Snoozebox is a

pop-up hotel A pop-up hotel is a hotel which is temporary, being at a location for a short time before being moved. Such hotels may be built from pre-fabricated modules which are plugged together on site or from collapsible structures such as tents or they may ...

company which used modified recycled shipping containers.

History

It was founded by leisure entrepreneur Robert Breare in 2011, with former Formula 1 racing driver

David Coulthard David Marshall Coulthard (; born 27 March 1971) is a British former racing driver from Scotland, later turned presenter, commentator and journalist. Nicknamed 'DC', he competed in 15 seasons of Formula One between and , taking 13 Grand Prix vi ...

as a principle. The portable hotels are found at many motorsports events and also at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at

Thorpe Park Thorpe Park Resort, commonly known as Thorpe Park, is an amusement park located in the village of Thorpe between the towns of Chertsey and Staines-upon-Thames in Surrey, England, southwest of Central London. It is operated by Merlin Entertai ...

's Crash Pad hotel. It reported a pretax loss of £2.3 million for the six months to June 30, less than the £5.1 million loss it reported in the first half of 2013. The company has formed a partnership with Medirest to test the patient hotel model at

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is the main provider of hospital services for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and North Powys. It runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, Oswestry Maternity Unit, and ...

. The contractor Bilfinger Salamis had planned a modular hotel, using Snoozebox's shipping containers, which would have 80 ensuite bedrooms for its skills and safety training centre in

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. The hotel was planned to be open for 5 years. A 58-room youth hostel, a partnership between the

Eden Project The Eden Project ( kw, Edenva) is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay pit, located from the town of St Blazey and from the larger town of St Austell.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS ...

and the Youth Hostel Association has been built entirely of shipping containers by the company in St Austell. The company entered administration in 2017.Irwin Mitchell https://www.irwinmitchell.com/news-and-insights/newsandmedia/2017/november/administrator-appointed-at-snoozebox-jq-614206

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Snoozebox
Companies based in Hampshire Hotel chains in the United Kingdom Portable buildings and shelters Companies established in 2011

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