Dubai – 23 December 2016
Not content with just offering fast hotel reservations on mobile and desktop, hotels.com set a new Guinness World Records title for the World’s Fastest Mobile Bed in the United Arab Emirates on December 13, 2016. The hi-octane feat saw a Hotels.com bed, based on a modified Ford Mustang GT, traveling at almost 84 miles per hour.
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The Guinness World Records title was claimed during an event at the purpose-built Emirates Motorplex dragstrip in the emirate of Um Al Quwain by renowned international racing driver Tom Onslow-Cole on 13 December 2016, at a verified speed of 135 kilometers per hour [almost 84 miles per hour]. An adjudicator from Guinness World Records was present and confirmed the new record for ‘Fastest Mobile Bed’, beating the previous record of 111 kilometers per hour [69 miles per hour] which was held in the UK since 2008.
Tom Onslow-Cole, driver of the World’s Fastest Bed, said: “As an international racing driver, I travel the world and use Hotels.com wherever I stay, so I already knew they could deliver a fast bed via the app and online – now I know they can deliver it on track, too! I was made-up to take the World’s Fastest Bed Record with Hotels.com, it was an unforgettable experience and I hope it’ll stand the test of time – it’ll take some beating!”