Cocooning

What are your travel hotel requirements? Hotel? Pension? Apartment? Hostel? Campsite? How about a pod? CitizenM opened their first hotel 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 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.