Snoozebox
U.K. pop-up hotel company
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Snoozebox is a pop-up hotel company which used modified recycled shipping containers.
| Industry | Hospitality |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | Robert Breare |
| Website | snoozebox |
History
Snoozebox was founded by leisure entrepreneur Robert Breare in 2011, with former Formula 1 racing driver David Coulthard as a principle.[1]
The portable hotels are found at many motorsports events and also at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at Thorpe Park's Crash Pad hotel. It reported a pretax loss of £2.3 million for the six months to June 30, less than the £5.1 million loss it reported in the first half of 2013.[2]
The company formed a partnership with Medirest to test the patient hotel model at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.[3]
The contractor Bilfinger Salamis had planned a modular hotel, using Snoozebox's shipping containers, which would have 80 ensuite bedrooms for its skills and safety training centre in Aberdeen. The hotel was planned to be open for 5 years.[4]
A 58-room youth hostel, a partnership between the Eden Project and the Youth Hostel Association has been built entirely of shipping containers by the company in St Austell.[5]
Snoozebox has their flagship hotel in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.[6]