Snoozebox

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Snoozebox is a pop-up hotel company that uses modified, recycled shipping containers as temporary rooms. It was founded in 2011 by Robert Breare, with former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard as a key partner. The portable hotels have appeared at motorsport events, the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Thorpe Park’s Crash Pad hotel.

In the first half of 2013 they reported larger losses, but for six months up to June 30 the pretax loss was £2.3 million, down from £5.1 million in the previous half year.

The company has explored partnerships, including a deal with Medirest to test patient hotels at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. Bilfinger Salamis planned a modular hotel using Snoozebox containers for an 80-bedroom training centre in Aberdeen, expected to run for five years. Snoozebox also built a 58-room youth hostel in St Austell, created entirely from shipping containers, in a project with the Eden Project and the Youth Hostel Association. The flagship Snoozebox hotel is in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.