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Yotel Hotel
A cool concept in the hotel arena. A new hotel...it bills itself as a "radical hotel" is to open at Heathrow Airport for all those poor folks with absurd layovers (and you know and I know how absurd they can sometimes be). Called Yotel, you will be able to check in for "blocks of four hours" (at 25 pounds each) or to stay over night should your layover be THAT bad.
But this is no run-of-the-mill rent-by-the-hour flophouse. No, you will bask in sybaritic luxury, with a "Techno Wall with desk" that will allow you to charge and listen to your ipod, a flat screen TV with surround sound speaker system and (of course) free Internet and Wi-fi. There's more to the concept, but let me not spoil it for you. Go and check it out yourself.
Filed under: Business, Europe, United Kingdom, Hotels and Accommodations, Airlines
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Trav Jun 15th 2006 6:48AM
wow, cool hotel!
Wendy Knight Jun 15th 2006 3:17PM
I was one of those poor slobs with an absurdly long layover enroute to Sudan in 2003. In an obsure part of a terminal under renovation, I found a bench and promptly passed out only to be rustled awake by British police asking to see my passport. (Did I look Muslim?) If only Yotel were around then!
Anna Sibal Jun 16th 2006 3:54AM
When I first heard of the yotel a few weeks back, all I could think of is how much like a shoebox would it look like. Now I see that it isn't so bad after all.
GREG Jul 12th 2006 4:35PM
If you were muslim they would have put you in a room for free , searched your belongings, read your journal, and thrown ham sandwiches at you to eat. Until your solicitor came to get you out. Heathrow sucks. England sucks.