Hotel design in Batumi: standard rooms, lobby and corridors

Who stays in the hotel and what rooms they need

We start hotel design in Batumi with the guest. In summer families and groups of friends come here on holiday and spend all day on the beach, so they need the room for sleeping, keeping their things and taking a shower. Outside the season people come for the weekend or on business, and a guest like that needs a desk and quiet. A hotel that is open all year round has to suit both.

This decides the room mix: how many rooms with one bed, how many with two, how many family rooms, and whether connecting rooms are needed. The fewer the types, the simpler the design, the purchasing and the cleaning, so in a small hotel we usually bring the room stock down to two or three types and arrange them so that the bathrooms of neighbouring rooms back onto shared risers.

The standard room: dimensions we check on the plan

A room of one type is repeated dozens of times, and so is any mistake in it, so we check the dimensions on the plan and in 3D before the model room is built. Our guide figures:

If the room faces the sea, we place the bed so that the sea can be seen from the pillow, and hang the TV on a wall that doesn't compete with the window. At least one room near the lift or on a lower floor is designed for a wheelchair user: with a wide door, room to turn and a level-access shower.

Furniture and textiles that will last the season

We choose hotel furniture according to how the room is cleaned. The housekeeper has to get a vacuum cleaner under the bed, so the bed either stands on legs with at least 15 cm of clearance or on a solid plinth down to the floor, which dust can't get under. The headboard is fixed to the wall: that way the bed doesn't shift and knock the finish.

We design furniture without sharp corners at knee height. For curtains, bedspreads and armchairs we choose contract fabrics with high abrasion resistance and removable covers, in a palette that doesn't show coffee or sunscreen stains. Wall guards, the luggage rack and the panel behind the headboard are drawn on the wall elevations from the start, so that they are part of the interior rather than add-ons.

Lobby, reception and corridors

We make the reception desk at two heights: one section about 110 cm high for talking standing up, and another about 75 cm high, where it is comfortable to sign papers sitting down or from a wheelchair. Next to it you need a room or cupboard for luggage, because guests often check out in the morning and fly out in the evening. If the hotel serves breakfast, we plan the breakfast area away from the check-in queue, and design its kitchen and seating the same way as a restaurant dining room.

The corridor works as wayfinding. Room numbers and signs should be readable from the lift, the light by the doors is brighter than between them, and evacuation plans and exit signs are placed according to the fire safety requirements, which we clarify before the design. The corridor floor and walls are a shade darker than in the rooms: trolley marks show less on them.

Aparthotels and units with different owners

Batumi has many aparthotels in residential towers: the units belong to different owners, but a single operator sells them. In that case the design becomes a standard, a design book with the layout of each type, the finishes, furniture and lighting, from which any owner can fit out their unit the same way as the neighbours. We make such a book for the operator, or adapt your unit to an existing standard.

How the operator then sells and services the room stock is described on the page about aparthotel management. If you have a single apartment for short-term rental, a closer fit is design for a short-term rental apartment.

The model room and the roll-out

We test the standard room drawings on a model room: the contractor builds one room completely and starts on the rest only after it has been checked. How the fit-out and renovation proceed in blocks is explained on the page about hotel room renovation. We walk through the model room with you and look for what 3D doesn't show: whether the socket heights match the wall elevations, whether the bathroom door catches the open wardrobe, whether the window causes glare on the TV.

We put the comments into the drawings and the specification and issue a corrected version with a list of changes, and the purchasing for the whole room stock is calculated from it. The quantity of each item in the specification is given by room type, so the estimate comes together without recounting on site.

How much hotel design costs in Batumi

A hotel design project costs from 110 to 160 ₾ per m²: the price covers the lobby, corridors and rooms, 3D, working drawings and the furniture specification. A guest house or a mini-hotel without a lobby often needs only a design for a standard room with a bathroom, from 3,900 to 5,400 ₾. This is the price for one type: we design one room with 3D and a furniture specification, and the contractor builds every room of that type from these sheets. Two room types mean two designs.

Renovation and furniture are not included in the design price: renovating each room with its bathroom costs from 15,600 ₾, and a mid-range furniture and appliances package from 360 ₾ per m². Varied room types, a restaurant or spa within the hotel and made-to-measure furniture push the design price up; a single repeated room type brings it down. We give a preliminary price from the floor plans, and the final cost is set after the measured survey, once the project scope is agreed.