Motel One Group

Motel One Q1 2025: With its consistent focus on central city locations, supported by new strategic steps, Motel One continues to prove itself robust and successful. The equity ratio has fallen slightly.

Motel One Group FY 2024: Motel One Group sets a strong example in a challenging market environment with revenue growth of 15% to EUR 980 million in financial year 2024. 

With the new slogan "Switch On - beOne", the Motel One Group is promoting the further development of its membership programme. Members should benefit immediately from this as it does not require a complicated points system.

Eight funds managing 26 billion euros in assets, this is PAI Partners (PAI), the new 80 percent owner of Motel One. Following this week's "Breaking News", hospitalityInside did some research.

The news broke this morning via financial media: Motel One founder Dieter Müller is selling a majority stake in his company to the French private equity group PAI Partners. The European financial investor is taking over 80% of the operating business of the Munich hotel chain, as the two companies announced. hospitalityInside spoke spontaneously with Dieter Müller.

The Motel One Group is testing a new concept for its young design brand The Cloud One in Florida: the group's second project in the USA will also offer condos - including rooms with up to three bedrooms and penthouses. 

Trendy hotels often have short renovation cycles. Furnishings are replaced during redesigns before they are worn out. Motel One has set up a C2C pilot project to at least reuse the valuable raw materials.

The announcement about the almost doubled earnings before taxes (EBT, 2023 vs 2022) in Motel One's press release this week was as modestly worded as the announcement that the company intends to go public. We asked the founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Dieter Müller.

An overnight stay in Europe's first The Cloud One in Hamburg costs only €10-20 more per room than in the budget design hotel Motel One. On the other hand, breakfast is twice as sumptuous, and a number of the new brand's hotels in southern countries will also have a rooftop pool. Is this lifestyle brand shaking Motel One's profitable space efficiency? Never, management says.  

Last night, the Motel One Group celebrated the opening of its first Cloud One hotel in Europe with 1,000 party guests in Hamburg: the first lifestyle hotel that carries the DNA of its budget sister, but aims to be more upscale, local and exclusive.