Yotel To Open Legit, Full-Service Hotel in Times Square in 2011
Finally! We've been wondering when Yotel--the airport capsule hotel chain at Gatwick, Heathrow and Schiphol that boasts purple mood lighting and retractable beds--would be expanding and we've just got word that Yotel will hit New York City in 2011.
The first Yotel out of Europe will open at 42nd Street and 10th Avenue and will have a nearly 700 hotel rooms (669 to be exact.) It will be part of a larger mixed-used building owned by Related Properties with design by the Rockwell group in collaboration with Softroom, a Frank Gehry-designed theater adjacent and even residential units as well.
Yotel Gatwick Airport
But perhaps the biggest news about the Yotel Times Square is that it will be full-service, complete with a restaurant, spa, meeting rooms, a club lounge and the largest outdoor terrace space for an NYC hotel. As for the guestrooms, they will be twice the size of Yotel's normal airport capsule rooms. But they will still be small, only about 170-sq.ft.
Starting rates are expected to be $200 to $250. Let's hope they put in one of these new Jetsons bed too!
[Top Photo: Yotel/Second Photo: Benji Lanyado for HotelChatter]
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