Pop-up Hashtag Hotels in administration

29 August 2019

Hashtag Hotels, which was only incorporated in March this year, is now in administration.

According to its website - which has now been pulled down as well as its other social media sites on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter - the company had 17 sites across the country. The cached Facebook page said these were "pop up hotels in amazing locations over the Summer". The London based company was renting out rooms, used by students in term time, to visitors throughout July and August.

As well as six locations in London, other Hashtag Hotel locations include Liverpool, Bangor, Dublin, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Bournemouth, Plymouth and Nottingham.

An email to various employees and reported by various news organisations said that due to the hotel chain's financial position, it was "not able" to make payments to staff for arrears of pay, holiday pay, redundancy pay or compensatory notice pay.

It said their employment had ended on August 28 "by reason of redundancy".

The letter to staff added that if they wanted to receive any due payments, they should make a claim online using the government website, adding that Leonard Curtis had been appointed as administrators.

According to the Hashtag Hotels website, the firm was founded by Nashon Cohen and Simon Gilbert, who had "become frustrated" with existing hotels "built on archaic technology and systems which lead to poor customer service and a laborious customer experience".

It promised to use "simple but unique tech themes and elements, which allows us to scale our solutions across a wide geographic area, alongside a large number of sites and guests".