New Hotel Concept - Will It Catch On

The Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego has recently introduced a "Survivor Package" hotel room. For $19 you get a room with nothing in it except a tent. No bed,sheets, lights, air conditioning, not even toilet paper! Make no mistake, this is a luxury hotel, but they feel this package willentice people to stay there despite hard economic times.

On first glance this sounds ridiculous, but after a little thought, the idea does present some merit.

What do you really need in a hotel? A bed, shower or bath, toilet with toilet paper. Most of the time guests in a hotel just use it just for sleep, why pay for extras you don’t or won’t use. Granted, a TV is a nice extra, as is air conditioning, but cutting out the extras that most travelers bring anyway could serve to reduce the cost of the room.

The bare bones concept is a good one. How many times have you spent good money for a hotel room only to find unclean bedding, dingy carpets and a TV that barely works. What if there was a hotel that provided a good clean bed without bedding, you just bring your own. Companies like Allersac specialize in travel sheets which are easy to use. Many travelers bring travel pillows on planes or in cars anyway, why not use them in your hotel room.

Think of how nice it would be to enter a hotel room with no carpets, just clean ceramic tiles. No need to strip off the filthy bedspread, no tedious inspection for bedbugs because the bedding would already be gone, and with no carpets you’re practically guaranteed a bedbug free stay. Not to mention all the others germs like MRSA, scabies, e.coli etc.

Any hotel geared towards this concept would save big money on housekeeping and maintenance. Expenditures and upgrades to furniture would be minimal.

Newer hotel concepts are already moving towards this idea. Many new construction hotels have stopped providing bath tubs and are going with only shower stalls. The replacement of bedspreads with fancy duvets and removable duvet covers is an attempt by the industry to provide cleaner bedding, even though this remedy is just cosmetic, it shows the dissatisfaction guests have with what they are provided with as far as bedding goes.

In a survey of 2,270 U.S adults, 87% book packages to save money, 84% will spend less overall and 51% plan to stay fewer nights. Of that number 16% plan to take at least one overnight business trip. Any hotel that can offer cleaner, cheaper rooms, will capitalize on the wants and needs of travelers to save more and spend less .

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