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Another Pop Up Hotel Just Hit London. Kind Of.
The best bit about these people is they're not Lastminute types, or models - they were drop ins from a nearby office, who proceeded to get sozzled on free champagne and pose.
Of course, the pop-up hotel in London we all want to get into right now is the Room For London, but if you don’t have the £300 – yes, £300 – spare to hit that up, there’s another pop-up that you might want to try out.
From now until 22 January, at the Getty Images Gallery tucked just off Oxford Street, Lastminute.com is running its own “pop-up hotel”. It launched on Friday, and we popped along last night to check it out.
First things first – big disappointment - it’s not an actual hotel, in that you can’t stay the night. Having said that, it’s not as fake and PR-ey as you’d expect. Most importantly, there’s lots you can get out of it.
The “hotel” consists of the main room – split into the bar, the lobby and, if you use your imagination, the spa (more on that later). Behind that is the bedroom and, beyond that, the bathroom.
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What's Up With a Room For London?
A look inside A Room for London's nautical interior
Now that London's hotel of-the-moment, the single-suite Room for London, has opened its nautically-themed doors, we're on a mad hunt for reviews. Creative or kitchy? Comfy or cramped? Opinions will filter through in drips and drabs, as ARFL's limited coterie of guests experience and check out of the Southbank-perched lodgings.
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In These Tough Economic Times, Mexico Puts Its Money On The Pop-Up Hotel
After learning last week that Design Hotels had been partially taken over by Starwood, we worried that the originality and flair of the former might start to be undermined. Starwood's great and all—but running a multi-brand corporation is certainly different than running a small, design-oriented boutique collection like Design Hotels.
For now, our worries have been put to rest by some exciting news about a new pop-up hotel being launched by DH this month in Tulum, Mexico. According to MSNBC.com, Papaya Playa is a 99-cabana resort on the Mayan Riviera, and boasts a spa, private suites, and several restaurants.
Unlike other flashy resorts along the Caribbean, this spot has an expiration date of May 6. So if you like what you hear, you'd better not dally!
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All Aboard, Mateys! There's Still a Chance to Book 'A Room for London'
You might remember a recent report we logged about London's pop-up, one room hotel, "A Room for London," set to open this January in the lead up to next summer's Olympic Games. Bookings for the floating suite of sorts—"perched" on the edge of the Thames River and offering a spectacular view of the Southbank—have already sold out from January through June.
Not surprising, considering the novelty factor and the fact that London hotel rooms in general are disappearing faster than you can say "tourist board windfall."
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Company Plans to Pitch Pop-Up Olympics Rooms at a London Royal Park
A pop-up hotel at Hyde Park? It might happen in time for the 2012 Olympics.
Pop-Ups are a common London phenomenon, usually appearing in ultra-trendy restaurant form. Pop-up hotels are less ubiquitous, but slowly making their way onto the local radar, especially in the lead up to the 2012 Olympics.
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Only Thirteen Days 'Til Cornwall's Pop-Up Hotel Goes Bye-Bye
When was the last time you went camping? If you have to think about it, it's been too long. Which probably means you're a little rusty on the whole 'great outdoors' thing. To ease yourself back in, consider a night or two inside one of the Pop-Up Hotel's yurt-style rooms in Cornwall, England.
Rather than some other outlandish, gimmicky pop-ups we've seen in Europe, these are meant to be practical open-air retreats, modeled after the classic bell tent design. Of course, the alfresco high-life only gets you so far: once the bad weather hits (as it's prone to do in sunny England!), that sloping canvas roof might not look quite so appealing!
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Four Years On, Still No Sanctuary Hotel But At Least It Has A Pop-Up Restaurant
We've been tracking the development of New York's Sanctuary Hotel since time immemorial, and by now we should know better than to make opening date predictions for the re-do of the Portland Square Hotel on 47th Street. But we're being promised a spring opening, so March seems like a good time to check in.
Bad news, though: reservations for the property, which has been under redevelopment since at least 2007, are now pushed all the way to July 1. A standard queen is quoted at $295 for that night; it should have the platform bed, peakaboo bathroom and free wifi we've been promised. A jump up to a $550-a-night suite will get you more space and an extra WC.
