'No frills' hotel opens in London
EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou opened his first "no-frills" easyHotel on Monday.
Prices start from £20 for one of the 34 rooms at Lexham Gardens in Earls Court, west London.
There is no bar or lounge or any shared public areas, except for a reception desk, and only one member of staff will be permanently on site.
Only three of the rooms have windows and they come in three sizes - small, very small and tiny.
They are 80 sq ft, 70 sq ft and 60 sq ft respectively.
'Safe, clean room'
The rooms do have en-suite bathrooms with towels, air conditioning and pay-as-you-go television but no food is available.
An easyHotel spokesman said: "The aim of easyHotel is to provide a safe, clean room for the night with a bathroom en-suite and to fill the gap left between the branded chains of hotels and bed & breakfast accommodation.
"The existing branded hotel chains all start at a price much higher than easyHotel and bed & breakfast accommodation is an un-branded 'one-off' service where quality and value are variable.
An easyHotel will open in Basle, Switzerland, in September and it is planned there will be more of these low-cost establishments in London and the UK.
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Published: 2005/08/01 16:42:39 GMT
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