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Lamington Group Annual Conference 2025

01 February 2025

This year's annual conference was the best one yet! Two days of excitement, included mindfulness sessions, team-building exercises, departmental workshops, strategy planning and an inspiring talk from our Senior Leadership Teams and industry leaders in AI, Sustainability and Hospitality. In true Lamington Group style, we celebrated our colleagues and their achievements across the business.

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Hammersmith Townhouse | room2 hometels

12 June 2019

You can think of room2 Hammersmith as our Research & Development Lab. It’s a scaled-back version of a full Hometel, but still offers plenty of flexibility and all the home comforts you desire. The convenient location gives you the freedom to explore, create, work, or relax as you need, and treat as your own.

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Take a virtual tour of room2 Southampton

12 June 2019

The world's first hometel. Take all the comforts, flexibility and relaxed rules of your home, and all the security, comfort and services of a hotel and you get room2 Southampton.

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Overview of room2 hometels

05 August 2020

What is a hometel?

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The story of the world's first hometel brand - room2

27 August 2020

Storytime! Not many know of our journey, and here's Robert Godwin, one of our founders talking you through how the room2 hometel brand came about.

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Meet the room2 Southampton team!

03 September 2020

Say hello to our fantastic team at our flagship hometel in Southampton! Hear what they've got to say about being a roommate in the world's first hometel.

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room2 Chiswick | Ground Source Heat Pump

04 October 2021

To heat and cool our building we use heat pumps. 200m long loops extract heat energy from the earth and draw it to heating, and hot water. Reversing this process cools the building. Overall it’s 36% more efficient than a typical hotel.

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Tour of room2 Chiswick - The world's first Whole Life Net Zero hometel

30 September 2021

Welcome to the world's first whole life net zero carbon hotel! Here's a sneak peak at all of the sustainability features included in the building.

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Sustainability Series: Circular Hospitality

25 July 2025

We’re bringing circular hospitality to life – removing single-use items, creating ‘new’ products using our very own coffee grounds, and designing with materials like mycelium, orange peels, and recycled shampoo bottles.

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A Future Worth Building: Stories of Hope for People and Planet (Episode 1)

10 October 2025

From record-breaking heatwaves to rising sea levels, the climate emergency is changing the way we live. So how do we create a future where both people and the planet can thrive?