Happy Hotelier

I have uploaded my photos of the opening to Happy Hotelier’s Flickr Account. Some final observations:
The name
Correctly spelled the name is CitizenM and not Citizen M. I cannot change this in my prior posts because of the archiving system I am using here.
The Launch Party
After the Press conference there was the official opening. Rattan […]

The CitizenM Room has various neat design features:
Its 2 m long and 2 m wide Bed under the window with, on the west side of the hotel, nice views on one of the landing strips of Schiphol Airport:
Under the bed, like in yachts, there is a huge trunk size drawer where you can stash your […]

He looks a bit tired, but here is Rattan Chadha, the founder of CitizenM and former owner of the Mexx fashion company who opened the press conference.
Some quotes as a starter:

They started 4 years ago.
Rattan traveled more in his prior life than many in the audience of the well attended press conference will ever do […]

When I wrote about this now closed Berlin object of art/experimental one room billboard hotel in December 2007, I didn’t imagine that people would actually sleep in it. I visited it in March when I was in Berlin for ITB Berlin. Henri Roelings, who is one of the guys behind WiWiH (Who Is Who […]

The “New” TravelPod

The “New” TravelPod Interior

The Travelpod is Travelodge’s answer to a tent and can become a movable Pod Hotel.
From its July 28th, 2006 Press Release:
Travelodge has produced the ultimate accessory for lovers of outdoor entertainment. Forget waterlogged tents - now you can have for the first time, a mobile bedroom or ‘Travelpod’ to […]

Here we go again with my “Nothing Zen” series
A fellow TrendHunter, a very trend setting young lady from Down Under, younger than my 2 daughters (who, by the way, are two very trend setting young ladies themselves) is going to attend a conference at the VU university of Amsterdam in July and asks me whether […]

Where
Located on Death Strip, the piece of land along the former Berlin Wall where people used to be shot and now a waste land dedicated to sculptures, French artist Etienne Boulanger formed a one room hotel between billboards. It definitely is a Room without a View. A night costs a mere Euro 20.- (approx US […]

The Bar of the SO Hotel

The So Hotel
Hotel SO in Christchurch, New Zealand is another and massive (284 rooms of which 190 are pod size) Pod Hotel that opened on 6 November 2007. Room rates for a double start at an affordable NZ $ 89.
Its Team
The team is made up of people from industries as […]

When launched Qbic got featured on CNN. I didn’t see it myself. I red the transcript once, but thanks to fellow Blogger Época Alta I found the Youtube link:

The first Qbic Hotel is four months in operation now and its occupancy rates are reportedly over 90%.

Hotel Everland on top of the Palais de Tokyo

Wow! What a view from your room on the Eiffel Tower!

From the roof of the Leipzig Gallery of Contemporary Art the one room (one suite) Hotel Everland has moved to the roof of the Paris Palais de Tokyo where it will receive guests for an overnight stay […]

Last Saturday the reverent Dutch Daily Newspaper

NRC Handelsblad

published a story about one of the future locations of a Citizen M Pod Hotel in Amstelveen, a suburb of, and connected with, Amsterdam. It gives more insight about the format of the Citizen M Pod Hotel concept.
It appears that the neighborhood, a middle to up class […]

CitizenM Logo

Early 2008 will see a third (the others being the Qbic and the Yotel) Pod Hotel, CitizenM Hotels, opening at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

The 230 rooms (pods?) counting hotel is presently under construction.
Under the “Affordable Luxury” slogan:
CitizenM has partnered with internationally renowned architects Concrete, and European design giants Philips and Vitra to offer “affordable […]

A You Tube Yotel Preview

Us about Yotel:
Willem, founder and co author of our Dutch language Blog Weekendhotel Weblog wrote about Yotel’s plans already in 2004.
I translated the post for Happy Hotelier in English Answer to sleeping in a wine barrel: Yotel
To Schiphol
According to Zibb it is official: Yotel will open a 56 cubicle hotel […]

Photo (or artist impression?) thanks to the Trip
Advisor review mentioned below.

I announced the Qbic Hip Hotels concept in a post in November last year.
Since the news of their belated opening I have been looking for guest reviews for Qbic Amsterdam.
Now they are out:

One on Tripadvisor:
Wow!
I paid €59 per night (all taxes included), and got to […]

Begin November 2006 the launch of Qbic Hip Hotels was announced by Paul Rinkens, Rino Soeters en Marcel Voermans, the people behind Design hotel La Bergère and Hip Hotel St Martenslane, both in Maastricht, as the Dutch answer to cube alike hotel concepts as Easy Hotel, Yotel and Hotel Everland:
Qbic Hip Hotel Amsterdam […]