During the pandemic, the hotel industry juggled to survive. Among the range of strategies used, the rental of services per hour charged value and, in the porteño hotels, it is a modality that is here to stay.
Today you can hire the services of a hotel for three, six or twelve hours without the need to pay for a full stay. The most attractive thing is that you can use all the services of the hotel as a conventional guest.
On this is based the concept of Byhours, a platform of Catalan origin that today has a presence in 25 countries more than 4,000 hotel beds worked, which allows you to book by 3, 6 or 12 hours with the possibility of making use of all its services and at a lower price than that of a traditional stay.
How it works and what are the prices
The search platform works like any other to book hotels with the difference that it isYou can select the number of hours you want to rent.
For example, three hours in a double room at the Hotel Libertador costs A$10,000 ($2,700). While whoever makes a reservation for 12 hours must pay A$15,000 ($4,050).
90% of the Byhours offer is focused on the City of Buenos Aires and on category hotels. According to company representatives, during a pandemic those who used this service were residents who could not leave the country. Today that continues to happen in cities like Buenos Aires, especially on weekends.
The demand for these services grows especially in the summer months. Many seek to spend the day in the hotel to be able to use the swimming pool, the spa or the sauna. You have to have quotas and this means that perhaps the same room is used twice on the same day.
Airline delegations are an ideal audience for this proposal.
“In the hotels of our chain, the extension of the hours of the check out with the possibility of using the swimming pool, spa and dining room services. Hiring is cheap and when there is not much occupancy, we allow them to continue using the rooms,” added a hotelier who uses the Byhour system.
From the sector they assure that “not having a stipulated departure time gives guests greater freedom and the experience is better, which makes them choose the establishment again in the future.”
With information from El Cronista
