Cabin-style hotel chain YOTEL is to open its first property in central London, which will be its third in the UK.
The 212-cabin hotel will open in Clerkenwell, regarded as London’s creative quarter, in 2018. It will be YOTEL’s first city-centre property in Europe.
It currently has hotels at Heathrow, Gatwick, Amsterdam Schiphol and Paris Charles de Gaulle, and one city-centre hotel in Manhattan. It has others in the pipeline at Singapore’s Changi Airport as well as in Boston, San Francisco, Miami, Brooklyn and Dubai,
The Clerkenwell hotel will include a gym, bar, an independently-operated dining outlet and YOTEL’s Club Lounge concept, which offers flexible meeting and co-working spaces that will be designed in keeping with the surrounding area.
All cabins and communal areas of the hotel will be served by super-fast and free wifi, said YOTEL.
YOTEL’s CEO Hubert Viriot, said: "We are more than ready to bring the YOTEL city-centre concept home. Since the opening of our flagship in New York, we have been looking for the right opportunity and we finally found it in Clerkenwell.
"The mixed-use project, developed by Medina Investments, complements the YOTEL brand perfectly. It’s dynamic, creative and forward-thinking and backed by a developer with acumen and vision."
The site is a six-minute walk from Farringdon Station, seven minutes to Spa Fields Park, eight minutes to City University London and a 15-minute walk to the Barbican Centre for performing arts.
The hotel will benefit from the impending arrival of Crossrail to Farringdon Station, set to complete in 2018.
