-story, bright pink Pascha comes in cheaper than many hotel rooms in the city, making the brothel a cost-effective choice for England fans in need of a bed after the Group C clash.
Yesterday the brothel’s manager declined to comment on how many of his 120 bedrooms had been rented to England fans tonight.
Three Lions fans travelling to Cologne for the big match had reportedly snapped up every room.
During the Mail’s brief visit, one punter was seen casually strolling into Pascha’s dark L-shaped entrance hall, partially lit by blue neon LED strips on its staircase. Another was then seen leaving, followed soon afterwards by a woman in her 20s, wearing a vest top and skirt.
Three Lions fans travelling to Cologne for the big match had reportedly snapped up every room (File image)
At €199 (£168.61) including breakfast, a stay at the 12-story, bright pink Pascha (pictured) comes in cheaper than many hotel rooms in the city
A sign inside the building – which also boasts a nightclub as well as the brothel and hotel rooms – explained the €5 (£4.23) brothel entrance fee helped the establishment to provide reasonably-priced drinks for its clientele.
Two burly men were stationed at cash desks in the foyer.
According to accommodation booking site Hotels.com, a room for one person at Cologne’s Urban Loft hotel costs, £311 (€367) tonight, while another four-star hotel, the Dorint An der Messe comes in at £273 (€322.08), Novotel Cologne City is £328 (€ 387.10), while art’otel Cologne(corr) is £343 (€404.67).
But rooms were also available for slightly less than Pascha’s overnight rate – a room can be had at the three-star Innception(corr) Hotel for £192 (€ 226.60) or just £122 (€ 144) at Hotel Triton, also a three-star establishment.
Pascha, the brothel first reported on by the Sun lies on a street named Hornstrasse, and is hemmed in by three rail lines in a district formerly dominated by factories.
Next door is a bratwurst takeaway called Wurst Willy, while directly opposite is another brothel. Somewhat incongruously, just yards along the same road is a Lidl supermarket.
During the Mail’s brief visit, one punter was seen casually strolling into Pascha’s dark L-shaped entrance hall, partially lit by blue neon LED strips on its staircase.
The host city for England’s crunch Euro 2024 match with Slovenia boasts one of Europe’s finest cathedrals – but is also home to the continent’s biggest brothel (File image)
Germany made buying sex, selling sex, pimping and brothel-keeping legal in 2002 and has since been flooded by sex workers, mainly from Eastern Europe.
As well as brothels, legalisation also heralded ‘naked’ clubs with a sauna, bar and bedrooms and ‘flat-rate’ brothels where one fee buys sex with multiple women.
Drive-in ‘sex boxes’ looking like large sheds or stables, known as verrichtungsboxen – which translates roughly as ‘getting things done boxes’ – also sprung up.
The prostitution industry in Germany is now worth an estimated £15bn annually.
Pascha filed for bankruptcy in September 2020 as a result of coronavirus legislation in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia which temporarily outlawed prostitution.
It was bought by a Chinese businesswoman for £10m in 2021.
