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A Pod Hotel For San Francisco Airport?
Ladies and gentlemen, get a couple Andrew Jacksons ready and prepare to rest your wary traveler's head upon something slightly more plush than a crappy gateside airport chair: there are hot little rumors coming out of California today that insist the airport pod hotel concept in the US — a la Yotel — may be on its way to San Francisco Airport.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
The airport is seeking a concessionaire to build and operate what it calls "sleep units" in the International Terminal. SFO officials don't want a traditional hotel, but rather a collection of tiny rooms - like Japanese-style pod or capsule hotels - that fliers could rent for a couple of hours between flights.
While some U.S. airports have full-service hotels on site, even connected to terminals, SFO would be the first to offer roomlets for rent.
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Yotel Was In On the 'Hotelicopter' Hoax the Whole Time
Oh, man, Yotel. You are brilliant.
This is one of the most clever marketing campaigns we've seen in a long time, and we've gotta gush: remember that whole Hotelicopter thing? You know, the silly rumor (accompanied by a silly video) bouncing around the Internet about the world's "first flying hotel" — a Soviet Mil V-12 that had supposedly been converted into a hotel that, like, flies?
We called the whole thing out as a hoax (and we're mighty proud of ourselves, as you can see) because it was obvious to any hotel geek that all the interior shots of the "Hotelicopter" were lifted straight off the Yotel website.
And, it turns out, this was all an elaborate (and awesome) April Fool's Day prank-slash-marketing campaign. And guess who was behind it? Yup. Yotel.
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Are Yotels Really the Best Business Hotels?
We didn't make it to the glitz and sparkle of the Business Travel World Awards night for 2009, but according to them the best business hotels in the world are Yotels.
Yotels. Really? We get it that Yotels can have very convenient locations (that is to say, at airports), and the price is a lot cheaper than fancier hotels. But the best business hotel? In our informal street survey of a few average business people, they certainly didn't agree--sorry, company bosses, but our contacts were after bigger and quieter rooms if the company's paying.
Just the same, the Yotel concept has some real positives going for it, so we say congrats to them for picking up this award. We're looking forward to seeing a few more Yotels around, like the proposed Abu Dhabi ones, before we decide if we're lovers or haters.
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Yotel Schiphol Less Than Perfectly Peaceful
It's now a few months since the newest purple capsule, the Yotel Schiphol, opened up in Amsterdam’s airport. We were wondering if anybody had been able to sleep well there, because that purple approach lighting always stresses us a bit.
Well, apparently experiences have been mixed. While some guests have been perfectly happy at the newest Yotel--notably including people who had already tried the Yotel Gatwick--others obviously found Yotel's Give Bed Peace a Chance campaign quite ironic. One guest complained of being able to hear every move the guest in the next room made, despite using the complimentary earplugs, and even worse:
These guests walk up and down the narrow corridors with screaming babies. They shout at one another from room to room. It is far from restful.
Our summary? The Yotel is just what it is: a not unreasonable airport alternative. With scarily boring corridors like the one in this picture, you can't expect perfection, right?
[Photo: Casualist]
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Yotel Helps You Afford That Ski Vacation After All
Where: United Kingdom
With today’s economy, we can’t imagine that many people will be taking off for a ski vacation this year. (And if you are, well, good fer you.)
If you’re like those of us tacking on a vacation to a business trip abroad—how else is there to afford a vaca?—you might want to check out Yotel’s “Stay to Ski” deal at its Heathrow and Gatwick properties.
On Friday through Sunday nights between now and April 2009 (the “end of ski season,” according to Yotel, hence the name of the promotion), the budget friendly chain is offering nightly rates of $75 for standard cabins and $100 for premium cabins. If you're wondering where there is to ski in London (don't worry, we did, too) the closest spot is Bromley Ski Centre in Kent, about an hour and 30 minutes outside London.
To get the rate, you’ll need to call +44 207 100 1100 or email customer@yotel.com.
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Yotel Wants You to "Give Bed Peace a Chance"
In honor of the opening of the third Yotel property this year, Gerard Greene (Yotel's CEO) and Simon Woodroffe (founder of YO!) campaigned to "Give Bed Peace a Chance" in the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (the location of the brand new Yotel Schiphol. Get it? Like John Lennon and Yoko Ono?
Forty years after John and Yoko campaigned to "Give Peace a Chance" in the Amsterdam Hilton in 1969, these dudes recrated the iconic image to market their hotel with this whole "bed peace" thing — it's cute and clever and such, but we would be remiss if we did not take a second to point you toward the real video of "Give Peace a Chance" over on YouTube.
And we assume that when the Yotel dudes use the word "peace", they are referring to the sort of peaceful sleep that results from knowing that, if you have a morning flight, you can quite literally roll out of bed and walk to your departure gate if you've spent the night here.
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Yotel's Next Property May Be 100 Feet Underground
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.
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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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Snapshot :: Yotel Schiphol Looks Like a Yotel
We already peeked in on the CitizenM airport hotel at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport today and now we can follow that up with a review from a reader on the newest airport hotel over there--Yotel Schiphol.
Hunter Walker over at Digital City sent us some snaps of the brand-new place. Guess what? It looks like a Yotel, meaning teeny tiny capsules rooms.
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Yotel Schiphol Opening on September 30th and Looking to Par-Tay
You know Yotel, the budget-friendly hotel chain located inside Gatwick and Heathrow airports with rooms that look (and are spaced) like cruise ship cabins? Well, they're opening a location at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on September 30 and are looking for some people to toss back a few drinks with in celebration.
Interested in imbibing? Through December, book one of the 57 cabins available at the hotel and get a free bottle of champagne. Just e-mail customer@yotel.com with your booking reference number and you'll be breaking out the bubbly before you can say "felicitaties." (That's Dutch for congratulations.)
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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.
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Yotel at Heathrow is London's Layover Hot Spot
Where: Arrivals Mezzanine Landside, Terminal 4, Heathrow Airport, Hounslow, Middlesex, United Kingdom, TW6 3AF
Turns out the best hotel in London isn't Hotel 41, Claridge's or even The Ritz London. It's the Yotel at Heathrow Airport.
OK, fine, so Heathrow's not exactly a vacation hot spot, but since its opening last year, the hotel has earned rave reviews from travelers faced with long layovers or early a.m. flights. Often compared to a cabin on a cruise ship, guests profess love for the property's comfy beds, free WiFi, rain shower and accessibility, in that you can book a room for as little as four hours.
As one reviewer put it: "Far better than the transit lounge benches!"
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