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With A Little Luck, You Could Snag a $47 Room At Cassa Hotel
2012 is Year of the Dragon, and In case you didn't know, the dragon is a pretty big deal on the Chinese zodiac. So, to match the excitement of the new year, New York's Cassa Hotel & Residences is running a pretty nifty Chinese New Year promotion.
Guests who "like" Cassa on Facebook (and prove it by showing their computer or smartphone to the Front Desk) will be given a fortune cookie. Which at first sounds like not such a great trade-off. But hidden inside one of the fortunes is a voucher that will let you book your next stay for only $47.10/night—roughly 80% off the normal rate. All those limestone tubs and minimalist rooms just by eating opening a cookie? This might be our new favorite holiday.
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Hey Look, A New Yotel. For Your Fish.
OK, so Christmas is still a long way off (we don't usually get in the spirit until these start popping up in hotel bars), but in case you wanted to get a head start on your shopping, this one's a winner. You know those times when you look at your fish tank and just think, 'I can do better'? Well, now's your opportunity to make things right: Umbra has designed a modern-looking, compact fish "hotel" and it's selling on Amazon for $27.
Customer reviews—unlike those for certain human hotels we've heard about recently—seem pretty positive, with most people approving the cool mod design and relatively low maintenance. It's practical. It's minimalist. It's easy to clean. It's the betta's equivalent to a night (or a lifetime) spent in a Yotel.
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Piecing Together Yotel, One Brunch Invitation At A Time
Last time we checked in on Yotel Times Square—aka the $10 hotel for ants—the lobby bathroom was suffering from some major door malfunctioning. They appear to have addressed the problem, and have since added a rather interesting moose to the lobby decor. But we were left wondering to ourselves: what is actually going on over there?
After opening to such fanfare with a mammoth performance piece that literally spanned 100 rooms, we haven't exactly heard much from them since. Oh, except for this bizarre Sunday brunch invitation that showed up in our inboxes yesterday. A baby, gnawing on a plate, with the caption: "Eat Yo! Brunch". Well, it's not a jelly doughnut pancake, but they have our attention!
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The Yotel at Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport is Doing Brisk Business
All it seems we talked about in spring was Yotel NYC this and Yotel NYC that. Well, there are other Yotels out there, you know—more budget-friendly ones. The thing is, yu have to go to Europe and the UK to lay your head upon their pillows.
Unlike the NYC Yotel which sits just west of Times Square, you'll find the three other Yotels exclusively at airports: London-Heathrow, London-Gatwick and Amsterdam-Schiphol. Wanna see inside? No problem—we've already done a full video tour, photo gallery and review of one of the smallest "cabins" at the Heathrow Yotel, but last week we spotted the elusive Amsterdam Yotel!
Why elusive? Well, this Yotel sits in Schiphol Airport after security, so you've got to be in transit to somewhere outside the Schengen countries to claim a room. Luckily we were this time, but after playing around on the self-serve kiosk, discovered that the whole Yotel AMS was booked up full. Not even a brief 4-hour block was available. For this reason, better check ahead before setting off.
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What Is Up With The Yotel's Moose?
The moose from in front...
Just what does a hotel whose atrium contains a luggage-storing robotic arm have to gain by the unexplained addition of two very weird moose statues into the lobby area? Everything, apparently. We first noticed this slightly off-putting creature when we first visited Yotel's opening festival, 100 Under 2. We scratched our heads then, and we're scratching them now.
What is this? Stationed in the middle of the lobby, directly in front of the elevators (when you step out, that smile hits you like a slap in the face), the moose creature feels out of place and arbitrary. But that must be why Yotel likes it. Because, after speaking to both staff members and the hotel's official representation, we learned the moose are here to stay. And yes, there's more than one of them.
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$10 Buys You a Yotel NYC Room If You're Really, Really Small
Well, isn't someone really proud of their hotel room design? That's right; the just-opened Yotel New York is already selling souvenirs of itself, from the banal (water bottles) to the intricate (these mini room models).
For $10, you take home a flat panel of metal, pre-cut to fold into a 3-D model of one of the Yotel's Premium Cabins. It's far cheaper than springing for the real rooms, which begin at $149 per night, but then you can't even fit your big toe in the bed of the mini-room.
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Bad News About Yotel's Bathroom Doors: They Don't Lock
Don't plan on getting any privacy at Yotel—especially when you're in the bathroom. Despite an expertly calibrated luggage robot and all-white entrance hall reminiscent of The Jetsons, the design team responsible for the lobby appears to have left out one tiny detail: the bathroom doors don't actually lock. But first, a little back story.
