Yotel: World’s Smallest Airport Hotels
Yotel is the hotel of the future, opened in July 2007 in London Gatwick Airport’s South Terminal building. This luxurious cabin hotel has 46 cabins: 8 premium and 38 standard. Yotel is the brainchild of Simon Woodroffe, 55, a British entrepreneur and founder of the Yo! Sushi chain of Japanese fast-food restaurants in London, Paris and the Middle East. A second Yotel is taking bookings now in Heathrow, London.
The Standard cabins (7 square meters) feature a large single bed (2 meters-by-1-meter ) with full sitting height, a hand layered organic coir, latex and lambswool mattress for the best sleep ever with percale cotton sheets pillows and duvet. A 20” flat screen TV system with huge choice of films, TV, radio and games & internet. The fold out work desk and stool, doubles for unpacking and there is overhead hand luggage storage, suit bag hanging and storage areas for small pieces. A complete range of power and connectivity including free internet access and cosy local lighting. The bathroom includes a shower, revitalising all in one body wash, heated mirror and soft towels.
The Premium cabins (10 square meters) feature a double bed that deploys to a sofa at the touch of a button (think first class airline cabins), a hand layered organic coir, latex and lambswool mattress for the best sleep ever with percale cotton sheets pillows and duvet and a huge cushion for lounging. The study desk folds out of the techno wall with its own stow able chair and a complete range of power and connectivity including free internet access and cosy local lighting. Suit and dress hanging and storage for everything from your smalls to the loose change provide a place for everything and everything a place. A 23”flat screen TV system with huge choice of films, TV, radio, and internet. The luxury bathroom includes overhead rain shower, a hand shower, revitalising all in one body wash, heated mirror and soft towels .
You can take an order from a cabin service menu on screen or visit the galley where your cabin crew are on duty 24 hours a day.
Premium cabins cost from £40 for four hours (and from £7 per hour thereafter); standard cabins cost from £25 for four hours (and from £5 per hour thereafter).
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Looks a little compact, but how does that matter when you just want to get some shut eye for a few hours! Good idea this, and it beats the pants of trying to sleep in a uncomfortable chair in a noisy crowded airport lounge for sure.
Quite an interesting idea. The pricing is very attractive for people who are between flights and do not want to spend a whole lot of money for just a few hours of rest and privacy. Unlikely to work in places other than airports like these.
Sounds like the next step up from the capsule “coffin” hotels that you find in Tokyo. But in London, it’s going to be super expensive!
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Looks awesome. It is an excellent example for places which have space crunch. Very compact, still full of amenities. Great stuff. Next time I go to London I will surely visit Yotel
Fantastic. Lots of space comparing to a standard Japanese tube and still does the job. great post.
As a frequent traveler, I think this is a fantastic ideas. Especially for international travelers that have very long layovers. Great post!
I like this idea alot. I’m certainly less likely to lose things in a hotel room that small.
As long as the bed is really comfortable, the shower had good water pressure, the room is clean, and I can get the temperature down to about 65 degrees, I’d probably be happy in there.
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I was just in London but wasn’t informed of such an establishment. It seems like a good idea for those long layovers. I’ll have to try it out the next time I’m out there.
Thanks!
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