Depending on the length of your stay, or perhaps your point of view, Roost Rainey is either an apartment with a hotel-style concierge and amenities or a hotel with livable, apartment-style rooms, full kitchens, and laundry appliances. We’ve entered the era of the “apartment hotel,” an increasingly popular model that serves as hospitality’s answer to Airbnb, allowing patrons and developers alike to have it both ways.Opened this January on Rainey Street, one of Austin’s busiest entertainment districts, Roost Rainey is a standout example of the national trend’s arrival in Texas. The apartment hotel has 59 rooms between the fourteenth and seventeenth floors of the new 48-story Paseo high-rise developed by Austin-based LV Collective. Guests can check in for one night or one hundred nights and…The post The Hotel Industry’s Answer to Airbnb Has Arrived appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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