Excerpt from GodSaveThePoints
If Marriott has its way, hotel guests may soon spend less time looking out the window deciding between birds and airplanes, and more time focusing their attention on the centerpiece of any hotel room - the bed.
The global hotel marketing giant with more than 8,000 global properties has been at the forefront of “synergy” and “efficiency” of late, aka cutting costs for its hotel owners and the latest idea must be applauded for its audacity.
Marriott is finding new room for growth by potentially making one room into two. How? Well, that’s something you’ll have to see to believe. For city dwellers, it’s not hard to imagine.
People regularly walk into hotel rooms these days and say "geez, there's just too much space in here", so Marriott has an idea to relieve people of those woes.
First there was the "Murphy Bed". Then, Terrence Conran did one better and envisaged a studio apartment where a couch could seamlessly transform into a bed and back, and now Marriott wants to turn hotel beds into sofas, and vice versa again.
Marriott is testing a mechanical device where with the press of a button, a hotel bed would fly into the sky and in its place, transform into a sofa. Nope, no need for all that extra floor space or heavens forbid, having a separate sofa and bed.
The move would allow Marriott to add rooms to preexisting properties, thanks to the reduced need for floor space. This would allow the company to impress the people who actually own their hotels — correct, it's not usually Marriott — with increased revenue potential for each square foot.
See the bed in action here.
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