Check Out the Tenthouse Suite at Glastonbury’s Pop-Up Hotel

Tenthouse suite

Have you ever heard of a pop-up hotel? If you haven’t, that’s okay. I hadn’t either until today, when I saw pictures of the amazing tenthouse suite at Glastonbury’s Pop-Up Hotel. (The lounge area inside of the suite is pictured above.)

Glastonbury’s Pop-Up Hotel features over 150 canvas bell tents and well-kept facilities, providing the majority of comforts that any typical, conventional hotel offers. The hotel’s managing director, Mark Sorrill, initially got the idea for the pop-up hotel after being in the Caribbean for over a decade, working on property development. Before leaving the Caribbean, Sorrill created a thatched hut resort in Grand Cayman and then decided to take his new styles and practices and implement them back home in Somerset, England.

“After I returned home to Somerset, I decided to take my flair for design and began planning for the Pop-Up hotel,” stated Sorrill. “Glastonbury 2011 is where the Pop-up made its first appearance, and it’s really taken off from there. We really aim to design the tents and hotel to match the surroundings, so naturally for Glastonbury, we try and make the tents quite arty, but still very classic and British. It takes 20 to 30 people around two and half weeks to set up the site for the festival.”

Some of the many fabulous attractions that pop-up hotel provides are a 200-seat restaurant and bar, luxury shower and make-up areas, and an on-site spa. However,  the most notable part of the Glastonbury Pop-Up Hotel is the 2,000 square foot “tenthouse suite,” which possesses four luxury bedrooms, two full bathrooms, and a large lounge and dining area. Up to eight people can stay inside the suite, and it will cost guests £8,950 for a minimal five night stay.

“We try our best to offer our guests an experience,” said, Sorrill, “- not just a hotel stay.”

It’s safe to say that the Glastonbury Pop-Up Tent, and the tenthouse suite specifically, are definitely unlike any hotel experience I’ve ever heard of before.

Photo via Daily Mail

Written by Chris King

Chris has been writing for TVOvermind, Uncoached, and Worthly for two years and has written about numerous different television shows, news events, and pop culture topics. He is a graduate of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, where he majored in English and Film. Contact him through Twitter (@ckinger13).