As reported on this blog last year, Yotel was building a 669 room hotel in New York, in Times Square. The hotel is now ready to open its doors, and they’re taking reservations for stays from 15 June, 2011 onwards.

Yotel New York

The Yotel New York has 18 first class cabins and three VIP 2-cabin suites that come with private outdoor terraces and hot tubs. The guest rooms are all classic Yotel in the looks department, with the same purple mood lighting.

But unlike Yotel’s airport hotels, this one does not have a 4-hour rate and will instead offer nightly rates (from $149) for rooms that are twice as big as the airport Yotel rooms. If you follow them on twitter @YOTELHQ or friend them on Facebook, they’re offering special deals.

The Yotel New York is also the company’s first city center hotel. The other Yotels are airport hotels in London (Heathrow and Gatwick) and in Amsterdam (Schipol).

Yotel creator Simon Woodroffe  said of the New York launch – “YOTEL will bring a unique mix of fun, excitement and luxury to New York and all at an affordable price. YOTEL has a fantastic energy about it which New York’s 44 million visitors a year will love.”

The hotel has a luggage robot (yobot), and the premium rooms come with motorized moving beds, a monsoon shower, technowall with TV, music and power services,  workstation, free WiFi and guests get a complimentary breakfast.

It has a Japanese cuisine restaurant named Dohyo, and a Club Lounge with a bar and a DJ booth, and cabins for meetings and private parties. For larger events and parties, the Yotel has a “Studiyo” and The Terrace, which is a large outdoor terrace with two bars, pagodas, and fire & blankets to cozy up.

The hotel is in a 60 story tower that is part of an $800 million mixed-use project. In addition to the Yotel and residencies, the complex also houses the Signature Center, an off-Broadway theater complex designed by Frank Gehry. The entire complex has been built with a green design, and they’re looking for an LEED Silver certification.

Photo – Yotel

More Info: Yotel.com

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50 sq ft room at Jane Hotel in NYC

How can you score a hotel room in Manhattan for less than $100 per night?

Check into one of New York City’s tiniest hotel rooms.

There’s really no such thing as a “spacious” hotel room in Manhattan, but micro-hotels like The Jane Hotel take scaling down to an extreme with rooms measuring as little as 50 square feet. Within those few feet, guests can expect to find a bed, a phone on the wall, and a shelf above the bed to store luggage. Personal hygiene must be taken care of in the communal bathroom down the hall. If you need a little more space and a bathroom of your own, The Jane offers 50 rooms that boast 250 square feet of lodging space for about double the price of the standard mini-room.

Across the island from The Jane’s Far West Village location, The Pod Hotel offers “pod rooms” in East Midtown with about 99 square feet of space for as little as $85 a night, a rate that includes free WiFi. You can get your own bathroom for just $10 more per night. While The Jane’s rooms tend to be decorated in dark paneling that could make the claustrophobic traveler feel like they were confined in the hull of a ship, The Pod’s decor is bright and modern, a better match for the “broke but hip” crowd.

The idea of micro-hotels might seem crazy, but it’s actually spreading. On April 15, the new Yotel Time Square will open in the famed tourist district and become the chain’s first micro-hotel in the United States. The Yotel rooms will be about 170 square feet and cost guests just over $200 per night. Yotel has enjoyed success with the pod-like rooms in its properties in Europe, including a location in London Heathrow’s Terminal 4.

Would you consider staying in a room with less than 100 square feet of space if it only cost you $85 per night to stay in Midtown Manhattan? I’ve certainly payed a lot more money for not much more usable space, and the size of my hotel room is rarely a major concern when I’m visiting The City That Never Sleeps.

Photos provided by NJFPR

The news is that New York City is getting its very own non-airport 669 room Yotel, and that too in Times Square, in a 25-storey tower on the corner of 42nd Street and 10th Avenue.

Yotel

Now what’s a Yotel? That would be a purplish airport hotel, offering cheap and tiny pods for stopovers.

There are Yotels already open in London, at Gatwick and Heathrow, and in Amsterdam, at Schipol. So how come it overshot JFK or Newark and crash-landed in Times Square?

THe FT informs us that the New York Yotel will be opening in 2011 as part of an $800m residential complex development.

Rather than offering brief stopover accomodations, this Yotel will be much more of a conventional hotel, charging  $200-$250 for capsules twice the size of a standard airport Yotel room.

It will also have a business lounge, bar, restaurant and outside terrace. And the trademark motorised beds and purple mood lighting. Wouldn’t be a Yotel without that.

There’s also two more non-airport Yotels about to open in Central London.

Photo courtesy Yotel Ltd. (www.yotel.com/)

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