Spas
A spa is a services project wearing a calm interior: water, drainage, ventilation and acoustic separation come first, then the timber and the light.
A hotel never really closes, so the work has to fit around the guests.
Hotels
Rooms · spas · lounges · public areas- Guest room refurbishment
- ฿150,000 – 400,000 per key
- Full strip-out and rebuild
- ฿400,000 – 900,000 per key
- Spa, lounge or public area
- ฿18,000 – 40,000 per m², design and build
- Mock-up room
- ฿250,000 – 600,000, before a floor is committed
- Lounge or spa of 150 – 400 m²
- 4 – 10 weeks, worked in phases
Hotel work is a different discipline from everything else the studio does, and it is not because the rooms are more elaborate.
It is because the building is full of paying guests, the operator has a brand standard that has to be met exactly, and every day a key is out of inventory is a day of lost revenue that somebody is counting.
Hotel executive lounge · conversion
Executive Lounge
A hotel meeting room to become an executive lounge, with the hotel trading throughout. The room had to serve breakfast, all-day refreshments and evening drinks, take a full bar it was never designed for, and stop reading as a conference space. Nobody now remembers the room was ever for meetings.
- Duration
- 1 month
- Hotel
- Open
- Worked
- Nights
Mock-up first, then the floor
Above about twenty keys, the studio builds one room to the proposed specification before the rest is committed. Everything learned there is cheaper to change once than on every floor.
- 1Housekeeping walks itand tells you which surface will not survive a trolley
- 2Engineering walks itand finds the socket that is on the wrong side of the bed
- 3The owner walks itand sees the real lighting level instead of a rendering
Spas, lounges and public areas
Lounges
A lounge is a hospitality machine measured in covers per hour at breakfast and seats per square metre at cocktail time, and it has to photograph well for the operator’s own channels.
Rooms
Every day a key is out of inventory is revenue somebody is counting. The programme is planned backwards from the date rooms return.
The hotel never closes
Night work, floor by floor, on a written phase plan: how many keys come out at a time, which service lift, which corridor, and where materials sit so they never cross a guest route.
Return to inventory
Deep clean, a defects walkthrough with housekeeping and engineering, and the keys handed back on the programmed date.
Questions
Can you refurbish rooms while the hotel is trading?
Yes, and most of the studio’s hotel work is done that way. The Executive Lounge was converted at night around a hotel that stayed open throughout. The phase plan, the working hours, the service lift and the corridor protection are agreed before anything is ordered.
How much does a guest room refurbishment cost per key?
฿150,000 – 400,000 per key for a refurbishment that keeps the bathroom pod and the layout, and ฿400,000 – 900,000 for a full strip-out and rebuild. The spread is joinery specification, bathroom scope and the brand standard being met.
Do you build a mock-up room first?
For any project above roughly twenty keys, yes, and it is worth the money. One room built to the proposed specification settles arguments about finishes, lighting levels, sockets and housekeeping access that would otherwise repeat on every floor.
Which hotel groups have you worked with?
The studio has built interiors for properties associated with Kempinski, Mandarin Oriental, Marriott, Renaissance, Courtyard, Banyan Tree, The Sukhothai, Oriental Residence and ONYX Hospitality, among others, over thirty-five years in Bangkok.
Other sectors
Begin with the space
Tell us where your space is and what it should become. The studio will come back to you to arrange a visit.
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