( CNN ) -- Emoya Luxury Hotel in Bloemfontein , South Africa , has been all over the blogosphere in recent weeks . But the exposure might not be the type that the `` unique accommodation experience '' had bargained for . Gizmodo called the hotel `` A Fake Slum for Luxury Tourists Who Do n't Want to See Real Poverty . '' Steven Colbert coined the word `` glumming '' -- glamorous slumming -- in his on-air dressing down . Christiane Amanpour examined it in the context of `` poorism , '' or poverty tourism . The hotel does sound like something out of a Saturday Night Live sketch . At Emoya 's Shanty Town , guests stay in a re-creation of an `` informal settlement '' -- shacks made of corrugated iron sheets . `` Millions of people are living in informal settlements across South Africa , '' reads the Shanty Town homepage . `` Now you can experience staying in a Shanty within the safe environment of a private game reserve , '' continues the website . `` This is the only Shanty Town in the world equipped with under-floor heating and wireless internet access ! '' Read : Underwater hotel room opens on remote African island . Each shanty in the `` town '' goes for 850 South African rand ( $ 82 ) a night , sleeps four people and has electricity and running water . In a clumsy play for verisimilitude , rooms are equipped with donkey geysers ( water heaters ) and long drops ( outdoor toilets ) . Scorn and outrage . The hotel promises to deliver `` the full African Experience . '' The concept hotel launched in March , according to the Emoya Estate 's Facebook page , but the backlash is recent . `` What were the creators of this thinking ? '' wrote commenter Whitney Trotta on the hotel 's Facebook page on December 4 . `` Have they ever seen poverty ? Or lived in it ? This is such a slap in the face to anyone who actually lives in a shanty town . Emoya Hotel & Spa you should explain yourselves . You are getting a horrible reputation worldwide for this . '' Emoya Hotel declined CNN requests for an interview or official comment for this story .
Emoya Luxury Hotel offers `` the only Shanty Town in the world with under-floor heating and wireless Internet access . Media response has been incredulity and outrage .