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Hoteliers offer rentals for 500 euros per month due to the loss of tourists
The Campanille hotel in Alicante, the B&B chain and the Belroy in Benidorm reinvent themselves to stay open and alleviate the covid crisis - The new market niche seeks to attract from the conventional tenant to the teleworker
Above, facilities at the Campanille hotel. Manuel R. Sala
Live holiday enjoying the comforts of a hotel . The lack of clients that has caused the health and economic crisis of the covid has forced entrepreneurs to recycle and seek new business niches to attract guests until the situation begins to normalize, the administration of vaccines is generalized and, therefore, conventional tourism and business (congresses and meetings) are reactivated. This is the case of the Campanille chain, which after successfully starting the experience in Barcelona, has authorized its establishment in the city of Alicante (84 rooms) to rent part of its rooms for long-stay clients, specifically from a month. Tenants can access a double room for 500 euros per month, with free Wi-Fi and parking, enjoy common areas, and a living room with furniture, bathroom, fridge and oven has also been set up to prepare breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
The hotel cleans the room once a week, in which two people could even spend the night, as Delphine Fernández, director of the establishment located at the southern entrance of Alicante, explained yesterday. The Campanille was one of the first to reopen after the de-escalation, and it has managed to maintain occupations of between 20% and 50%, not inconsiderable percentages in a situation marked by the lack of customers . This special tenant lives in a room, but paying a price that is below the average rent in the city (600 euros) and has other attractions such as Wi-Fi or parking. Apart from the Campanille, another hotel that has taken advantage of its extension, the Belroy in Benidorm, to offer this possibility aimed at clients who come to the province to telecommute, as well as the B&B chain with establishments in Alicante and Elche. Many tourist apartment blocks have also been adapted, such as the Tito complex in Alicante.
The Telework (digital nomads) has opened this possibility and the fact that the rising rents in central areas of cities do prohibitive for many pockets, can also enjoy accommodation in heart of the urban centers. "The idea came from our headquarters in Barcelona where it has worked and we have thought that since we have a wing of the hotel in Alicante without customers it can fit in, both for the tenants and for us now that the occupancy is low", explains Delphine Fernández, director of the Campanille.
Federico Fuster, owner of the Belroy hotel in Benidorm, has also designed, together with his team, another possibility of accommodation. "We had already thought about it before, but the pandemic caught us in full renovation of an area of the hotel to dedicate it to another type of client, the one who comes to work." You stay at the hotel and also have the services of an office.
Another B&B chain, with hotels in Alicante, Elche, València and Castellón, offers rooms in its five hotels in the Valencian Community, also starting at five hundred euros per month. The rate includes room cleaning, change of sheets once a week, wifi and coffee without the need to pay a deposit or guarantees. B&B has already launched a promotion for its rooms to be used as offices and has now gone one step further with the "Home for everyone" rate. With the new rate, it offers monthly stays for less than 19 euros per day when the daily cost of the conventional rate is 46 euros. Stays are in rooms with daily cleaning, large bed, bathroom and free coffee or tea 24 hours a day in the hotel lobby.
Other hotels like the Dynastic in Benidorm add entrances to the parks like Terra Natura. Others are offering discounts for "Black Friday" that go up to 40% of the official rate or free parking. Benidorm is thus trying to contain the "bleeding" caused by the covid to continue attracting customers to its facilities and make up a winter that is expected to be very difficult for the tourism sector, but that everything indicates that it will end in a spring of frank recovery of customers .
ROOMS IN BENIDORM TO "AVOID" THE TOUCH OF REMAIN
The most varied offers are given in Benidorm. For example, the one carried out by the Belroy hotel, located at the intersection of Avenida del Mediterráneo with Avenida de Europa. In its brewery with 150 brands and in the Japanese restaurant, consuming more than 25 euros means that you can spend a night with breakfast in one of the double rooms of the hotel establishment for an additional 65 euros. The claim: "Don't worry, the curfew doesn't catch you on the street." And it is that the offer is aimed at those people who rush the time to have dinner or have a beer and the clock strikes midnight. Also for those who do not want to take the car afterwards.
