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Live inside Wuthering Heights: Airbnb recreates Catherine's pink bedroom

Escape to the windswept moors of 'Wuthering Heights' with a once-in-a-lifetime stay in Catherine Earnshaw's iconic bedroom, now available through Airbnb for three lucky couples.

Rafael Moreno
Rafael Moreno
·1 min read·Halifax, United Kingdom·55 views

Originally reported by Smithsonian Smart News · Rewritten for clarity and brevity by Brightcast

Emerald Fennell's new film adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights hits theaters February 13, and Airbnb is betting you'll want to step inside the story—literally.

The company has reconstructed Catherine Earnshaw's bedroom from the film in a 17th-century Jacobean mansion in West Yorkshire, England. Three couples will get free three-night stays starting February 20, complete with horseback riding across the moors, meals prepared on-site, and a visit to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in nearby Haworth.

The bedroom itself is deliberately unsettling. Pale pink carpet covers the floor. Walls are marked with veins. A mole is painted above the fireplace—a detail director Fennell included to reflect the Lintons' obsession with Catherine. Even the props feel strange: a "mop of hair" hangs from a table, a visual that lingers in the mind.

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The experience is housed at Holdsworth House, a hotel and restaurant in Halifax, with the bedroom built in an outbuilding on the grounds. Guests will also hear the soundtrack Charli XCX created for the film in an intimate presentation—a reminder that this isn't just a bedroom, it's a designed immersion into the film's sensual, turbulent world.

The timing taps into something real: searches for West Yorkshire Valentine's getaways among Gen Z travelers have jumped 59 percent, suggesting the moors themselves are having a moment. Whether that's driven by Brontë nostalgia, the new film, or simply people seeking dramatic landscapes is unclear—probably all three.

This isn't Airbnb's first literary-themed gamble. The company has experimented with Hollywood tie-ins before, including a Gladiator II experience in 2024. But there's something fitting about pairing Wuthering Heights—a novel obsessed with landscape, isolation, and the spaces where people live—with a stay in an actual room designed to collapse the boundary between fiction and experience.

Booking opens February 20. The three couples who get in will spend three nights in a pink room that shouldn't exist, in the real moors where Brontë walked.

Brightcast Impact Score (BIS)

This article showcases a unique opportunity for fans of the Wuthering Heights story to stay in a recreated set of Catherine Earnshaw's bedroom. While it offers an emotionally engaging experience, the impact and scalability are limited. The article provides good details and sources, but lacks expert validation or long-term data on the initiative's effects.

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Sources: Smithsonian Smart News

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