07/01/2011

A luxury hotel in London is the most recent to take on the trend of all-ladies rooms

Despite a recent ruling in Copenhagen that found female rooms to be illegal under laws of discrimination, a hotel in London has decided to join in with the trend and begin to offer suites especially for women.  

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 “Duchesses” to have their own rooms at the Dukes Hotel in London

London’s Dukes Hotel announced on December 8th its plans for the addition of its new “Duchess Rooms,” which will consist of rooms packed with treats to lure in both individual female travellers and groups of female travellers.  
The service for these rooms will consist solely of female attendants and will contain specialty items like hair styling accessories, makeup mirrors, and even magazines.
The Duchess rooms will be filled with flowers and female amenities will be provided in the bathrooms.
Debrah Dhugga, the Dukes’ general manager, was the one to suggest these Duchess Rooms. The rooms hope to be quite popular with the Dukes’ customers and will hopefully not gain the same publicity as the Bella Sky Hotel did when it introduced its female rooms.  
Having opened just last year as Europe’s largest design hotel, the Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen decided to designate a whole floor to its female customers and added all the extra amenities intended to keep them content.
Although the move seemed innocent enough, the property was brought to the attention of Denmark’s Equal Treatment Board by a member of the public, and was last month ruled as illegal.
Although the hotel was ordered to allow access for men on its designated “female only” floor, a spokesperson has told the AFP that it will defy the law and that, “the only man who can access this floor will be a fireman in the case of fire.”