Just Opened – Bloc Hotel, Birmingham

Inspired by Japanese pod-style hotels this is the first of a planned 10 hotels, located in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. It offers boutique-style bedrooms which - using an innovative build system - allow the rooms to be quickly stacked and wrapped to complement the surrounding environment

Opened 11 April
Owner Boxbuild
Operations director Olivier Delaunoy
Bedrooms 73
Facilities Each bedroom offers the perfect sleeping environment, as advised by a Scandinavian sleep research centre, with the temperature set at 18-20°C and a humidity of 30-40%. There are also Italian tiled wet rooms and drench showers and 32in LED flat-screen TVs
Price From £60
Address St Paul's, Caroline Street, Birmingham B3 1UG
Telephone 0121 2121223
Websitewww.blochotels.com