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Yotel Cabins Preparing for Check-In

MAY 13, 2011

A new Hell’s Kitchen capsule hotel hopes to be your space-station-away-from-the-mother-ship

Yotel, the newest hotel and terrace bar to hit Midtown, was inspired by the super-efficient–and super-tiny–capsule hotels in Japanese cities. The first city foray for a chain that includes airport pod hotels complete with retractable beds and violet mood lighting at Gatwick, Heathrow and Schiphol, the 669-room New York Yotel offers sanitary white cell-rooms, ultra-modern podlike lounge areas (UrbanDaddy describes the hotel as, “Apple Store meets Space Station Mir “), and a new level of futuristic service: Upon checking in, guests are greeted by a glowing bank of flat-screens for “airport-style check-in.” A one-armed robot—the Yobot—is even on, uh, hand to help with luggage storage.

Space-age efficiency doesn’t mean a lack of amenities. Hotel perks include New York’s largest outdoor terrace at 4,000 square feet, bars, a restaurant, studio and gym. Rooms—referred to as “cabins” by the hotel’s tongue-in-cheek management—are twice the size of the chain’s airport hotel capsule rooms and packed with high-tech touches: A “technowall” offers an array of iGadgets and a Swiss Army knife of a workstation makes use of “free super strength WiFi.” Yotel (570 Tenth Avenue) is now accepting reservations for June and beyond.

More: UrbanDaddy, WSJ.com, Curbed

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