If you visit the MenDan Wellness Hotel in Zalakaros, Hungary, then there is a good chance you will have paper money thrown at you by the hotel’s staff.

Last Thursday, the hotel gave away about $1,200 to its guests.

The money would have been used in the hotel’s marketing budget. However, the hotel’s marketing director decided that this would be a better way to spend it.

Many of the happy and surprised guests went on to spend the money at the hotel’s bar.

The hotel plans to throw money at its guests every week in 2012– at an undisclosed time.

(You can see the money being thrown at guests at about 45 seconds into the video below).

A billion pengo bank note from 1946.

After the war, Hungary experienced the worst case of hyperinflation in history.

Prices rose so much that new paper bank notes had to be printed all the time.

In fact, inflation became so bad that the number of zeros could not fit on the paper currency, the pengo, which was used at the time.

Simple English News would like to wish everyone a very happy, peaceful and successful new year.

The Hungarian Culture Ministry had egg on its face this week.

During national celebrations on Monday, the ministry wanted to give an award to film director Peter Forgacs.

However, it invited Peter Forgacs, an actor and theater director.

It was not until the minister was about to present the award that the error was recognized.

Words

to have egg on one’s face: to make an embarrassing mistake, to feel like a fool.