Yotel Gatwick
In the 21st Century luxury will be available to everybody at the right cost and here is a taste of that future. We've used the language of business class airlines because they know how to use a small space and some of the technology of luxury yachts to create our three tier cabin system.
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Hotel Coverage: Yotel Gatwick
Are Yotels Really the Best Business Hotels?
We didn't make it to the glitz and sparkle of the Business Travel World Awards night for 2009, but according to them the best business hotels in the world are Yotels.Yotels. Really? We get it that Yotels can have very convenient locations (that is to say, at airports), and...
February 12, 2009
Yotel Helps You Afford That Ski Vacation After All
With today’s economy, we can’t imagine that many people will be taking off for a ski vacation this year. (And if you are, well, good fer you.) If you’re like those of us tacking on a vacation to a business trip abroad—how else is there to afford a vaca?—you might...
December 18, 2008
Yotel Schiphol is Coming This September
Yotel is going to be opening up at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport soon but probably not soon enough according to the hip capsule hotel chain.From the latest Yotel newsletter called YoteleGraph: Yotel at Schiphol...Is nearly there we promise -- the latest news is that we expect to open in September, things...
July 29, 2008
Yotel at Heathrow Airport Opening Tomorrow
We're used to things moving slower than planned in the world of Yotels, or perhaps for hotels in general. After the capsule-extraordinaire style Yotel Gatwick finally opened up earlier this year, we had been expecting the new Yotel Heathrow to be hot on its heels. We were once even...
December 06, 2007
Yotel Review:: We Have Bed Retraction
Here's part two of a video that HotelChatter's UK Correspondent Benji Lanyado shot at the infamous Yotel Gatwick. Yesterday, after demonstrating that at least three people can fit inside a Yotel room, we teased you with the hint of a possible bed retraction and guess what? It works! Benji's full...
October 04, 2007
Yotel Review: Bed Retraction Starts Here
Here's part one of a video that HotelChatter's UK Correspondent Benji Lanyado shot at the infamous Yotel Gatwick. The good news is that even though this room is teeny tiny, you can still manage to fit three people in there. At least standing up. The bad news is you...
October 03, 2007
Yotel to Get Some Competition from CitizenM
Yotel has made a big splash on the airport hotel scene with its capsule hotel rooms that you can rent hourly or for a night. The first one opened in the UK at the London Gatwick airport with others expected at Heathrow this fall and Amsterdam in early 2008. But...
September 12, 2007
Are Yotels Really Convenient or Simply Too Small?
Gatwick Airport's Yotel has been open for business for a few weeks now, so we're curious about how this sushi-spin-off capsule hotel is working out. And so far, the response is mixed.From the first day, the Gatwick Yotel started getting spontaneous bookings from passengers stranded by flight cancellations, as...
July 17, 2007
London's Swinging Hotel Scene: Capsule Chain Yotel Finally Opens in Gatwick
This week we are focusing on the latest news and reviews on the London Hotel Scene. We'll be looking at budget hotels, Wimbledon hotels, The Concert for Diana hotels and more. So if you've got a London hotel story or query, then c'mon now--fill us in.They'd better be worth the...
June 25, 2007
Yotel Not Taking Reservations for Before July 1
Aside from 6 Columbus, another hotel opening we are waiting on this June is Yotel, the British capsule hotel chain set to debut in Gatwick Airport this month.A while back we got a frosty reaction from the head of Yotel for dissing the chain's expansion plans. But in our defense,...
June 04, 2007
Yotel Expands Before It Opens
The coming-soon capsule hotel that branched out from the YO! Sushi chain, Yotel is talking about expansion before the first of its sites are even open. Proudly boasting that Yotels will open inside London's Gatwick airport in May June and Terminal 4 of Heathrow sometime this summer, the press releases...
April 16, 2007
Yotel Set to Open This Summer at Heathrow
Just like their Mini Cooper cars, the Brits are embracing small hotel rooms too. The much-talked about budget hotel-chain Yotel Gatwick will open this summer at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 4, with 10-square-meter cabins. Similar to the Japanese-style capsule rooms of easyHotel the rooms will cost about $70 a night,...
January 02, 2006
Yotel Photos Now Available
Found photos of London's spacey Yotel prototype online at Hospitality Net. If the real thing looks anything like these shots, guests may be in for a treat -- when the Yotels eventually materialize. Yotel, a futuristic, UK spin on Japan's capsule hotel concept planned by Simon Woodroffe of YO!...
November 19, 2004
Yotels are coming to the UK
We have talked before about capsule hotels, you know those little claustrophobic cabins that can be booked by the hour, but now, one crazed entrepreneur is planning on peppering the UK with "Yotels". Simon Woodroffe, of Yo Sushi fame, (yet another Simon from across the pond), is the mastermind...
September 14, 2004
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