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"14 Lexham Gardens, Kensington Disabled Room (no window) One double bed. Shower, basin and toilet en-suite. No windows. Located on ground floor. GBP 10.00

Prices shown are the cost of the Room Type for the duration of the stay specified.
Prices shown include VAT.
Meals and refreshments are not included."

10 pound a night!!!! awesome!!! no one else psyched about easyHotel

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

The whole EasyCo thing bemuses me, but I've used their jet service now a number of times without a problem.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

s: easyjet, easyhotel, easyrentacar

d: easycruise, easycinema

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

they're very clear about NO WINDOWS. i bet it's a basement dungeon

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

i met stelios once, on a flight from athens. he was larking about the plane like a celebrity. very odd

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

i bet it's a basement dungeon

Kinky!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Easycruise intrigued me when I was in Nice recently, ambrose. Can you tell me about it?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

all i can tell you about it is that in my opinion a no frill cruise line doesnt make any sense and is a bad business model. some things lend them selves to being provided in a stripped down, cheap way, (eg accomodation: if you go out to a club you dont give a shit about where you lay yr head*), some things dont, to me. like going on a cruise.

i guess his idea is "young people dont care about not having anything nice and dont mind about entirely orange rooms**, and just want to travel about", but id rather go interrailing.

easybus or easycoach, whatever its called, will be good when he expands it beyond milton keynes to london?!!?! anything to challenge the shit megabus service at the mo. also, a much better, coherent corporate design concept than that fat blue and yellow man (beware blue and yellow can look v cheap*** eg ryanair the devils own airline)
he needs to concentrate on a few core things rather than opening loads with a small coverage. mind you easycinema is moving to the west end, but they ditched the "further in advance, cheaper the ticket philosophy for it, cos, generally you dont buy cinema tickets 2 months in advance.

* ahhaha as long as its in an area of london that isnt totally inaccessible, eg er... kensington!?!?!
** this is NOT a good idea stelios. i think they did a u turn on this too
*** haha yeh i know that bright orange sort of looks really really cheap but i like orange so there

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I've always thought if someone set up something similar to Japan's capsule hotel, they'd make a killing;

this is the next best thing.

that orange banner outside the hotel doesnt reall work - its about time they had a change of logo/colour scheme.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

On the news, they showed interior shots of a bedroom. It is, indeed, almost entirely orange.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

In general, I am wary of business plans that hinge on replacing employees with computers.

It kind of makes sense for EasyInternet. The first time I tried one was in Barcelona and my first thought was, "how will I pay for the soda that's in this cooler over here?" but a man popped his head out from under a desk just then and helped me out. You'd think they'd have the vending machine thing down at this point!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

If Brothels are legalized in the future in the UK, you can just imagine:

easyBrothel

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

easyDrugs

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

nah, their brothel would be called easyGirls.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

If Brothels are legalized in the future in the UK, you can just imagine:

easyBrothel

I wonder what kind of color schemes those would have?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

http://racingroadtrip.com/trips/ihra-martin-8-10-03/images/hooters_girls.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

except with more mechanical parts and neck-bolts

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

the biggst mistake is not calling it easyDorm. im sure it was meant to be called that originally, or maybe it was in my head. also orange rooms again argh!!! i think the easy! people are actually kinda stupid in a way. i still wanna stay in this hotel one day, even though it makes no sense to.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

every time i see this on tv, i imagine it just being filled with hos and their clients.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Of course this is nothing new. In france you get largely automated hotel/motels under the Formula 1 banner. You either book on the internet (or Minitel) or just swipe your credit card into the computer at the door, it gives you a code that lets you into the main door and your room. The bathrooms auto clean when you finish using them. Humans come in in the morning to change the bedding, otherwise they are largely unmanned.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

The hotels themselves are built of prefab bolt together pods.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

they should totally market these to people going to clubs. liek they did with playstation. you should havea fabricDeal or something. with your travel home mapped out! awesome!!!!!11

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

flat screen tv - to activate the tv you will need to purchase a remote control from reception (£5 for 10 channels for 24 hours)

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

orange rooms? this sounds like one of those 'ghost jails' the cia use.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

Battlingspacemonkey and me are going to see Sin City tonight at an Easycinema for a quid each - A QUID!! More power to that.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

