HOTELS OF THE FUTURE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 48, 25 August 1925, Page 6

HOTELS OF THE FUTURE

PLANS FOR THE NEW WONDER HOUSES

NO VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS.

(fROU OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 9th 'July. During a discussion on "Hotels and their Effect on National Prosperity" at the Advertising Convention, Mr: W. Buchanan-Taylor, advertisement manager of Messrs. J. Lyons and Co., predicted what the hotels of the future would be. .He said the English had the deserved reputation of being the best-washed nation in the world, yet, save in the most recently or reconditioned hotels, it was not easy to get a bedroom with bathroom attached. Present-day English hotels, with probably twenty exceptions, were* obsolete, but efforts were being made by the big companies. to bring the old buildings into something like up-to-dato shape by adding to the public accommodations and conveniences. This was a difficult matter sometimes because of the planning of the original structures.

"The hotel of the future," Mr, Buch-anan-Taylor continued, "will be a wonder house indeed. Present-day facilities, even in the most perfected of the residential palaces, will pale before the plans that are in prospect. Hotels will be bigger; rooms more practical, and all conveniences immediately to hand. There will be hot and cold ' running water in every bedroom, and a private bathroom will be available for every guest. Dustproof wardrobes, fitted completely with hangers and sectionised compartments, will be built in the walls, so as to "give more, floor space. Double windows and other protections from otuside noise will be installed, and scientific ventilation and, heating will take the place of draughty window fittings, smutty coal fires, and rattling radiators. There will be telephones in every room, automatically controlled and linked up with wireless. Already in some Continental hotels it is possible to make your own arangements in the bedroom for awakening at a fixed hour, having breakfast served to the minute, and the bath water laid on, all without giving.a single verbal instruction, i A clock-like arrangement by the bedside does it all. You simply put a plug in one of the many slots on the face of the disc. The alarm bell rings at the exact time you fixed, bath and breakfast follow precisely to time, and from the same little instrument you can get a 'phone call through to any part of the city or on the long-distance system."