Forget fighting for an open treadmill in the hotel gym; with HiltonÕs new room concept, you get a gym in your room all to yourself.
Given the rise in interest fitness and wellness, Hilton is rebranding some of their rooms to put exerciseÑrather than just a good nightÕs sleepÑas a priority. The rooms, calledÊFive Feet to Fitness, are part traditional hotel room, part miniature gym. The rooms are set with everything you need to get in a sweat sessionÑwhether cardio on a stationary bike or resistance training on TRX straps.
Gym Rax in the rooms contain everything you need to get in a workout.
ÒItÕs immediately obvious to those that see the room that we havenÕt just wheeled in a piece of cardio equipment or put a yoga mat in the cornerÑFive Feet to Fitness has been engineered from the sports performance floor up,Ó said Ryan Crabbe, HiltonÕs Senior Director of Global Wellness.
ÒThe ratio is roughlyÊtwo-thirdsÊguest room andÊone-thirdÊpersonal wellness stage, and we have three types of fitness bays to accommodate the different room configurations and ceiling heights of our hotels.Ó
A Wattbike in the room provides an option for cardio that wonÕt wake your neighbors.
The Five Feet to Fitness rooms, which are launching first at Hilton McLean Tysons CornerÊand HiltonÕs Parc 55 hotel in San Francisco, cost roughly $45 more per night than a standard room rate, said Mr Crabbe. That extra costs gets you a mini gym equipped with a touch screen pre-loaded with over 200 workouts, a Wattbike stationary bicycle, TRX straps, aÊfloor chair for meditation, weights, a yoga matt, an exercise ball, and complementary sports drinks like Zico coconut water and Vitamin Water.
While the Tysons CornerÊand San Francisco hotels are currently the only locations with the revamped rooms available, Mr Crabbe said the company is hoping to have over 100 such rooms available in other major cities before the end of 2017, with a minimum of three rooms per hotel that wants to adopt the Five Feet to Fitness model.
You donÕt have to squeeze a yoga mat at the end of the bed in the Five Feet to Fitness rooms.
Meanwhile, Mr Crabbe said that Hilton is also working to upgrade their hotel gyms, making changes in response to guestsÕ feedback.
ÒWe are offering the rooms as an option for travelers who want the convenience or privacy of having a personal gym and not a replacement for the hotel fitness center,Ó said MrÊCrabbe. ÒIn fact, weÕre simultaneously doing lots of work on our fitness centers to accommodate the type of movement our guests are telling us they want, such as opening up floor space to accommodate yoga or stretching and installing the tools for functional training such as TRX bands.Ó
Take a peak inside the rooms in the video below, then visit atÊHilton McLean Tysons Corner, 7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean.
