Living Hotels: 6 Boutique Stays Designed to Feel Like Home

The Bermonds Locke Hotel, by Holloway Li, is designed to be lived in. Fully functional in-room kitchens and laundry facilities make sure longer-term guests are comfortable. Image © Edmund Dabney

No matter how long, how far, or how restful a trip away is, one of the most relaxing moments of any vacation is when you get home. When every muscle in the body relaxes as you collapse into your own chair, greeted by the comforting features of a home you didn’t previously realize you missed.

After the rise of Airbnb and other likeminded travel accommodation sites and services, providing real homes –or at least characterful spaces dressed up as them– to travelers searching for more familial home comforts, hoteliers, designers, and architects are taking note, and implementing features that turn the hotel room into a home away from home.

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