Every day during January 2012, umi hotels are offering rooms for just £20.12 per night, at each of the hotel group’s city locations: London, Brighton and Moscow (€20.12). Bookings must be placed on each hotel’s direct website using the promotion code “umi2012″ and the rate includes a continental breakfast. It’s first come, first served from [...]

Announcing the 2011 Global Youth Travel Award Winners This year’s World Youth and Student Travel Conference (WYSTC), held in Barcelona 20-23 September, played host to the inaugural Global Youth Travel Awards. The Awards formally recognise outstanding performers in several fields of youth travel and reward those members who contribute so much to our industry and [...]

Last night, at London’s IndigO2, the 2011 Smarta 100 awards ceremony took place and the UK’s most resourceful, original, exciting and disruptive small businesses celebrated their achievements.  We were presented with the special category award for People! Judged by TV star and entrepreneur Sarah Beeny King of Shaves founder Will King, Bebo founder Michael Birch, [...]

Smarta.com and O2 have named umi hotels as a winner in the 2011 Smarta 100 awards: a collection of the UK’s savviest, enterprising, most disruptive small businesses. We have also been listed within the top five businesses for the special “People” award for our work with young people. Voting is now under way to find [...]

umi hotels were the proud recipients of a UK Tourism Web Award this month, for their website www.umihotellondon.co.uk. The 2011 awards, in association with TravelMole and LeadGenerators, recognise excellence in online travel.  Umi won the “Accommodation over 20 rooms” category for their efforts in providing relevant, fresh and well-presented content to visitors of the website [...]