January 3, 2006

YOTEL!

by Guy Brighton

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Finally. This summer, the YO! group plans set to launch a 40 room hotel at Heathrow and a 50 room hotel at Gatwick this summer. A central London hotel will be launched in 2007 - followed by a number of international sites. To deliver "aspirational luxury at a low cost”, the rooms, called cabins, are only 10m² - but in that space they feature rotating double beds, pull down desks, monsoon shower, flat screen TV and wi-fi access. Rooms will be artificially lighted however,

The Cabins will be bookable in blocks of four hours to allow "delayed and transfer passengers to relax privately in a hotel environment." Honeymooning couples in transit too, we suppose. What we really find interesting is that each hotel room has windows that look out onto a ’street’ like corridor. Hotel rooms will cost

YOTEL
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