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Design Hotels Pet Favorite: The Hotel Screen's Different Rooms Gives Guests Different Experiences
December 7, 2007 at 2:21 PM | 0 Comments
Dipping into the new members of the design hotels group again, a new hotel in Japan has caught our attention. Opening on December 13, the Hotel Screen in historic Kyoto, north of Osaka, is a 13-room hotel that sounds pretty unique.
Hotel Screen is designed around the concept that "no two guests will have the same experience on any given night". That means that each room was designed by a different designer so you could, theoretically, spend almost two weeks getting a completely different experience each night.
As well as the varying rooms, guests can experience the open-air sky lounge (kind of a fancy name for a garden with seats, we suppose) and buy the hotel's very own soundtrack CD.
Once a week, in a nod to the environment, the restaurant in Screen has "Candle Night" to save electricity, although presumably the kitchen still operates in full light. They turn out "Kyoto nouvelle cuisine" which is a mix of traditional Kyoto-style food and French cuisine.
It's probably pretty tasty, but you just won't be able to to see it so well if you happen to eat there on Candle Night.
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