I am so glad someone finally articulated what I hate about these places. Also, the way that every website for them shows you the most expensive suite, with a huge bathtub and decor that looks glorious, but you will get a white walled studio with chipped IKEA-esque furniture and a bathroom smaller than most New York closets. It’s an extension of the residential trend Amanda Mull talks about in the “HGTV-ification of America” article in The Atlantic last week. Won’t someone please just put some color and old, dark wood in a place? Surely, there’s tons of decent furniture out there to be saved from landfills.
This is the same trend as the "hip" workplace environment – if we give you some bean bags, the option to work from home, and a beer cart at 2 p.m. on Fridays, we can severely underpay you and offer you subpar benefits, if any.
I've been banging on about this for years. You either go low (here in the UK it would be a Travel Lodge. Decent beds, clean, decent locations) or you go high - like a proper hotel that actually knows how to make travel enjoyable. A shit hotel filled with hipster tropes like skyscape wall paper, 'funky' furniture and faux-friendly copywriting is like some kind of purgatory hell. It's, again to use a good UK phrase, 'all mouth and no trousers'.
In their defense; they may be the perfect expression of contemporary mainstream culture.
A trend I've noticed recently is old motels, (think Motel 6), being converted into a millennial hotel. Recently had the displeasure of staying at the Basecamp in Boulder. Just hilariously awful and fits perfectly into everything you just described above.
The Moxy is grateful for having escaped your wrath.
I am so glad someone finally articulated what I hate about these places. Also, the way that every website for them shows you the most expensive suite, with a huge bathtub and decor that looks glorious, but you will get a white walled studio with chipped IKEA-esque furniture and a bathroom smaller than most New York closets. It’s an extension of the residential trend Amanda Mull talks about in the “HGTV-ification of America” article in The Atlantic last week. Won’t someone please just put some color and old, dark wood in a place? Surely, there’s tons of decent furniture out there to be saved from landfills.
This is the same trend as the "hip" workplace environment – if we give you some bean bags, the option to work from home, and a beer cart at 2 p.m. on Fridays, we can severely underpay you and offer you subpar benefits, if any.
I've been banging on about this for years. You either go low (here in the UK it would be a Travel Lodge. Decent beds, clean, decent locations) or you go high - like a proper hotel that actually knows how to make travel enjoyable. A shit hotel filled with hipster tropes like skyscape wall paper, 'funky' furniture and faux-friendly copywriting is like some kind of purgatory hell. It's, again to use a good UK phrase, 'all mouth and no trousers'.
In their defense; they may be the perfect expression of contemporary mainstream culture.
A trend I've noticed recently is old motels, (think Motel 6), being converted into a millennial hotel. Recently had the displeasure of staying at the Basecamp in Boulder. Just hilariously awful and fits perfectly into everything you just described above.
The only thing worse is Airbnb!
Yes! Style is no substitute for service and basic, good accommodations and amenities. Esp when the style isn't even great.
What's worse: The storied, glorious, patina of the Algonquin got a whitewashed Millennial Hotel makeover. It's tragic.