Anyone used Pop Up Hotels.

[Pete McCluskey.]

Hi we are planning to go to the Goodwood Revival next year and I came across
this mob on the net. The Pop-Up Hotel: Luxury Accommodation for Events & Retreats
And was wondering if anyone on the Forum has had any experience with them.
I will be interested to know how the standards were.

 

[Keith]

Hey Pete, I'm not sure but I think they're all booked up next year. Turns out there are some rich Somalians using them (on housing benefit natch) and apparently they own half the world's tanker fleet as well, so if you can find one - it's probably going to be a good 'un with fresh straw and newly laundered dish dash.

Seriously though, I had never heard of them but spotted a Tweet from "Red Herring Events" who is a friend of mine near here and Steve specialises in outside catering on a large scale so obviously he has some experience of them.

I will contact him and ask him...although, I kinda suspect David already has the skinny.

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

You can pay extra and get a hooker with the Pop Up Hotel. Called a Pop Tart.

 

[flatchat(Chris)]

I use a Pop Up blocker --so, haven't heard of them either...:worried:

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

Hi we are planning to go to the Goodwood Revival next year and I came across
this mob on the net. The Pop-Up Hotel: Luxury Accommodation for Events & Retreats
And was wondering if anyone on the Forum has had any experience with them.
I will be interested to know how the standards were.

Just to keep it in front of you. Anybody?

 

[David Morton]

Pete - they did one of these areas at the Le Mans 24h this year.



Abilmo Pop-up Hotel Rooms: Instant Accommodation


Lloyd Alter
Design / Modular Design
June 27, 2008

We have shown a few instant hotel room ideas before; they are big in Europe where there are a lot of festivals and a lot of people with a lot of money who need something better than a tent. Abilmo squeezes a lot of stuff into 12 Sqm, (130 SF) including a bathroom with toilet and shower, thermal and acoustic insulation, individual heating and air conditioning. It is an interesting idea- why build an entire hotel for a big event when you can just move it around?

It doesn't look bad inside, either, if a bit spartan.

The site plan looks a little Guantánamo Bay and could use some work, but it is all real, they built it for the Le Mans races in June. Watch the video at ::AbilmoOther Prefab Pod Hotels in TreeHugger

Prefab Rehab Plugin LED Less is More Hotel

The Travelpod: Prefab Mobile Hotel Room

Travelodge Building Pop-Up Prefab Hotels

M-Hotel By Tim Pyne

 

[Jack]

David, they could give an entire new definition for "Pop Tarts"!

 

[David Morton]

Audi have three that sit behind the main garage at Le Mans specifically for the drivers and they are constructed on top of the containers and awning area that make up the body shop. They are quite well appointed with quite effective sound insulation. Personally, my Mercedes Sprinter is actually a Motorhome and I park on the western side of the airfield so I am about 2000 yds away and if I have a noise issue I use my noise reduction headset playing with the massed bands of the Argylle and Sutherland Highlanders marching along Princes Street. It sends me to sleep pdq.

 

[David Morton]

Jack, believe me - the whole of the Le Mans area during the 24 is plagued (or blessed depending on your point of view) with eastern Euro night fighters and loads of their 'visiting' cards are stuck under the windscreen wipers every morning.

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

Jeez David, I'm amazed that you can survive Le Mans, it must be the Laphroaig
and black pudding that keeps you going.
Will you please send me an email my computer shat itself and I lost your address. Thanks.

Yep you are right! No back up my Bad.:cry:

 

[David Morton]

It's a village called Little Marlow and if you use google earth it's SL7 3RZ. It's the house
set back off the road and just south of the pub gardens ( with the parasols in the pub garden).
Two pubs - the first at 80 yds and the second 200 yds away and both keep good beers.
The local brewery is 1.2 miles away (Rebellion ) and is about 6 on the Richter scale. (They also have in incredible stock of wines and spirits from everywhere in the world). The local railway has direct trains into London and is just down the road and the trains arrive in Paddington which is where the best Dim Sum restaurant in London is as well. Their beer is Tsingtao which I find really quite agreeable. Don't associate British beers with anything else, but I plan champagne anyway........
I can hear Keith moaning already.

 

[Keith]

Truthfully, I could not identify any discernible barrier between Lord Morton's Motte and the adjacent pub garden, except I think there was a gate in the Bailey wall which was off it's hinges.