Dhis idea has charm, without a doubt. Arriving at the hotel with his car, the guest does not have to look for a parking space or drive into stuffy underground car parks or narrow multi-storey car parks. He simply takes the good piece with him, steers into a car elevator that takes the traveling party almost directly to the room. After the lift, which can lead up to the tenth floor, the elevator door opens again and the car is quickly on the balcony, so to speak.
The suitcases from the car only have to be carried a few meters. The key or better the card for the room is either conventional at the reception. or you can register online beforehand. If the payment is made by credit card and the registration form is signed electronically, the guest receives an electronic key, which he needs to download an app to use. When everything has worked, you hold your cell phone in front of a card reader, the elevator opens and automatically takes you to the right floor.
There are four of these car lofts on ten of the thirteen floors of the Hotel b’mine in Frankfurt, and they are served by two special elevators. They are all on the side facing the airport, especially on the upper floors the view is a feast for all plane spotters. Because the A3 runs right next to the hotel, it’s noisy outside, so you can’t stand it for long. It’s quiet in the room itself, thanks to quintuple glazing and double balcony doors.
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With the car to the hotel room
The rooms are large, modern and functional. Everything is new, the b’mine only opened at the end of March, 70 million euros were raised by a group of investors. The hotel is the only one in Europe that offers car lofts of this type. Irrespective of this auto-unusualness, the b’mine group, which is set to grow to 30 hotels by the end of 2030, relies on a “holistic” concept that is intended to turn the learned hotel experience inside out. Colour, light, material and acoustics as well as art elements should be staged. In fact, in a car loft like this, it’s not just the car on the balcony that’s unusual. There is no closed closet, no safe and no refrigerator. Michaela Stein-Städter, Sales Director, says: “Particularly at the airport, guests only spend 1.4 to 1.6 days on average. A closet isn’t really necessary there.” There’s plenty of space to hang up your things. None of the 240 rooms have a refrigerator, which is not sustainable. If you need a safe, you can leave valuables at reception in the classic way, and in the car lofts the car is transformed into a safe, so to speak, if one is absolutely necessary.