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Yotel's Next Property May Be 100 Feet Underground

November 26, 2008 at 10:00 AM | by Jenna | 2 Comments

In an apparent departure from the norm that could prove to be totally cool or unthinkably creepy, the folks behind European budget-friendly capsule hotel chain Yotel have their eyes on central London's underground Kingsway Tunnels to be the site of the next property. Like, you'd sleep undergound. Which — if we may go there for a second — is kinda like being dead. Except you're alive, and you're in a hotel.

According to the Telegraph, the tunnels in question run 100 feet underground and the system of tunnels have been used in the past as an air raid shelter, a reserve war room, and a public record office where secret documents were stored.

Yotel's marketing director has quite the vision for the tunnel-hotel thing. As quoted in the Telegraph:

“It’s a winner for everyone from clubbers to business people who just want somewhere to have a shower and crash after a big night out. They don’t need a view or a gym or a restaurant, all of which you are paying for on your room rate at other hotels. With our rates from just £20 per person per night, staying there would work out cheaper than a cab home.”

Seriously, picture it: you're drunk after a crazy night out in London, and you can just crawl into a tunnel 100 feet underground and go to bed. Like a groundhog. Or a mole. As long as you draw parallels to animals and not morbid things, this is kind of awesome, right? Yeah, your mind's totally blown right now.

[Photo: Getty via Telegraph]

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  1. izzy

    HotelChatter Member

    awesome!

    their rooms don't always necessarily have windows anyway, so this isnt a huge departure for them.  i think it is a genius use of space that no one had any other use for (parking garage?) It is moves like this that allow them to build a business model that charges like $35 a night - to bad they cant do this in other city's (example in germany and the USA it is not a legal hotelroom without a window) could you imagine a yotel in the middle of central park!
    November 26, 2008 at 11:41 AM
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  1. amandak

    HotelChatter Member

    tunnel hotel

    I vote for "totally cool" over "unthinkably creepy". I wouldn't want to live my life underground but a night or two makes for a much better story to tell back home than a regular overground hotel ...
    December 1, 2008 at 4:33 AM
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