Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the man behind Easyjet, develops a new hotel concept: Easyhotel. Mid May 2005 the first will be opened in South Kensington, Londen (UK).
As with Easyjet the earlier the reservation the smaller the rate (from approx UK pnd 7,25 to 87/room).
Category: UK
English answer to sleeping in a wine barrel: Yotel
The designers of the Airbus have developped cabins that you can push and shove into a building.
Push 20 cabins in a warehouse and you have a Yotel.
Hoteliers can order the cabins at Yotel.
Fashion makers into hotels
Analik has her own fashion label and a shop in Amsterdam (9 streets shopping area).
Now she has purchased a property in Antwerpen where she will start a new shop and a hotel. In autumn she will open a hotel next to her Amsterdam shop. More to follow under the name: Miauw Suites.
Other fashion makers preceded her:
- Carla Sozzani with 3Rooms 10, Corso Como, above her boutique (a Real Boutique Hotel?) in Milano, Italy.
- Roger Saul, founder of Mulberry, with Charlton House in Bath, Summerset, UK.
- Bvlgari with Bvlgari Hotel in Milano, Italy.
- Donatella Versace with Pallazzo Versace south of Brisbane, Australia, which opened recently.