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EasyHotels Unveil New Room Design

Remember last week when we told you about easyHotel's efforts to significantly reduce the amount of orange in their hotel rooms? Well, we now have our first glance at that plan. (It's, er, above, in case you didn't notice.)

Here's a brief description of what you are looking at:

in-room luggage storage, improved clothes hanging facility, shelving and space for all those 'knick-knacks and new, more flexible, lighting options to improve comfort and functionality.

So what do you all think? Love it? Hate it? Don't care because you'd never be caught dead at an easyHotel anyway? Speak up in the comments below, because according to easyHotel, these changes came about from customer feedback.

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EasyHotels To 'Significantly Reduce' Their Orange Color Scheme

EasyHotel, much loved for its reasonably priced rooms but equally loathed for its cramped, cruise cabin-like quarters, is getting closer to being the budget-minded hotel chain of all of our dreams.

Starting with its London Heathrow property, the chain is redesigning its rooms to be more spacious, stylish and functional. Working with London-based architects ZMMA, new easyHotel rooms will:

...Aim to build on the existing room model with the addition of in-room luggage storage, improved clothes hanging facility, shelving and space for all those 'knick-knacks and new, more flexible, lighting options to improve comfort and functionality. Working with ZMMA, easyHotel have also introduced a new, contemporary and complementary colour scheme, which will see the hotel group significantly reduce the amount of trademark orange used in its bedrooms.

To which we say, thank God. That orange always seemed like the lighter shade of a scarlet letter for penny-pinching travelers.

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The Best Things at Hotels Are Free

Sometimes in life, it’s the little things, and it appears that Chic&Basic hotels in Barcelona and Amsterdam truly gets this.

For starters, their toiletries are funny. (Don’t deny that that soap didn’t make you chuckle.) It could be the crappiest soap you’ve ever used—something that smells like feet and dries out your skin—but who cares?! The packaging is so darn basic it’s unavoidably cute.

Second, the Chic&Basic web site is like free porn! Well, kinda. The site features a photo of two chicks lying in bed together, one with her arm suggestively draped over the other and another with two men and one woman in bed together. How chic!

However, you’ll have to click on the Castellano version of the site to see these suggestive photos—apparently people who only read English are too uptight for these sorts of things. Or, if you’re like us, too immature.

[Photo: Fatty Tuna]

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Yotel is Headed to Abu Dhabi

In the continuing saga of Abu Dhabi’s attempts to remind the world that Dubai’s not the only city in the UAE, there’s been a big announcement: Abu Dhabi is going to get two Yotels.

At least two Yotels, in fact, according to a recently-signed agreement. There’ll be a Yotel at the Airport and a Yotel at the Abu Dhabi City Centre, with the potential for more in the (further) future.

No word yet on when the Abu Dhabi Yotels should get up and running, but the locals are saying they’ll be “just perfect” for Abu Dhabi’s booming conference and business travel market, and for transit stays at the airport. While we don’t personally know anyone who’s ever needed to transit in Abu Dhabi, we can only guess that Yotel’s done their homework … but let’s put it on record that we think it’s a slightly strange expansion step for them.

[Photo: Ben Terrett]

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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 have been slightly against us I'm afraid -- too rough across the channel, too windy for the cranes, too much like hard work for the builders -- the list is endless. But judging by the amount of enquiries we've had already the new YOTEL is very much good news for travellers through Amsterdam.

Amsterdam's Schiphol airport is going to be THE place to stay pretty soon, thanks to the recent CitizenM opening and now the upcoming Yotel. Well it will be THE place to stay amongst budget travelers who want hip design and modern technology and who don't mind spending the night in a (well-designed) shoebox.