Snoozebox
Snoozebox is a pop-up hotel company which used modified recycled shipping containers.
History
It 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 has 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]
The company entered administration in 2017.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Snoozebox Hotel Company Reports A Loss Sky News, 26 April 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2021
- ^ "Snoozebox Narrows First-Half Loss, Names CFO, Secures New Finance". London South East. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
- ^ "Why trusts should think seriously about patient hotels". Health Service Journal. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
- ^ "Contractor teams up with Snoozebox to build hotel for oil and gas workers". Herald Scotland. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
- ^ "Eden Youth Hostel set to open next week". Cornish Guardian. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
- ^ Irwin Mitchell https://www.irwinmitchell.com/news-and-insights/newsandmedia/2017/november/administrator-appointed-at-snoozebox-jq-614206