Hotel Haiku
News: Hotel Haiku was named by The Independent as one of the 50 Best Travel Websites and was the featured Website of the Week in the Daily Mail.
Launched on March 1st 2011, Hotel Haiku is a refreshingly different hotel website with a unique twist: the only description for each hotel, or notel, featured on the site, is expressed as a haiku, a form of Japanese poetry.
The site is curated by Garri Rayner, who is also the author of the haiku poems.
Although the site sports a cutting-edge design, it can be browsed easily and quickly. Visitors can also use the following keyboard shortcuts to navigate their way around the content at lightning speed:
J — next post
K — previous post
I — index
H — top of page
R — random post
Hotel Haiku is the first in a series of niche accommodation sites we’re planning to launch throughout 2012, though not all of them will have such a quirky idea as Hotel Haiku!
Follow Hotel Haiku on Twitter for updates.
Hotel Haiku has been the subject of the following articles:
- The Independent: Hotel Haiku named as one of the 50 Best Travel Websites
- The Daily Mail: Hotel Haiku – Website of the Week
- BBC Travel: Hotel Haiku puts poetry into hotel booking
- Tnooz: High-brow hotel search arrives – select by haiku description
- This French Life: Hotel Haiku brings a poetic style to the web
- National Geographic Traveler: The Radar
- Pauline Frommer’s Daily Briefing: Poetry in Hotel Search
- The CMO Site: Hotel Haiku, minimalist marketing
- Happy Hotelier: Would you consider staying in a Notel instead of a Hotel?
- Hotel Chatter: Would you book a hotel based on a haiku about the place?