A hotel renovation is an art form – an immensely expensive art form. Hoteliers are constantly being asked to make difficult choices about what areas they should invest in. Here are some of the parts of a hotel that need to be brought up to date to successfully and attract return trade.
Entrance Halls And Lobbies
An entrance hall or lobby is like an architectural handshake. These spaces introduce your potential customers to the world you have built and which they will potentially inhabit. The entrance hall not only introduces your hotel to customers but also introduces the kind of activities they will be able to partake in. Try and create a multi-use space that facilitates casual and formal meetings, bookings, relaxing, and socializing. Openness can be a little imposing. Break up huge rooms with plants and seating arrangements to create a space that feels genuinely inhabitable.
Elevators
An elevator has the potential to be a glamorous mode of transport and the interior design of your elevators should reflect the atmosphere of the rest of your hotel. There are plenty of unique elevator designs that you can take inspiration from, as long as it conforms to health and safety standards.
Companies like ATIS can collaborate with hoteliers and architects to put together the perfect elevator plan; consulting with a company experienced in elevator system planning is crucial, and getting a maintenance contract sorted early on will be a major job ticked off your health and safety to-do list.
The Bathroom Is Key
People spend a great deal of time in the bathroom. Nearly two-thirds of respondents to a recent US study reported spending between 30 and 60 minutes a day in the bathroom. This is why installing beautiful and peaceful bathrooms is key if you want your hotel to perform well. A bathroom is a sanctuary of sorts, and hotel bathroom design should reflect the need that customers may have to find peace while away from home. Large baths, tasteful tiling, and powerful showers can all improve a customer’s stay at your hotel. Bathroom lighting is also very important. Tasteful up-lighting or dimmable bulbs can make a bathroom far more relaxing to be in.
Carpets
One of the easiest ways to tell if you are in a bad hotel is to take a quick walk around the hallways. Nine times out of ten in a tacky hotel, you will be walking on thick, heavily patterned carpets. Not only are these carpets way out of date, but they also show dirt up extremely easily. Take a quick look at the Ugly Hotel Carpets Facebook Group. If your hotel is adorned with anything that could be submitted to the group, you have a big problem. Getting new carpets fitted is a simple way to bring your hotel right up to date in the eyes of customers. Better still, you might be able to uncover attractive wooden flooring or tiles, which are easy to polish and clean.
