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November 2009 
Gaian to a Yotel at Schiphol
Posted on Jan 4th, 2009
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Meenakshi
Meenakshi
This isn't the expected first blog after a travel to Egypt; but I'm still catching up with physical energies, photos, Gaia posts....and housework.
So to start off, I thought I'd blog about this interesting concept hotel--Yotel. They have them at two airports with longish wait times: Amsterdam's Schiphol and both London's major airports.
Well, we decided to splurge a bit and not get all exhausted in our 24-hour journey to Cairo, that includes a 10-hour wait at Schiphol before we began our nomadic Egypt holiday, where we'd be in a different place each night. So we booked a Yotel room for a few hours.
It's right next to McDonald's at the airport, and we don't even have to take a bus to go there. Like Gaia, the dominating color is lavender/purple. Very soothing light, actually. The beds are AMAZINGLY comfortable. The kind that lulled my daughter to sleep though she was all set to go out and look at the shops!
The room is miniscule, and they're laid out on two sides of a train-like corridor. It's all high-tech, and influenced by Japanese design. The beds in some rooms can be converted to a sitting bed/fully open with the touch of a button; other buttons can set the lighting with to appropriately adjust to several functions: sleep, read in bed, leave the room or have a shower.
There's lots of glass, but also blinds for privacy; so at least one can have a shower and refresh oneself while the others wander around! There's a TV, so I saw Madagascar for the first time. There was internet connection, but I'd left all electronic items at home. So I was Gaia-less for 8 days.
Then we had several knocks on our door as someone was smoking, so the yotel staff had to go door to door, waking us up to check who it was. That was annoying, but otherwise, all worth it.
It was the longest rest we'd have for the next 36 hours.
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P.S. On the way back, we had 5-hours wait, so we spent it at the lovely free Comfort Chairs at the airport...and other places.
Found a sparrow at Schiphol, and promptly called my mom once I was home, to tell her where they'd all gone!
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On to Egypt, that fascinating land of unexpected contrasts....
[Link added later - Visiting Egypt~ everything was unexpected ]
So to start off, I thought I'd blog about this interesting concept hotel--Yotel. They have them at two airports with longish wait times: Amsterdam's Schiphol and both London's major airports.
Well, we decided to splurge a bit and not get all exhausted in our 24-hour journey to Cairo, that includes a 10-hour wait at Schiphol before we began our nomadic Egypt holiday, where we'd be in a different place each night. So we booked a Yotel room for a few hours.
It's right next to McDonald's at the airport, and we don't even have to take a bus to go there. Like Gaia, the dominating color is lavender/purple. Very soothing light, actually. The beds are AMAZINGLY comfortable. The kind that lulled my daughter to sleep though she was all set to go out and look at the shops!
The room is miniscule, and they're laid out on two sides of a train-like corridor. It's all high-tech, and influenced by Japanese design. The beds in some rooms can be converted to a sitting bed/fully open with the touch of a button; other buttons can set the lighting with to appropriately adjust to several functions: sleep, read in bed, leave the room or have a shower.
There's lots of glass, but also blinds for privacy; so at least one can have a shower and refresh oneself while the others wander around! There's a TV, so I saw Madagascar for the first time. There was internet connection, but I'd left all electronic items at home. So I was Gaia-less for 8 days.
Then we had several knocks on our door as someone was smoking, so the yotel staff had to go door to door, waking us up to check who it was. That was annoying, but otherwise, all worth it.
It was the longest rest we'd have for the next 36 hours.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
P.S. On the way back, we had 5-hours wait, so we spent it at the lovely free Comfort Chairs at the airport...and other places.
Found a sparrow at Schiphol, and promptly called my mom once I was home, to tell her where they'd all gone!
On to Egypt, that fascinating land of unexpected contrasts....
[Link added later - Visiting Egypt~ everything was unexpected ]
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So wonderful to have you back and to hear about your Yotel adventure! Looking forward to hearing more about Egypt :)