The Big Sleep Hotel (Cardiff)

I first came across this hotel in a travel magazine that advertised the hotel as “The UK’s first design hotel for budget travellers”. The Big Sleep, in Cardiff City centre is a former British Gas office building that has been converted into hotel rooms, with an emphasis on retrospective styling. As you first enter the hotel stairwell, you are greeted by an enormous framed photograph of the actor John Malkovich – I later discovered that The Big Sleep is actually owned by the Hollywood star. LOCATION The Big Sleep can be found on Bute Terrace, a fairly busy road in the centre of Cardiff, which is shared with a number of other large hotels including ...