Mini luxury hotel
Yotel, created by Simon Woodroffe (the man behind Britain’s successful Yo!Sushi restaurant chain) is a very small hotel room with only 10-square meter cabins!
LONDON, England (CNN) — While executive class plane seats are getting bigger, hotel rooms it seems are getting smaller.
Simon came up with the idea after he upgraded to business class while travelling by plane.
He says, “I … thought it would be great to make small capsule rooms for hotels,” to London’s Observer newspapaper.
Two already been opened in London’s main airports and Fifteen more are on the drawing board, including a London city center branch slated to open in 2007.
As you may have guessed, these hotels are targetted for passengers waiting for transit/connections or business people who would like to sleep before meeting.
The price for a room is 70 dollars per night, offering also a four-hr periods. The facilities include ofa 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.
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