But wait! This room rate is 20 percent higher than the Portland Hotel is currently asking for July. We'll take some comfort in the form of a special event lined up for March 10: a pop-up restaurant from the Guerrilla Culinary Brigade. The theme for the three-night event is Pop Art, Pop Up, and 15-year-old chef Greg Grossman will be doing the cooking. (Yes. 15 years old. Imagine.)
Thursday's seatings are already sold out but Friday and Saturday, March 11 and 12, are still up for grabs. It's $95 per person for four courses.
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The Pop-Up Merlion Hotel Hits Singapore for the Biennale
The newest hotel to hit Singapore may well be its coolest: a single-suite pop-up property built around the city's iconic Merlion statue on the quay of Marina Bay. It's going up for the Singapore Biennale, which starts March 13.
Per the Conde Nast Traveler Tumblr:
A stay includes: a double-bed, bathroom, amenities, personalized room check-in, butler and breakfast at the Fullerton Hotel Singapore. Promo alert: the “I should stay at the Merlion Hotel” personal essay contest will give one person a complimentary night’s stay on the first and last nights of the Biennale (3/13 and 5/15).
Bookings in the Tatzu Nishi-designed art piece-slash-hotel will be open April 4 through May 5, with a one-night-only rule in effect and an early, early 8:30 a.m. check out. (Hey, at least breakfast is included at the nearby Fullerton Hotel.) The cost? A supremely reasonable $118 a night. Reservations are by phone only at (+65) 6332-9870, and you'll pay for your stay at the Singapore Art Museum.
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Get A Room of Your Own On London's South Bank
The site of A Room for London, overlooking the River Thames
More a concept space and cultural experiment than anything else, A Room for London is likely the smallest scale boutique "hotel" you'll ever encounter. The one room installation, commissioned as a part of London's 2012 Festival, will be located on atop the Queen Elizabeth Hall and open for public booking come September of this year.
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What A Load Of Garbage: The Rubbish Hotel
Where: Madrid, Spain
We’ve stayed in some gross hotels before but nothing quite as trashy as this one.
Corona’s Save The Beach Hotel is made out of 12 tons of rubbish gathered from beaches around the world. The idea behind the hotel is to raise awareness of the campaign to keep beaches litter free and stop people using the ocean as a garbage dump. However, like yesterday's trash, this hotel has already been hauled off to the junk yard.
The 'boutique' hotel was only open for four days in Madrid on January 19th but the five double rooms were fully booked for the whole time. A rubbish hotel that sells out--impressive!
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Mosaic's Pop-Up Design Wins 'Radical Innovation' Award at the HD Expo
A luxe-looking pop-up hotel.
When people talk about the "hotel room of the future," the conversation often involves outlandish designs, impossible architecture and unthinkable locations (space, undersea, atop a waterfall, etc.) So it's super-refreshing to hear that this year's Radical Innovation in Hospitality was awarded yesterday at the Hospitality Design Expo to an affordable, pop-up hotel room design called Mosaic from prolific design firm WATG.
Here's a description of Mosaic
An outgrowth of temporary relief shelter, the global Mosaic brand defines and delivers affordable, pop-up hospitality—prefabricated and portable to virtually anywhere. WATG invented Mosaic as entirely flexible, comprised of individually configured, modular Prisms, outfitted as needed as spas, salons, guestrooms, mini-homes (multiple Prisms such as kitchenette and bedrooms), or tented villas (an addition to a luxury resort at peak season).
Grouped together, Mosaic Prisms are attached organically to Mosaic Hubs that comprise and contain lobbies, restaurants, bars, lounges, and other amenities.
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'World's Smallest Pop-Up Hotel' To Take London By Storm
Much like kiddie bloggers, pop-up stores are all the rage in the fashion world. So we're not that surprised that the pop-up concept has shifted to hotels.
The latest pop-up hotel is billed as the "world's smallest pop-up hotel" from VisitLondon.com and Radisson Edwardian Hotels. But this isn't a cardboard box or anything--it's actually an airstream trailer that's staffed with a concierge, a check-in desk, room service, a flat-screen TV, a sound system, fridge and dining room area plus a double bed with "luxury bedding" and most importantly, en-suite facilities.
Passport Magazine reports that the mobile hotel will make its way around the popular tourist attractions in London from March 15-19 but the only way to win a night's stay here is by entering online. The competition closes on March 7 so hop to it! In the meantime, watch the video tour here.
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