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Save/ShareTomorrow, a 32 room-hotel opens in London's Heathrow airport, offering free Wi-Fi and other perks. Yotel rates start at $50 for four hours (but more typically about $110). Inspired by the smart way first-class airline seats use space, Yotel offers a pod that measures between 75 and 107 square feet. Each pod has a double bed, bathroom with shower, pull-down desk, flat-screen TV—plus free Wi-Fi. Earlier this summer, Yotel opened a hotel in Gatwick airport. At last, the word is getting out that budget travelers like a bit of style.
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my pod-hotel dream is getting ever closer.
Posted By katy on December 5, 2007, 4:15 PM
A delight that you have discovered this property! Starting January 08, we're giving all East Africa bound passengers a 4-hour stay at the Heathrow Pod Property en-route to Kenya and beyond. Makes enormous sense since the layover time to Africa when connecting from Virgin Atlantic Airways to Kenya Airways is lengthy, particularly since the Heathrow location is in Terminal 4 (the departure terminal for Kenya Airways means passengers HAVE TO go to Terminal 4 anyway for their departure, the airlines interline their luggage) and they can spend 4-hours in a pod on us before continuing the journey or visiting the city of London. Brilliant concept -- a win/win situation for the property, the provider and the passenger -- make that win/win/win!
Posted By Kenneth Hieber on December 5, 2007, 8:45 PM
I stayed in something like that at Charles DeGaulle airport in 1999. It was wonderfully convenient, but I hear that it no longer exists. Does anyone know why? Perhaps now it will be reestablished!
Anne
Posted By Anne Finer on December 6, 2007, 1:55 PM