Last Friday, we visited the hotel's new tripartite public space, which features—get ready for it!—a restaurant, an airport lounge-inspired lobby bar, and a sprawling wraparound outdoor terrace. Interestingly, the venue has been dubbed FOUR, though we could only count three separate spaces (unless they're counting the private fishbowls club cabins?) But who are we to split hairs. The wooden floor that had been cleared last week for the 100 Under 2 performers was once again populated by the low tables and cushion seats that define DohYo, and the chopstick-wielding diners were in full force.
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See the Yotel New York's Fancy Schmancy Yobot in Action!
It's what you've been waiting for: the Yotel NYC's Yobot in action! This mechanical arm is a one-of-a-kind creation specifically for the Big Apple's first Yotel, which is actually also the first Yotel outside of airport grounds (the first three are at London-Heathrow, London-Gatwick and Amsterdam-Schiphol).
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A Look at The 100 Performances Last Night Inside The Yotel Times Square
If Yotel Times Square is setting the tone for a new culture of hospitality entertainment, then we're very excited to see what else it's got up its yo-sleeves. Last night, the purple giant hosted a series of one hundred performances that all took place inside one hundred different rooms of the hotel's top four floors. Kind of like a cross between a haunted house and a peep show (this is Times Square after all!), everyone was encouraged to step inside the rooms and explore, but no one ever quite knew what to expect.
Here's how it worked: guests were issued a "mission card" upon arrival and assigned a "festival captain" who, at the scheduled time, would lead the groups of 10-15 lucky souls to the ongoing carnival taking place upstairs. The plan was for each group to be shepherded along as a consolidated unit, but the reality was much more difficult to control. Once unleashed into the madness, all sense of order truly vanished.
Have you ever walked down the hallway of a hotel whose rooms have all been left completely open? Probably not, which is why things got a little exciting last night. Each of the one hundred marked doors continually led into some new configuration of half-clothed, keyboard-wielding, tarot-card-shuffling, beat-boxing, and—yes—pillow-fighting, umm....creative types.
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The Yotel New York Opens Today, With Rooms Booked Up Until Next Thursday
Today. Is. The. Day. Yotel New York has finally opened to the public, though with limited amenities as this is the soft-opening period. The announcement came earlier today on Yotel's official Twitter account, @YotelHQ, and guests should be arriving this afternoon for their very first sleep on the motorized beds of Premium Cabins. First Class Cabins and the VIP suites are not quite ready for their close-up, but trust that we'll keep tabs on them and let you know when it's cool to book one of the rooms with their own terrace hot tubs!
If you'd like to get in on the Yotel freshness, the website is only showing available rooms beginning next Thursday night, June 9. The price? $349. If you can keep your pants on and wait until the night of June 12th however, the rate drops a full hundred down to $249, which sounds so much better for the area being called "Times Square West."
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Inside the Yotel New York, Two Weeks Before It Opens for Good
Forget what you might know about Yotels overseas; those capsule-like rooms are officially Yotel 1.0. What New York is about to get next month, when the first Yotel in the Americas debuts, is Yotel 2.0—a 669-room ode to efficiency and modernity. In fact, the hotel is based on the concept of airplane classes; a Yotel "Premium Cabin" equates to Economy Class, "First Class Cabins" follow, and the VIP Suites are of course where you want to be...especially when you walk in to discover a round, rotating bed, 3-sided fireplace and sprawling outdoor deck with hot tub.
Yes, Yotel has evolved miles from their airport terminal hotels to create something even jaded New York is buzzing about. Just wait until the restaurant and bars open...
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Yobots, Lady Gaga's Papa and a Digital Nomad's Wet Dream are Coming to the Yotel
Without a doubt, we are geeking out over the arrival of Yotel Times Square, set to open on June 1st, thanks to the combination of affordable (somewhat) lodgings with pure high-tech fun like touch screen check-ins, retractable beds, free WiFi and mood lighting. Oh and the Yobot.
Yes, when the Yotel opens it will have a robot on site whose sole job is to store your luggage into lockers in the lobby. The NY Times reports:
It’s just a robotic arm, not humanoid like [The Jetsons' robot] Rosey, and it’s as much entertainment for passers-by as it is utilitarian. Your bag goes on a slab that Yobot then picks up and slides into one of 133 lockers, usually with a flourish of dipping, twisting and other acrobatics. You get back a bar-coded ticket, which you insert into the system when you want Yobot to return your bags.
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