Cocooning
What are your travel hotel requirements? Hotel? Pension? Apartment? Hostel? Campsite? How about a pod?
CitizenM opened their first hotel at the end of June in Amsterdam. They are targeting the luxury budget market with their pod hotel room concept. In a 14 square meter room you’ll get an extra-large king-size bed, a wall-to-wall window, an LCD television with free movie channels and free WIFI Internet. They are touting their super bed and bath linens and their down-to-earth, friendly style. The hotels are specially built to their specs; in a style they call “Industrial Flexible Demountable.”
Prices however, aren’t the cheapest. They do have cheaper rates on the weekends, which is good for leisure travelers, but an October stay would set you back 84 EUR a night; not including breakfast. The Amsterdam hotel is also located at Schiphol Airport, which means you’d have a roughly 20 minute train ride into town.
Right now, the Schiphol location is the only one. And it was probably a smart choice launching in Amsterdam – it’s a good city to be experimental in. Remember this post on the city’s fast food vending machines? The chain’s second hotel will also be Amsterdam – near the city’s World Trade Center. No other definite openings are listed on their website, but they say they have interest in building pods in a ton of European cities including, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Stockholm, Milan and Paris.
Photo Credit: CitizenM
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