Happy first birthday Yotel Gatwick

YOTEL, the uber cool, first class air travel inspired hotel is celebrating its 1st birthday on 8th July 2008, 12 months after the opening of its first location at London Gatwick, which pioneered in-terminal airport accommodation that makes no compromise on style, comfort and affordability.

In celebration of this event, YOTEL is offering guests a special price for their standard cabins of just £49 for an overnight stay throughout the month of August – a perfect reason to relax, refresh and recharge with YOTEL before jetting off on a summer holiday.

Since its launch YOTEL Gatwick has sold 18,550 cabins and provided over 180,300 hours of sleep, entertainment and relaxation to thousands of guests travelling through Gatwick airport. The luxury, premium convertible beds have gone up and down over 3000 times and YOTEL’s dedicated ‘cabin keeping’ team have cleaned over 23 acres of mirror and glass! YOTEL Gatwick has also been joined by sister hotels YOTEL Heathrow and the soon to open YOTEL Schiphol, their first international offering opening later this year.

YOTEL is the antithesis to the manic and often stressful airport environment offering guests a haven of calm and quiet with luxury bedding, rejuvenating power showers, relaxing mood lighting, practical work station and free WiFi. A unique alternative to the drab, airport hotel offering, guests have been quick to embrace the convenient location funky décor (state of the art gadgetry) simple booking system (yotel.com) and excellent value (starting from just £25 for 4 hours)

5 star comments from happy YOTEL guests include:

“Great, great, just great! Did I say that this place is just great, I just loved it. Stay for as long or short as you want, free internet, really great showers, really great beds. I was just shocked at how much I liked this place. It’s just like a space aged train cabin. Nice LCD TV at the end of your bed with internet, this place is just what you need in between flights or delays. I would say that my cabin was spotless…” (source tripadvisor.co.uk 29th March 2008).

Women’s weekly fashion magazine Grazia named YOTEL as one of the top 10 coolest places to stay on holiday stating that: “While many hotels take the ‘bigger is better’ approach to bedrooms the YOTELs at Gatwick and Heathrow are proof that small can be beautiful - and a bargain to boot!” (11th March 2008)

CEO Gerard Greene said ”It has been a rollercoaster year for the YOTEL team. A big thanks to them and all those customers that were early to adopt us! It’s always nervous times when you start up a business but those fears have been laid to rest over the last year with so many customers from across the globe catching some sleep before they fly off on a horrible early morning flight, having a shower or chilling and watching a movie in their own space inside the terminals. We have some big plans to bring YOTEL to airports and city centres across the globe with our partners IFA Hotels & Resorts so keep checking back with us.”