Hefty Premier Inn hotel coming to central Brixton

[T & P]

Of all the facilities a hotel could offer, the ability to operate appliances or lights with one's smartphone instead of the oh-so-mainstream wall switches or TV remote control ranks very low in my list of priorities.

Am I right to think the 'hub' hotels have smaller rooms than their traditional offerings? I'd rather have analogue light switches in a decent sized room tbh...

 

[LeslieB]

I'd rather have analogue light switches in a decent sized room tbh...

You, me and most other people I would suspect.

As well as the fact there is endless potential for something like this to go heywire, it all has to be paid for somewhere down the line. And that will ultimately be the hotel customers who pay.

 

[editor]

Of all the facilities a hotel could offer, the ability to operate appliances or lights with one's smartphone instead of the oh-so-mainstream wall switches or TV remote control ranks very low in my list of priorities.

Am I right to think the 'hub' hotels have smaller rooms than their traditional offerings? I'd rather have analogue light switches in a decent sized room tbh...

Hotels are sooooo yesterday. Unless my new urban hub hotel concept room has smartphone integration, cleverly crafted rooms*, the latest technology and an artisan deli onboard, I'm wheeling my bag straight back into the street.

*I think this means 'small.'

hub by Premier Inn

 

[editor]

Here's a hub pic. I can't quite work it out, but it looks almost like one of those Japanese nano-rooms:

 

[editor]

Yep. it is tiny.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Yep. it is tiny.

Big enough to sleep in. Which is all you really need from a hotel room.

 

[discobastard]

Yep. it is tiny.

This is bullshit.

Having stayed in a 'connected' hotel abroad in the not too distant past where you could use apps to do various basic tasks, I can honestly say that the 20 minutes fucking about to set things up could be better utilised by doing the stuff it is designed to do more efficiently. I.e. turning on the light by pushing a switch on the wall.

Having said that, back in the early '00s I took delight in a website called something like idontwanttobuymyfuckintoothpasteonline.com, which, in recent years, I have happily done several times.

 

[editor]

Big enough to sleep in. Which is all you really need from a hotel room.

Maybe but that endorsement must surely be dependent on the price.

 

[editor]

This is bullshit.

Having stayed in a 'connected' hotel abroad in the not too distant past where you could use apps to do various basic tasks, I can honestly say that the 20 minutes fucking about to set things up could be better utilised by doing the stuff it is designed to do more efficiently. I.e. turning on the light by pushing a switch on the wall.

Having said that, back in the early '00s I took delight in a website called something like idontwanttobuymyfuckintoothpasteonline.com, which, in recent years, I have happily done several times.

It's so tiny you could probably reach every appliance that needed adjusting from the bed.

 

[discobastard]

It's so tiny you could probably reach every appliance that needed adjusting from the bed.

Using a Star Trek-like touch sensitive control panel that you end up pounding randomly because the screen settings are all to fuck. Just like the ticket machine at Tulse Hill station.

I'm good with light switches. It's a pretty clear proposition and I know what's going to happen when I flick one.

 

[discobastard]

Yep. it is tiny.

Funnily enough I found myself in an 'apartment hotel' last week in Manchester called 'The Place'. It was just me for a single night. I ended up in a two double bedroom full on bare brick industrial loft style apartment. It was fucking freezing - would have loved a cosy little room instead.

It had a proper kitchen and everything, so instead of eating out I went to a little Waitrose thing round the corner and bought some healthy stuff rather going to a restaurant and having the usual work trip unhealthy stuff. Had a v nice dinner in on my own but was then wracked with guilt about whether I should actually wash up or whether it was OK to leave my dirty dishes as they were. Obviously in hotels they change your towels and stuff when you're out during the day but I really hadn't come across the dirty dishes thing before. First world moral dilemma.. What would Urban do I wondered..

 

[LeslieB]

Big enough to sleep in. Which is all you really need from a hotel room.

It could just be the angle of the photo, but that bed looks really fucking short to me.

Playing about with the booking online, I've manage to find rooms on Brick Lane for 85 quid on quite a few days, which isn't too bad I suppose. But not if the bed is so small I don't fit on it....

 

[equationgirl]

I'm 5'3 and I think even I would struggle with that bed. How they think this concept will work is beyond me - and what happens if I don't have an apple watch? Would the hotel deign to give me a keycard?

 

[bimble]

Funnily enough I found myself in an 'apartment hotel' last week in Manchester called 'The Place'. It was just me for a single night. I ended up in a two double bedroom full on bare brick industrial loft style apartment. It was fucking freezing - would have loved a cosy little room instead.

It had a proper kitchen and everything, so instead of eating out I went to a little Waitrose thing round the corner and bought some healthy stuff rather going to a restaurant and having the usual work trip unhealthy stuff. Had a v nice dinner in on my own but was then wracked with guilt about whether I should actually wash up or whether it was OK to leave my dirty dishes as they were. Obviously in hotels they change your towels and stuff when you're out during the day but I really hadn't come across the dirty dishes thing before. First world moral dilemma.. What would Urban do I wondered..

You left your dirty dishes , didn't you.

 

[discobastard]

You left your dirty dishes , didn't you.

Actually, no, I washed up [emoji4]

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I've stayed in a couple of 'hub' hotels. They served there purpose for one night. There was nothing techie about any of them though....