NOTE: taken from Spanish newspaper this morning.
The Campanille hotel in Alicante, the B&B chain and the Belroy in Benidorm reinvent themselves to stay open and alleviate the covid crisis - The new market niche seeks to attract from the conventional tenant to the teleworker
Above, facilities at the Campanille hotel. Manuel R. Sala
Live holiday enjoying the comforts of a hotel . The lack of clients that has caused the health and economic crisis of the covid has forced entrepreneurs to recycle and seek new business niches to attract guests until the situation begins to normalize, the administration of vaccines is generalized and, therefore, conventional tourism and business (congresses and meetings) are reactivated. This is the case of the Campanille chain, which after successfully starting the experience in Barcelona, has authorized its establishment in the city of Alicante (84 rooms) to rent part of its rooms for long-stay clients, specifically from a month. Tenants can access a double room for 500 euros per month, with free Wi-Fi and parking, enjoy common areas, and a living room with furniture, bathroom, fridge and oven has also been set up to prepare breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
The hotel cleans the room once a week, in which two people could even spend the night, as Delphine Fernández, director of the establishment located at the southern entrance of Alicante, explained yesterday. The Campanille was one of the first to reopen after the de-escalation, and it has managed to maintain occupations of between 20% and 50%, not inconsiderable percentages in a situation marked by the lack of customers . This special tenant lives in a room, but paying a price that is below the average rent in the city (600 euros) and has other attractions such as Wi-Fi or parking. Apart from the Campanille, another hotel that has taken advantage of its extension, the Belroy in Benidorm, to offer this possibility aimed at clients who come to the province to telecommute, as well as the B&B chain with establishments in Alicante and Elche. Many tourist apartment blocks have also been adapted, such as the Tito complex in Alicante.
The Telework (digital nomads) has opened this possibility and the fact that the rising rents in central areas of cities do prohibitive for many pockets, can also enjoy accommodation in heart of the urban centers. "The idea came from our headquarters in Barcelona where it has worked and we have thought that since we have a wing of the hotel in Alicante without customers it can fit in, both for the tenants and for us now that the occupancy is low", explains Delphine Fernández, director of the Campanille.
Federico Fuster, owner of the Belroy hotel in Benidorm, has also designed, together with his team, another possibility of accommodation. "We had already thought about it before, but the pandemic caught us in full renovation of an area of the hotel to dedicate it to another type of client, the one who comes to work." You stay at the hotel and also have the services of an office.
Another B&B chain, with hotels in Alicante, Elche, València and Castellón, offers rooms in its five hotels in the Valencian Community, also starting at five hundred euros per month. The rate includes room cleaning, change of sheets once a week, wifi and coffee without the need to pay a deposit or guarantees. B&B has already launched a promotion for its rooms to be used as offices and has now gone one step further with the "Home for everyone" rate. With the new rate, it offers monthly stays for less than 19 euros per day when the daily cost of the conventional rate is 46 euros. Stays are in rooms with daily cleaning, large bed, bathroom and free coffee or tea 24 hours a day in the hotel lobby.
Other hotels like the Dynastic in Benidorm add entrances to the parks like Terra Natura. Others are offering discounts for "Black Friday" that go up to 40% of the official rate or free parking. Benidorm is thus trying to contain the "bleeding" caused by the covid to continue attracting customers to its facilities and make up a winter that is expected to be very difficult for the tourism sector, but that everything indicates that it will end in a spring of frank recovery of customers .
ROOMS IN BENIDORM TO "AVOID" THE TOUCH OF REMAIN
The most varied offers are given in Benidorm. For example, the one carried out by the Belroy hotel, located at the intersection of Avenida del Mediterráneo with Avenida de Europa. In its brewery with 150 brands and in the Japanese restaurant, consuming more than 25 euros means that you can spend a night with breakfast in one of the double rooms of the hotel establishment for an additional 65 euros. The claim: "Don't worry, the curfew doesn't catch you on the street." And it is that the offer is aimed at those people who rush the time to have dinner or have a beer and the clock strikes midnight. Also for those who do not want to take the car afterwards.
NOTE: taken from Spanish newspaper this morning.
