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james73 · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: £100m Hi-tech hotel for city

DUTCH hotel bosses have chosen Glasgow as the site for their first
hi-tech hotel outside Holland.

The citizenM group will shortly begin work on the £100million hotel next to
the Theatre Royal.

But not all of the 180-room hotel will be built in Glasgow. The bespoke
rooms will be created from scratch in a Dutch factory and shipped over to
Scotland, where they will be slotted into place on top of each other.

The 275,000 sq ft property will be the first built outside the Netherlands
before a rollout in 20 cities, including London, Barcelona, Berlin, Milan,
Brussels, Copenhagen, Prague, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Moscow and
Budapest.

Bosses say their ethos is "affordable luxury for the people".

The designer rooms offer a power rain shower - which looks like the beam
me up, Scotty' transporter in Star Trek - remote-controlled ambient
lighting and a touch-screen mood pad', which allows guests to select
lighting, temperature and music in six settings.

Other hi-tech features include free Wi-Fi, electronic window blinds, free
on-demand movies and an alarm clock that can be programmed to wake
me gently' or wake me wildly'.

James H
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