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Mobile Transformer Hotels
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Festivals, fairs and other events often require lots of free space to serve as a venue. As a result, they are often held on the outskirts of town where, unfortunately, there aren't too many hotels to house the masses who attend.
Hotelmóvil, a new Spanish company, has come up with a simple solution to this problem; bring a hotel to the masses.
Hotelmóvil is an ingeniously designed 18-wheeler which can motor up to an outdoor event, find a parking spot, and then transform into an 11 room hotel with the push of a button and a few hydraulic lifts.
Eight bedrooms reside on the bottom floor while three luxury suites, which can sleep five people each, are located on a second floor. Each room has its own bathroom, air conditioning, TV, DVD player and internet access.
Very cool! Imagine attending the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and actually having a nice place to stay instead of camping in the mud.
But, you'll have to wait. Hotelmóvil won't roll off the assembly lines until 2008.
(via Business 2.0, but not yet online)
Filed under: Hotels and Accommodations, Camping
Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
tascha Aug 13th 2007 2:37PM
Screw making EVERYTHING ADA compliant. Sometimes there are restrictions as to what a person can do. Gee i get sick of it
cake Aug 13th 2007 7:28PM
What about larger ahem... obese people? Would they be supported and would it cause the upper floor to sink in, would it cause the hotel to tilt? Stairs to break?
Tina Aug 14th 2007 12:21AM
In response to comment #11 FRICKEN AMERICANS? Where the heck do you think you are? And another thing How did you conclude that all the people that were making comments/complaints were/are from American nationality....In my opinion its people like you is the reason we should never have opened any borders or dropped any walls.........GO HOME...This is America and we have freedom to complain it is called FREEDOM OF SPEECH..........Damn
Rocket Scientist Aug 14th 2007 8:05PM
It seems to me that this might be a good thing for Airlines to have in the reserve long term parking lots. I can tell you from past experience being stuck at a airport due to a storm or other such problem, and having to sleep in a chair or bench for 24 to 48 hours because the local hotels are full sucks. The airlines could charge an additional small fee (because they never give you anything free) to house you until your flight is ready to resume. The airlines probaly would not make any money off these, but would cover their cost for the labor to clean an remake these rooms. The only thing they would get out of it would be good will for at least trying to help out their customers. Just a thought.
Of course the reality of it is...., the airlines do not give a crap.