The said on telly that they were going to work on a cheaper the further ahead you book basis again. This seems mental, as I would guess that the largest market for ultrabasic accommodation is people unexpectedly in need of a bed for the night. Ambrose OTM wrt clubbers.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

so nobody else thinks it'd be better advertised towards kerb-crawlers?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

you wanna fuck in an orange room!?!?! they dont seem to have double beds, and the rooms look real small, so if you did want to use it to pick up prostitutes you would have to be into pretty contorted sex

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

the best kind

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes, and then they get to charge them more. You haven't really grasped the concept of making lots of money, have you?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

charge by the hour.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Didn't I read ages ago that they were going to have paper sheets?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

it should be edible paper. an edible room! the walls would be the flavour of orange boiled sweets.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

re. clubbing, i'd rather spend a cold 3 hours in the bus station.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

This is not very far from the "Ideal Guest House" round the corner from Olympia, which from its appearance (surprisingly no images turned up on Google) suggests an owner whose concept of irony is that is a metal, like goldy and silvery.

easyRecordShop:

All albums cost 50p!

Stock to date:

Mark Owen - Green Man
Paul Young - No Parlez (price excludes bonus free 12")
Arrested Development - ZingalamaduniAlbum
Sleeper - The It Girl
Bay City Rollers - Once Upon A Star (slight tear in sleeve at top left-hand corner)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

Even I'd rather go clubbing than spend three hours in a bus station.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

zingalamaduni is worht 75p just for "africas inside me"

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

The It Girl is PRICELESS!

― Sleeper Steve (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

well they wouldn't give me anything for my copy at MVE so I guess you're right.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

No Ailsa, I get that, but by the looks of things last minute bookings are likely to be as expensive as those in a normal place. So they are not competitive in their biggest market.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

haha, dog!

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

Arrested Development - ZingalamaduniAlbum

i totally LOVE this album

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

go on, keep persuading me! it's a charity shop staple! wasn't it supposed to be their "weird" album?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Is easyCinema still going?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

yeah

heres the listing for MK:
This week at easyCinema
Milton Keynes (w/c 29 July)
CHARLIE AND CHOCOLATE FACTORY
SKELETON KEY
FANTASTIC FOUR
MADAGASCAR
DARK WATER
KICKING AND SCREAMING
WAR OF WORLDS
STAR WARS EPISODE III
BATMAN BEGINS
MR. AND MRS. SMITH
PACIFIER
LE CERCLE ROUGE
ROBOTS
CAT RETURNS
DUMA
SIN CITY
PAHELI (BOLLYWOOD)

seems pretty big selection. i dont get stelios' obsession with milton keynes. no one lives there!* no one walks the streets! pick a more normal town!

mind you, easy cinema is in the old point, which has that cool 80s red pyramid. maybe thats why stelios loves it so.

* yeah eyah gareth, i know. people do live there ;)

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Noone has lived there since ken c moved away

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

i dont get stelios' obsession with milton keynes. no one lives there!* no one walks the streets! pick a more normal town!

This is so true - just driving around at, ooh 8pm on a Tuesday night - deserted! It was like being in some kind of dystopian vision of Eastern Europe. I was half expecting a family of Chechnyan hover-droids to be sat next to me in the cinema.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 6 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

WTFF

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Don't you want to make it easy4yourself?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

i love that easycinema was playing 'le cercle rouge'.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

some things lend them selves to being provided in a stripped down, cheap way, (eg accomodation: if you go out to a club you dont give a shit about where you lay yr head

haha slut!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

easy4men male toiletries are now available in Boots stores across the UK. easy4men male toiletries are aimed at the no-nonsense man who does not care about expensive advertising featuring professional footballers or other models. With a range of nine products easy4men satisfies the basic male grooming needs of the man who is happy with who he is. The trademark bright orange packaging will be instantly recognisable to customers who will be able to make their purchases quickly and easily.
"Gillette is the British Airways of male toiletries!" said Stelios the serial entrepreneur and easyGroup chairman (pictured right). "Consumers have been paying huge companies like gillette or lynx, part of Unilever, too much for their male toiletries but now easy4men has introduced both great quality and great value into this market. Once again we're taking on the big guys on behalf of the little guy!"

The male grooming market is seeing continuous growth, with the male skin care market seeing a six-fold rise in the last five years and a male toiletries market worth £500m.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

don't diss easyCinema guys - it saved the UK's first ever multiplex cinema from closing down!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

woot!

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

census 2001

population milton keynes: 177,500
hitchin: 30,851

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

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