The ultimate crew hotel
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- Aviation theme
If you were targeting travelling doctors, would you make it look like a hospital?
I don't even like going to aviation themed bars..... they tend to attract w@nkers
everything else sounds great.
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Some progress on our hotel
Thanks for all the feedback. We have taken note and the aviation theme has been turfed.
We have located the site for the hotel and are in the process of contacting the prominent foreign airlines to gauge their interest and to find out how long they have left on their current contracts.
Here is what we have so far:
The site is located 15.5 kms from Johannesburg International Airport and the driving time will average 15 minutes. It is located within an upmarket suburb and will have great views of Johannesburg.
The hotel will have between 200 to 250 rooms.
It will be attached to an upmarket and chic shopping mall with direct access into the Piazza where some of the best restaurants are located.
The mall has 130 stores with over two dozen restaurants and two cinema houses.
There is also a 24 hour gym (Mon - Fri) with a heated olympic size swimming pool. The gym closes at 9pm on Fridays and 7pm Sat and Sun. We will decide at a later stage whether we will contract to the gym or build our own, but will probably go with the gym in the mall.
The surrounding area is very safe and guests can walk outside with no fear for their safety.
We have noted the suggestions on this site and will incorporate the majority of them into the design of the hotel.
We are looking for 90% of the occupants to be contracted airline crew members.
SORRY, no brothel!! But we can arrange transport to Teazers or The Lollipop Lounge
We have located the site for the hotel and are in the process of contacting the prominent foreign airlines to gauge their interest and to find out how long they have left on their current contracts.
Here is what we have so far:
The site is located 15.5 kms from Johannesburg International Airport and the driving time will average 15 minutes. It is located within an upmarket suburb and will have great views of Johannesburg.
The hotel will have between 200 to 250 rooms.
It will be attached to an upmarket and chic shopping mall with direct access into the Piazza where some of the best restaurants are located.
The mall has 130 stores with over two dozen restaurants and two cinema houses.
There is also a 24 hour gym (Mon - Fri) with a heated olympic size swimming pool. The gym closes at 9pm on Fridays and 7pm Sat and Sun. We will decide at a later stage whether we will contract to the gym or build our own, but will probably go with the gym in the mall.
The surrounding area is very safe and guests can walk outside with no fear for their safety.
We have noted the suggestions on this site and will incorporate the majority of them into the design of the hotel.
We are looking for 90% of the occupants to be contracted airline crew members.
SORRY, no brothel!! But we can arrange transport to Teazers or The Lollipop Lounge
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You can now expect a flood of 'Evaluation Teams', comprising junior management and representing CC, Flight deck and Finance all coming to you for a 'Freebe' stay!
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JBfan...
My record for 1 year was 282 nights in a hotel in one year...
Many of those were in the Dorint in AMS, and many, many more were in Embassy Suites throughout America and 1 in Puerto Rico...These are Super Night Stops!!!
Many on this thread have danced around it, but the bottom line regardless of where you are laying over is QUIET!!!
Other amenities will follow, but after a Red Eye from Philly to L.A. with 3 stops on the way, I don't need to eat breakfast (dinner actually, and the LAX Holiday Inn Chef was pretty good with that at 0830 local) and then go to my room with maids talking and making noise outside my door...
A seperate wing for "AIRCREW ONLY" with instructions from management for the staff not to enter that wing unless called by the room occupant...we all sleep at odd hours, please let us do so!!!!
My record for 1 year was 282 nights in a hotel in one year...
Many of those were in the Dorint in AMS, and many, many more were in Embassy Suites throughout America and 1 in Puerto Rico...These are Super Night Stops!!!
Many on this thread have danced around it, but the bottom line regardless of where you are laying over is QUIET!!!
Other amenities will follow, but after a Red Eye from Philly to L.A. with 3 stops on the way, I don't need to eat breakfast (dinner actually, and the LAX Holiday Inn Chef was pretty good with that at 0830 local) and then go to my room with maids talking and making noise outside my door...
A seperate wing for "AIRCREW ONLY" with instructions from management for the staff not to enter that wing unless called by the room occupant...we all sleep at odd hours, please let us do so!!!!
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Not crew, but having some thoughts -
Cleaning has to be an issue, it needs to be done, but can be noisy. Perhaps rather than big corridors of rooms, have smaller ones, but more of them. Think about filling these up by check-in time.
e.g. the 04.00 - 08.00 corridor - no one cleans any of the rooms until 16.00hrs (even if some occupants checked out at breakfast time) you will know when you check in that a cleaner will not be down the corridor, vacuuming next door, until you have had 8hrs minimum. Don't label it as such, just sort it out on the internal systems, if you run out of space the last thing you want is a crew checking in at 03.00 seeing that they are in the 14.00-18.00 corridor, hopefully everything else you have done will keep them happy!
The other plus with the above arrangement is that most people arriving at the same time will have a similar pattern of sleeping over the next night or 2 = less disturbance for all
How about do not disturb/please make up room lights? Green and Red LEDs, small labled switch in the room 3 position Off/Do Not Disturb/Make up room, lights up LED in corridor.
Hangers, more of them - if I'm staying for three days I need 3 for shirts plus one for the return trip, 2/3 for trousers, one for suit/uniform jacket, one for a casual jacket, one for coat and a couple for T-shirts/casual shirts. That's 12 - I may be an extreme case! But I do wonder why many hotels seem to think that 6 for a double room is sufficient, the good lady has terrible trouble finding somewhere to put her stuff
Cleaning has to be an issue, it needs to be done, but can be noisy. Perhaps rather than big corridors of rooms, have smaller ones, but more of them. Think about filling these up by check-in time.
e.g. the 04.00 - 08.00 corridor - no one cleans any of the rooms until 16.00hrs (even if some occupants checked out at breakfast time) you will know when you check in that a cleaner will not be down the corridor, vacuuming next door, until you have had 8hrs minimum. Don't label it as such, just sort it out on the internal systems, if you run out of space the last thing you want is a crew checking in at 03.00 seeing that they are in the 14.00-18.00 corridor, hopefully everything else you have done will keep them happy!
The other plus with the above arrangement is that most people arriving at the same time will have a similar pattern of sleeping over the next night or 2 = less disturbance for all
How about do not disturb/please make up room lights? Green and Red LEDs, small labled switch in the room 3 position Off/Do Not Disturb/Make up room, lights up LED in corridor.
Hangers, more of them - if I'm staying for three days I need 3 for shirts plus one for the return trip, 2/3 for trousers, one for suit/uniform jacket, one for a casual jacket, one for coat and a couple for T-shirts/casual shirts. That's 12 - I may be an extreme case! But I do wonder why many hotels seem to think that 6 for a double room is sufficient, the good lady has terrible trouble finding somewhere to put her stuff
