It may not be the ideal option for hardened travellers to have a cinema inside the hotel itself. If you’re a movie buff, you could be tempted to stay put in the hotel and miss out some of the city’s important tourist spots, and let’s face it, this would be inexcusable. However, having a projection room in the hotel can be an enticing factor that very few establishments in the world can offer. Here are some of our favourites…
We begin with the Hotel Villa Honegg in Ennetbürgen, Switzerland. This charming boutique hotel, very close to Lucerne, received a complete makeover in 2011, including a new cinema room with seating for 20 people boasting incredible acoustics that also allows it to double up as a recording room or radio set. A delight for the senses in the Alps.
Our next example takes us across the pond to the AWA Hotel in the touristic enclave of Punta del Este in Uruguay. This was the first hotel in the world to provide a high-tech personal home cinema onsite boasting gold connectors and gas injection technology in its wiring and seating for eight people. It’s impossible to find anything else like it on the planet, and did I mention the room was named after Tarantino.
The next “hotel cinema” takes us back to Spain, to the Convento de Mave Hotel in Palencia, located in a 12 th-century monastery. After recent renovations, the hotel now has a projection room concealed inside one of its rooms. The “cinema” appears at the touch of a button that domotically transforms the room into a minimalist cinema that’s sure to wow even the most discerning moviegoers.
There are also other formats of the cinema/hotel hybrid like Screening Rooms, which aren’t exactly rooms for customers but more for commercial purposes, exhibitions or side events. Another clear example is the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York or the W Leicester in London. These are luxurious rooms boasting the very best high-end technology to cater for the world of showbiz.
Then we also have themed hotels, which are more often than not located in old cinema houses to give them a certain air of mystery and character that from a marketing perspective is extremely beneficial. Examples include the Astoria 7 in San Sebastian, the Cinema Hotel in Tel Aviv and the Hotel Vincci Capital in the Cine Capital building in Madrid, one of the oldest and most legendary in Spain.
