Will the iHotel accept reservations from the public, or will it be limited to business guests of Apple? Will the suites be branded iHotel Pro?
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Apple Adding 192-Room Hotel to Upcoming Austin Campus
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Almost certainly not open to the public. It’s a corporate campus, not a public venue, not a Holiday Inn.
Organizations with large campuses and frequent visitors, like the US Navy and universities run their own hotels (or rather, they have contractors run hotels built on their land). It doesn't imply that there's going to be Stanford homes.
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It will probably be a local hotel management group that you probably never heard of, potentially operating under a franchise agreement with Marriott or such. Almost all major hotel chain locations are franchises to begin with. Often the actual owners of the hotel contract out to a management group who does the actual operation under the franchise agreement.
This. If Apple were my company, I would stay off-campus at a Marriott/Hilton property. All in one campuses have no work/life balance and create HR issues outside of business hours. No thanks.
Makes sense. I used to spend a lot of time in Austin. Cool city.
Hotels were always busy and I preferred stay in one place - so had to book 3-4 weeks out if I wanted the same hotel every week.
Hotels were always busy and I preferred stay in one place - so had to book 3-4 weeks out if I wanted the same hotel every week.
The work/life balance is for your primary place of work. When you travel on the company dime where they pay air fare, hotel, food, transportation and so forth, then a 5 day work week of travel can easily become $2500 in cost. If AAPL has 47,000 employees in the US and 5% are on travel at any given time, then that's $1.2 million/day. Hotels in Austin, TX get booked up fast at different times of the year like SXSW in the spring. A clean 3-star property like a Marriot/Hilton in Austin will run about $200/night.
The hotel at AAPL's Austin campus can be a 3-4 star property costing AAPL less than $100/night with good food choices with Uber/taxi facilities for those who want to go somewhere else for the evening.
Wait 'til you see how unapologetically thin and sleek the mattresses are.
Not in Texas it ain't. And we Yanks ain't gonna apologize if you take offense with our local color.
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I know some people, on business trips, like to troll bars looking for local companionship; personally, I would prefer to take the opportunity to get to know people with whom I already have a kind of connection.
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Sure, why go back home to rest with your family when you can just check in the hotel next door, get a quick nap and get back to work in a couple of hours. You just end up living in your office...I mean "compus"...and vist your house ocasionally.
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One thing is an airline which by default implies that its employees travel non-stop to do their job and having own hotel is convenient, but for a tech company where almost everything can be done remotely/via conference call, it is somehow absurd. I see employees living directly in the campus between the iHotel, iCafeteria, iGim and their desk. At the end, it is a good strategy to have you employees 100% of their time at your disposition in your corporate property.
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"Hey Siri, give us a hint" - Sept 2015 iPhone eventRoom service by Siri.
"Hey Siri, give us a hint (at what's coming on my bed tonight)" - Apple Hotel 2020
Fair point, but they can just sign a contract with the nearest hotel for Apple exclusive use without the need to enter themself in non-essential secondary activity like a hotel operation. I see many workers using the compus hotel just to avoid having to travel back to home and work overtime without at leats 8 hours between shifts. I work in a big corporation and many of my colleagues leave the building just to get some sleep and shower and get back to their desk in less than 6 hours. At the end you stop living and just work. Is it convenient? Yes, absolutely. Should Apple promote not leaving the campus because they offer your everything you may need? No. I would rather prefer a Hilton in the downtown and get some walk and explore the city in my free time than remain in the campus.
I would rather just stay in at my hotel. Thank god I don’t have to travel for work. I hate traveling.
It's still much cheaper than the Bay Area. You can get a 3/2 house in Austin proper under $500k still.