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Prefab hotel rooms.
Guest-room modules, built and inspected before they ship.
Factory-built guest rooms for resorts, holiday parks, lodges and nature stays — from a 14 m² folding room to a 74 m² unit with its own bathroom and kitchen. Each room arrives with its structure, envelope, services and interior already built, so site work reduces to foundations, setting, connection and commissioning.
What we do, and what we do not
We supply guest-room modules and low-rise accommodation. We are not a hotel general contractor, and we do not deliver mid-rise or high-rise hotel structures. If your programme is a tower, the right partner is a volumetric contractor working in your market — and you will get a straighter answer from us saying so now than from a quotation that unravels later.
Where we are useful: resort and holiday-park room stock, lodge and eco-tourism accommodation, staff and management housing on the same site, and phased programmes where room count grows season by season.
Room formats
Room type is a freight decision as much as a design decision. The format that photographs best is not always the one that lands cheapest per key.
| Format | Area | Guests | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Frame A24 | 24–30 m² | 2 guests | Single volume or panelized |
| Prism P24 | 24–28 m² | 2 guests | Single volume or split-width |
| Arc R35 | Approx. 34.5 m² | 2 guests | Panelized kit |
| Courtyard CY58 | 52–60 m² | 2–4 guests | Panelized kit |
| Apple cabin D1 / D2 / F2 | 38–52 m² | 2–4 guests | Finished volume; F2 splits into two container-legal modules |
| Expandable 10FT–40FT | 18.5–74 m² | 1–4 guests | Folds for transport, opens on site |
| Folding AP-F58 | 14 m² | 1–2 guests | Flat-pack, 12 per 40HQ |
Rooms per container
A room count becomes a container count before it becomes a budget. This is the conversion most programmes need first.
| Format | Rooms per 40HQ | Floor area per 40HQ |
|---|---|---|
| Folding AP-F58 | 12 rooms | 168 m² |
| Expandable Small 20FT | 6 rooms | 165 m² |
| Expandable 10FT | 4 rooms | 74 m² |
| Expandable 20FT | 2 rooms | 74 m² |
| Expandable 40FT | 1 room | 74 m² |
| Panelized cabin (Missouri residence) | 2 × 40HC per residence | 64.17 m² per residence |
| Apple cabin D1 / D2 | Out of gauge — flat rack | — |
Rooms with their own bathroom and kitchen take more container volume per key than rooms planned around a shared ablution block. Which is cheaper depends on your headcount and your plumbing runs, so we price both rather than assume. The arithmetic is set out in container mathematics.
What a project review needs from you
| Room mix | How many of each room type, and whether accessible or family rooms sit in the same programme. |
|---|---|
| Site and access | Ground conditions, the delivery route, crane standing and how many rooms can be set in a working day. |
| Utilities | Where power, water and drainage terminate, and whether rooms connect individually or through a service spine. |
| Wet areas | Whether every room carries its own bathroom or the scheme uses a shared ablution block — this changes both the model and the freight. |
| Phasing | Whether the programme opens in one phase or in tranches, which decides container batching. |
| Approvals | The local code pathway and who holds engineer-of-record responsibility at the destination. |
What the rooms are backed by
Guest rooms are judged by the finish and paid for on the schedule, so the part worth inspecting is what sits under both. One residence in the Missouri lakeside programme resolves to 1,154 positioned steel members, 1,426 connections, 9,947 structural checks, 69 factory-built panels, 2 × 40HC to site and a 170-step installation sequence with named hold points.
Those are another project's numbers, not your specification — what carries across is the level the work is taken to before anything is manufactured. You can open the model and inspect it, and the equivalent figures for your room mix are produced during project review.
How a room programme is quoted and ordered
- Minimum order is one unit, so a sample room before a full phase is a normal way to start.
- Batch production runs 20 to 25 days once the drawing set is approved.
- One figure for the agreed scope, with a written exclusions list beside it.
- Payment in three named stages — on contract signature, before dispatch once the build has passed inspection, and on commissioning.
- You, or an inspector you appoint, may attend the pre-dispatch inspection or inspect independently, at your cost.
- Five years on the structure, two years on the envelope, factory-fitted components and finishes.
Foundations, crane and lifting, utility connections, installation labour and local permits sit with the buyer. Engineering, manufacture, inspection, packing and the document set sit with us. The full split, and the terms behind each line above, are on warranty and responsibilities.
Prefab hotel room questions
What are prefab hotel rooms?
Guest rooms manufactured and finished in a factory, then delivered to site as complete volumes or as panel kits and assembled at prepared interfaces. The room arrives with its structure, envelope, services and interior already built and inspected, so site work reduces to foundations, setting, connection and commissioning.
Does AeroPodHomes build modular hotels?
We supply guest-room modules and low-rise accommodation for resorts, holiday parks, lodges and nature stays. We are not a hotel general contractor and do not deliver mid-rise or high-rise hotel structures. If your programme is a tower, the right partner is a volumetric contractor working in your market.
How many modular hotel rooms fit in a shipping container?
It depends on the format. Twelve folding rooms load into one 40HQ, six Small 20FT expandable rooms, two 20FT expandable rooms, and one each of the 30FT and 40FT. A panelized cabin such as the Missouri residence ships as 2 × 40HC per residence. Apple cabin D1 and D2 exceed a container door opening and move as out-of-gauge cargo.
What decides the cost of a modular hotel room?
Four things, in roughly this order: the format and how it ships, the room mix and whether each room carries its own wet area, the destination and its freight and duty treatment, and the local scope — foundations, crane, utility connections and installation labour, all of which sit with the buyer. We quote one figure for the agreed scope with a written exclusions list beside it.
How long does a modular guest-room order take?
Batch production runs 20 to 25 days once the drawing set is approved, before shipping. Drawing approval, freight and site installation are programmed separately and depend on the destination and the room count.
What evidence comes with the rooms?
A bill of materials, a structural calculation book, a container loading plan, a step-sequenced installation manual with named hold points, and the pre-dispatch inspection report. On the Missouri lakeside residences that meant 1,154 positioned steel members, 9,947 structural checks and a 170-step sequence for one residence.
Send the room mix and the site
Room count, room types, destination and whether wet areas are in the rooms or shared. That is enough for a project review that comes back with formats, container counts and what your site has to have ready.
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