A Hyatt Hotel With 96-Square-Foot Rooms?!?

This hotel must be going for some sort of a record, or something…

The Hyatt Place London Paddington’s tiny rooms

The Hyatt Place London Paddington is expected to open in 2025. The 87-room property is the conversion of a decades-old independent hotel, which was desperately in need of a renovation, and not well reviewed. Traveling For Miles makes some fascinating observations about the room sizes at this hotel.

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At the Hyatt Place London Paddington, the entry level rooms are anywhere from 96 to 161 square feet. That’s of course a huge variance — a 161-square-foot room is objectively tiny, while a 96-square-foot room… makes you wonder how that even works? Fitting a queen bed and bathroom into a space that compact is no small feat.

Next up is the king bed high floor room category, with rooms that are 107 to 150 square feet.

Interestingly it looks like the king bed (non-high floor) rooms may just be an upgrade over that, as those rooms are 118-182 square feet.

Don’t worry, the property also has duplex suites… which are 204-226 square feet!

Will there be interest in a hotel with rooms this small?

Traveling For Miles makes an argument about why he thinks this hotel belonging to the Hyatt Place brand doesn’t make a whole lot of sense:

• This property doesn’t have hotel rooms, but rather has oversized closets
• The market for people who are okay with rooms this small is primarily backpackers and students, but they probably won’t be happy paying what the Hyatt Place will try to charge
• Since there’s no shortage of hotels in London, he wonders if the owners have thought through what their target market is, given that there are other hotel groups with reasonably priced rooms that aren’t nearly this small
• He thinks most people booking directly through Hyatt will avoid this hotel, so it’ll mostly be booked through online travel agencies, which perhaps somewhat negates the value of belonging to a major hotel group

I think those are all totally fair points, though I have a slightly different take. The hotel has a central location near Paddington, I suspect this will be the most reasonably priced Hyatt property in London, and it’s also not a very big hotel, so there aren’t that many rooms to fill.

I do think there are a fair number of people who might be loyal to Hyatt in some way, and want something that’s semi-affordable. Hotel loyalty programs make us act irrationally, and I don’t think this will be any different.

So whether it’s someone who wants to stay at a Hyatt while paying as little as possible, or someone wanting to redeem as few points as possible, I don’t think the hotel will struggle too much with getting decent occupancy levels.

Now, I do think this property will probably get pretty lousy guest ratings, when people book this hotel without carefully reading the room descriptions. I mean, the room pictures don’t necessarily do justice to just how small some of the rooms are. At the end of the day, those people will only have themselves to blame, though.

Bottom line

The upcoming Hyatt Place London Paddington must have some of the smallest hotel rooms I’ve ever heard of, let alone with a major hotel group. The property’s entry level rooms will be just under 100 square feet, while the property’s suites will be just over 200 square feet.

Would you stay at the Hyatt Place London Paddington if the price were right? Are there any other hotels belonging to one of the major hotel chains with rooms starting at under 100 square feet?