The ideal experience when staying at a hotel is that you want it to feel like coming home - only better. A home where the decor is sharp, slick and stylish, where you don’t have to do any cleaning or washing up, and where the people who live there are genuinely happy to see you (if all that genuinely describes your actual home, then we’re pretty jealous, to be honest). voco hotels like to do things in a relaxed, laid-back, and totally unstuffy way - when you check in, you’re made to feel like a friend, then you’ll be left to it as much as you want to be, knowing that voco’s thoughtful and efficient hosts are just a minute away.
The name voco, IHG’s fastest growing upscale brand, comes from the Latin, meaning ‘to invite’ and ‘call together’, and you’ll feel that sense of being welcomed and looked after from the moment you check in to when you sadly must depart. There’s a little treat inspired by your location to greet you on arrival, your room contains an indulgent bed to guarantee the best possible night’s sleep, and the bar, lounge and dining areas are alluring yet intimate places to spend your time. Food and drink is key to voco; you’ll find upscale offerings at any time of day, from breakfast right through to your nightcap.
Sustainability is an equally important consideration, and here voco hotels work to rise to the occasion; they want to do their best for the environment, applying the same care with which they look after their guests. At many voco hotels, you’ll find recycled pillow and duvet fillings, refillable plant-based bathroom amenities, aerated shower heads that can reduce water consumption, and filtered water with reusable glass bottles to reduce single use plastic. Certain individual hotels are championing a range of pilot initiatives, like using estate, garden-grown vegetables on the menu at voco Kirkton Park Hunter Valley; producing their own honey from the 300,000 bees on the rooftop at voco Gold Coast; and planting a tree for every night a guest at voco The Hague chooses to skip having their room cleaned.
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Other partnerships being trialled in select voco hotels include working with Olio, an app which helps businesses to share surplus food with local people and prevent it from going to waste, as well as Klimato, which adds carbon labelling to menus to help diners make informed choices about the food they order. Everything has been carefully considered here, so come on in for some me time. Staying somewhere stylish and feeling good about your choices? It’s so loco, it’s voco...
For more information, visit vocohotels.com and @vocohotels.
