Yotel Boston offers cozy, high-tech service
Yotel is targeting a June 22 debut for its new Seaport District hotel in South Boston, where guests will enter “Mission Control” and use self-service kiosks or the U.K. chain’s “Shaggy” mobile concierge app to check in to their “cabins.”
The 11-story hotel, which markets affordable luxury with high-tech touches, will have 326 cabins, the
bulk being the small 149-squarefoot rooms for which Yotel is known.
“It may sound less in size than your normal hotel room, but it really feels very spacious,” general manager Chris Hartzell said. “It’s very smart, very sleek. We use a lot of technology and innovation, but we’re proud to offer full-service modern luxury to our guests.”
Yotel rooms have adjustable “SmartBeds” that, with a push of a button, convert within 30 seconds from a sofa to a queen or king bed with a Serta Cool Action Gel Memory Foam mattress. Each room has mood lighting and a “techno wall” with smart TV and multiple power connections for mobile devices and computers, allowing guests to play music or stream movies. Bathrooms have monsoon rain shower heads and heated towel racks.
Other rooms will range from 200- to 225-squarefoot corner rooms to a single two-room, 1,000-squarefoot VIP suite on the 11th floor with a king bed, oversized bath, separate living area with wet bar, kitchen and seating and techno walls in both rooms.
The Seaport Boulevard Yotel will be the second U.S. location after the 713room New York Yotel that opened in 2011.
Other U.S. Yotels are expected to open in San Francisco this year and Miami in 2019.
South Boston amenities will include a gym, firstfloor club lounge with patio open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and sky lounge with a rooftop terrace.
Depending on demand and time of year, rooms will start at $200 to $250, and Yotel.com will have special offers with lower prices, according to Hartzell. Rates include superfast Wi-Fi, local and U.S. phone calls, and coffee and tea. Yotel’s website was offering reservations yesterday starting on July 15 that began at $279 per night for a premium queen cabin.