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Good planets, like hotels, are hard to find.
Let's make more sustainable travel The Usual.

Hotels are full of hidden impacts. And we’re coming for them.

It’s time for hidden impacts to become unhidden. We aim to sniff them out, bring them to the surface and then minimize or transform them into positives for our guests, the local community, and the planet.  

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Good things happen at The Usual

When it comes to the perfect city stay, The Usual playbook is anything but usual. Come for the eco-conscious design-hotel experience. Stay for the warm atmosphere, where guests feel like friends. Every aspect of The Usual is driven by experience: human, energetic, and social. Whether you’re a guest, or local - good things happen at The Usual. 

Regenerative hospitality is a fresh way of thinking about tourism. Instead of just trying to offset negative impacts with good actions, like in many sustainable practices, it's about making things better. It focuses on prioritizing the active contribution to the regeneration of our environment and local communities.

Say hello to regenerative tourism

Regenerative hospitality is a fresh way of thinking about tourism. Instead of just trying to offset negative impacts with good actions, like in many sustainable practices, it's about making things better. It focuses on prioritizing the active contribution to the regeneration of our environment and local communities.

Single-use Plastic and Waste Free

Our responsible and circular purchasing policy is focused on minimal waste, biodegradable packaging, and no single-use plastics. Our Food & Beverage department is already single-use plastic and waste-free. We aim to become fully zero-waste, companywide in 2030.

Circular by Design

All our furniture is made from sustainable, circular, or biobased materials. Our mattresses are 100% circular. Each material in our hotels has been handpicked based on our principles. The wood we use is from managed forests that have FSC certifications, and the base of our custom-made furniture is from recycled wood chips.

100% Organic, 70% Local

Engaging with the local community, 100% of our food is organic and 70% is local. We have independently verified all our partners. To strengthen our promise, all our partners adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct.

Certified Sustainable

Our buildings will all be BREAAM In-Use certified at Level Excellent, with our Rotterdam and Antwerp locations slated to be one of the first hotels to receive the Outstanding Level in Europe. Our operations will be further sustainably certified by ​​Green Key.

Water Donations

We compensate for the water usage of our guests. For each night at our hotel, we donate 100 litres of clean drinking water in a developing country through MadeBlue Foundation.

100% Renewable Energy

We are a 100% driven by renewable energy and have onsite green energy production through solar panels whenever our roofs can support it. Our hotels in Rotterdam, Antwerp and Belgium are fully off the gas grid.

Our incredible partners

Yumeko Bedding
Yumeko

At Yumeko, they do everything they can to let people sleep well and wake up. With the softest bedding and bath linen made from the finest materials and with the highest possible attention to the environment, people, and animals.

Moyee Coffee
Moyee Coffee

What better to wake up to then the world's first fairchain coffee? Moyee tastes like radically good coffee with a radical impact.

Auping Circular Mattresses
Auping's fully circular Mattresses

Know what you sleep on with Auping. The Auping Revive Circular mattress was developed together with Niaga®. They have recorded the (origin of) all materials in the Product Passport. By scanning the Niaga® label on the side of the mattress with your smartphone, you can see exactly what the mattress is made of.

the good floor
The Good Floor

Rotterdam-based company CLEAR RIVERS collects plastic waste with their Litter Traps placed in the New Meuse river. The usable collected plastics are sorted, chipped and recycled by The Good Floor into a flooring solution.

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Let's build together

Want to join forces for sustainable travel? Hit us up: partners@theusual.com

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Our community initiatives

In each city, we look for local charities that have a connection to our social and environmental sustainable goals to support and collaborate with. From plastic retrieval to regenerative urban farming projects, we're excited to launch these upcoming partnerships alongside the opening of our hotels.

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