How Copenhagen’s Hotel Ottilia became the world’s first hotel with ‘self-cleaning rooms’
Boutique property’s automatic disinfectant cleaning technology breaks down harmful microbes, such as bacteria, viruses and airborne mould spores
Staying in hotel rooms can often come with its own set of horrors.
What if the floors of rooms haven’t been dusted or mopped for weeks? Even worse, what if the curtains haven’t been dry cleaned for ages?
Well, for all you cleanliness freaks out there, there’s good news!
The boutique Hotel Ottilia, which opened its doors in January in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, is doing away with the need for manual cleaning – and thus ensuring 100 per cent tidiness.
Situated in a pair of former Carlsberg brewery buildings, the hotel uses automatic disinfectant cleaning technology in its rooms, which it says makes it the world’s first ever self-cleaning hotel.
Its ACT CleanCoat technology has been rolled out in partnership with Danish company ACT.Global.
The technology equips sunlight and titanium dioxide to do its job and comes with a Teflon-coating that can break down harmful microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, airborne mould spores and chemical compounds.
It uses a transparent antibacterial spray that works on steroids and can purify and deodorise the air for up to a year.