Yotel Announces Global Expansion, Plans to Open 3,000 New Cabins by 2018

Yotel has announced plans to expand globally, expecting to open 3,000 more cabins by 2018 in Asia, Europe and North America.

Yotel, the pioneer of capsule hotels within airports, has announced plans to expand the chain across the globe. The chain calls its rooms “cabins” due to their compact size and location in airport terminals. The company has one full-size hotel — consisting of the same capsule cabins — in New York City, and the airport hotels are currently located at London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Gatwick Airport (LGW) and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS).

According to the recent announcement, Yotel plans to open a new airport hotel at Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in mid-2016, as well as full-size hotels in Miami, Brooklyn, San Francisco and Singapore. These properties will all be open by 2018. Yotel is also in negotiations to expand into Boston, Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, Dubai, London, Milan, Barcelona, Sydney and Hong Kong.

The chain has decided to focus mostly on city center hotels moving forward. Although response to the airport properties has been favorable, only one-third of future locations will be in terminals.

Yotel’s rooms are designed to emulate a first-class cabin on a luxury flight. The company claims to strip away the clutter of luxury hotel rooms in order to offer a compact but comfortable stay. At airport locations, cabins can be booked on an hourly basis, allowing guests to come and go based on individual needs. Cabins in full-size hotels are outfitted for modern tastes with automated check-in and check-out, free Wi-Fi, monsoon showers, flat-screen TVs and workstations with multiple power ports.

[Photo: Yotel New York City]