UK: US-based hospitality company Sonder is expanding its serviced apartment offering in Scotland and continues to open properties across Europe
Sonder is increasing the number of apartments in its Royal Garden Apartments in Edinburgh from 30 to 41.
The apartments, opposite the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, offer studio, one-bed and two-bed apartments with kitchen areas and laundry facilities.
Oliver Armitstead, regional director of real estate at Sonder, said: “As a high-growth global hospitality company, we are excited to expand our unique design and tech-powered hospitality offering across the United Kingdom & Ireland”.
Sonder has a mobile app which enables guests to be in control of their bookings. They can access bookings, interact with guest services, and check-out using the app.
Armitstead added: “The modern traveler demands digital service and thoughtful design, both of which we deliver across our portfolio worldwide.”
Based in San Francisco, Sonder operates in more than 35 cities and across ten countries and has approximately 18,100 live and contracted units worldwide. The Edinburgh addition is part of a major push in the UK by Sonder, which will soon have 28 properties across the UK and Ireland. In Dublin, Sonder will open its first hotel in the city, with 26 keys, on Leeson Street later this year and has contracted an additional 91 units in the Dublin 1 area.
The Leeson Street hotel is a historic, 19th-century Georgian building undergoing updates, located close to St Stephen’s Green park. These operations are in addition to Sonder’s two existing serviced apartment properties in Dublin.
Sonder also announced today it is opening two hotels in Spain. One hotel will open in Madrid in 2024 and another in Barcelona later this year. The Madrid property will complement Sonder’s current serviced apartment offering, the 22-unit Sonder Malasaña, which opened in January 2021.
Sonder went public in January this year with a valuation of more than $1.9 billion.
Martin Picard, spoke recently about Sonder’s expansion and how it adapted during the pandemic.
