Goodbye mini bar, hello mini room

[warrens]

The coming year will see the launch of Yotel, a new chain of budget hotels which, although not quite as diminutive as Japan's capsule hotels, will see business travelers crammed into 10-square-meter cabins.

"I ... thought it would be great to make small capsule rooms for hotels," he told London's Observer newspaper. Two Yotels are expected to open in the summer at London's main airports. A 40-cabin hotel will open first in Heathrow Terminal 4 followed by a 50-cabin facility at Gatwick's South Terminal.

Costing roughly 70 dollars a night (but also bookable for four-hour periods), the rooms are aimed at passengers waiting for connections or those who want to sleep or work before a meeting.

Each soundproof cabin will contain a sofa that converts into a double bed, a pull down desk, closet space, adjustable mood lighting, a shower, wireless Internet, an iPod connection and a flat-screen TV.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/12/28/budget.hotel/index.html

This is a pretty cool idea. For those times when you're traveling and just need a place to sleep and unwind, this would be great. They also have room service.

[AllegroRondo]

1. Bookable for 4 hour periods

and soundproof?

Say no more!

[...of J.Temperance]

6. Greetings from the Mutually Dirty Minded Association :) n/t

[yknot]

7. Eew, bring a blacklight and a bucket of lysol n/t

[Warpy]

2. As long as they eliminate those bedspreads

that only get washed every six months (whether they need it or not, yuck), they'd be just fine with me.

I actually dislike those big echoey rooms with mass produced "art" bolted to the walls. Small would be better. Throw in soundproofing, and I'm a customer for life.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

3. Ha! LOL I make sure the hotels I stay at wash their sheets

Which ones are you going to? :scared:

[Warpy]

5. They all wash the sheets

It's those comforter/bedspread things that never get washed. That's a universal, by the way, from cheapass mom and pop places in the boonies to the big fancy hotels in big cities.

What hotels do YOU go to?

[tridim]

4. I stayed in one of those in NYC wile looking for a job

The room was about 6 feet wide by 10 feet long yet had full amenities. It was actually not too bad and worked perfectly for one person. Much better than the "cheap" hotels in the city. Cheap usually meant no TV, no phone, no bathroom and stinky bedding.