 

[spitfire]

Yep. it is tiny.

I wonder if this article is related to a hub?

mjg59 | I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was just as bad as you'd imagine

"I'm in London for Kubecon right now, and the hotel I'm staying at has decided that light switches are unfashionable and replaced them with a series of Android tablets.

One was embedded in the wall, but the two next to the bed had convenient looking ethernet cables plugged into the wall. So.

I managed to borrow a couple of USB ethernet adapters......."

 

[BigMoaner]

If I had no fresh air going in there, esp at night, I'd go mad.

 

[newbie]

I wonder if this article is related to a hub?

mjg59 | I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was just as bad as you'd imagine

"I'm in London for Kubecon right now, and the hotel I'm staying at has decided that light switches are unfashionable and replaced them with a series of Android tablets.

One was embedded in the wall, but the two next to the bed had convenient looking ethernet cables plugged into the wall. So.

I managed to borrow a couple of USB ethernet adapters......."

Wow! this is why I wish I was clever. the IoT is going to be such fun for those that are.

 

[paolo]

I wonder if this article is related to a hub?

mjg59 | I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was just as bad as you'd imagine

"I'm in London for Kubecon right now, and the hotel I'm staying at has decided that light switches are unfashionable and replaced them with a series of Android tablets.

One was embedded in the wall, but the two next to the bed had convenient looking ethernet cables plugged into the wall. So.

I managed to borrow a couple of USB ethernet adapters......."

Oh that is sooo good...

 

[brixtonblade]

I can't really get too excited about this hub thing one way or another.

If I'm going somewhere and just need a bed for the night and it's clean and cheap it'll do.

If I'm going to spend time in the room or have the family then I'll go somewhere else

 

[se5]

Searching for accommodation later in the year for a meeting I'm organising at work I was offered rooms at the Premier Inn Brixton from 28 August.

Apparently the Brixton Premier Inn is in "A hip neighbourhood with Brixton’s market, music and movie houses at your feet"

London Brixton Hotel | Premier Inn

It seems to be a standard Premier Inn with no mention of Hubs.

Rooms available at £39 - 109 a night for the first few weeks of September which doesnt seem too bad for an inner London hotel.

According to the website Brixton is buzzing: "Enjoy the cultural charm of south London with a stay at our Premier Inn London Brixton hotel. This buzzing location is just two minutes' walk from Brixton Village Market and The Ritzy cinema. If music's your thing, the Electric Brixton and O2 Academy Brixton are both on your doorstep. In less than five minutes, you're at Brixton train and Tube stations and it's a ten minute ride into central London. Meanwhile, it's a ten minute stroll to historic Brockwell Park and a little further to lively Clapham Common. When it's time to head back, you'll love our new-generation bedrooms, which feature our luxury king-ize Hypnos beds and impressive 40" flat screen TV. You can also relax in our informal Kitchen restaurant with its tempting all-day menu."

 

[madolesance]

Searching for accommodation later in the year for a meeting I'm organising at work I was offered rooms at the Premier Inn Brixton from 28 August.

Apparently the Brixton Premier Inn is in "A hip neighbourhood with Brixton’s market, music and movie houses at your feet"

London Brixton Hotel | Premier Inn

It seems to be a standard Premier Inn with no mention of Hubs.

Rooms available at £39 - 109 a night for the first few weeks of September which doesnt seem too bad for an inner London hotel.

According to the website Brixton is buzzing: "Enjoy the cultural charm of south London with a stay at our Premier Inn London Brixton hotel. This buzzing location is just two minutes' walk from Brixton Village Market and The Ritzy cinema. If music's your thing, the Electric Brixton and O2 Academy Brixton are both on your doorstep. In less than five minutes, you're at Brixton train and Tube stations and it's a ten minute ride into central London. Meanwhile, it's a ten minute stroll to historic Brockwell Park and a little further to lively Clapham Common. When it's time to head back, you'll love our new-generation bedrooms, which feature our luxury king-ize Hypnos beds and impressive 40" flat screen TV. You can also relax in our informal Kitchen restaurant with its tempting all-day menu."

These folks are going to be taking over the ground floor of this Premier Inn-

Rum Kitchen coming to Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

 

[T & P]

I reckon the last time you could routinely book a hotel room in London for £39, the M25 didn't exist. I guess if they advertise it some rooms must be made available at that price, though I suspect they constitute about 5% of all available bookings.

Still, even the top rate of £109 does not sound 'expensive' for London, though it is unlikely such rates will be around permanently.

 

[happyshopper]

These folks are going to be taking over the ground floor of this Premier Inn-

Rum Kitchen coming to Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

It's the other side of the road; unless there's been a change of plan.

 

[madolesance]

It's the other side of the road; unless there's been a change of plan.

There's been a change of plan.

 

[editor]

There's been a change of plan.

Have you got a source for that? I need to update the Buzz story.

 

[madolesance]

Have you got a source for that? I need to update the Buzz story.

I got that info from Tony@ House of Bottles. He also would like to have a word with you about Steve from Kaff.

 

[editor]

I've added an update here: Brixton’s new Premier Inn turns out to be a purple glowing eyesore

 

[JRRUK]

I've added an update here: Brixton’s new Premier Inn turns out to be a purple glowing eyesore

Time for a change.org petition to get those lights turned off, looks cheap and tacky.