Sol Wave House on the Balearic Island of Mallorca in Spain is the world’s first Twitter-themed hotel, and loves a 140-character message. Tweet a message as you check in and share your best moments online as part of its #SocialWave community. If you’re a novice, the dedicated Twitter Concierge can help you sort out your hashtags from your breakfast buffet hash browns.

If you’re a fan of the selfie, then you’ll love the 90-bedroom 1888 Hotel in Pyrmont, Sydney. The management are Instagram-obsessed, and have set up a “selfie space” in the lobby: you take a picture to check in, which is instantly uploaded onto a screen beside the reception. They’ve also enlisted the help of a local blogger, Emily Fang of Little Black Book, to create the ultimate insta-walk, a photo tour of the nearby Darling Harbour, and if you’re an Instagram expert with 10,000 or more followers, they’ll let you stay for free. The hotel’s motto? Every level has an Instagram view.

It was only a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of replacing a room key with a piece of electronic fashion. Now both the Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel (above) and the Hard Rock Hotel Ibiza in Spain give you the option of purchasing a €29 (S$45) bracelet (dubbed a VIB, or Very Important Bracelet) that not only gives you access to your room, but lets you pay for food, drinks at the bar and skip lines for check-in and check-out. No more worrying about where to stash your room key when you go swimming. The only thing it can’t do is stop you from over-spending at the hotel shops, where you’ll also receive discounts.

Dutch hotel chain Citizen M has being doing some very cool things for the past decade, such as ditching the trouser press and bell boys. Now with outposts in New York, Paris, London, Amsterdam and Glasgow, they let you personalise everything in your room with a mood pad. Tweak the ambient lighting, room temperature, blinds, the time of your alarm – everything is driven by technology. Better still, there are tablets in the lobby, designed like a living room, for you to play with. They also offer virtual check-ins, which you can do with just a few touches on a screen.

Yotel – from those same people who gave the world the Yo Sushi fast-food chain – is a budget chain with properties in London, Amsterdam and New York. They’ve gone all Star Trek with the most out-there high-tech hotel development yet: a robot concierge (above) at their New York City outpost. As the hotel was built by aircraft designers to maximise space (rooms are called cabins because of their diminutive size), the 6m-tall “Yobot” helps place luggage in lockers instead. But the robot isn’t just a one-off gimmick. The hotel also has an automated check-in system, bars and restaurants.

An adapted version first appeared in Silverkris. 

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