About theLAB
Eco-Conscious at theLAB Guesthouses
theLAB Voice | theLAB Automation
Green Thinking meets High-Tech meets Contemporary Styling meets Warm Hospitality
Our eco-conscious 'green' ethos,
- No single-use plastic – glass console bottles with free filtered (borehole) water, we reduce single use plastic together with the guests.
- Electric car. Our BMW i3s are fully electric and charge during solar production hours
- LED lighting: Philip Hue Led lighting system–low energy consumption (particularly blue light)
- Cleaning materials: we work with the local eco-friendly cleaning supplier Nurturer, 100% plant based, not tested on animals, 100% of the profit is for charity for youth development
- Our own vegetable garden
- We support the local and national industries by ordering from our local suppliers. Local wine from the area, fruits from the season and the area. We support the local and national industries by ordering from our local suppliers
Solar-derived energy
- Our solar system has the capacity to produce nearly 200MWh per year
- We are now producing almost as much as we are consuming (on an annual basis)
- We are consciously grid-tight, we chose not to have batteries that are environmentally unfriendly
- We supply our excess green energy back to the network and receive limited rebates for it
- With our energy monitoring system, we are starting to control our energy consumption levels and can time our consumption as much as possible during solar production hours
- From the desktop, the guesthouse manager can monitor and control power consumption. A notification warning gets sent to the email inbox when an appliance is in over-usage or abnormal usage
Airport Pick-up
Housekeeper Services
Wifi & Internet
Laundry Services
Breakfast included
Swimming Pool
Wellness Center
Concierge Service
Parking Space
Room Services
STAY, EXPLORE & EAT AT theLAB
theLAB brand is inspired by a labrador
High-tech automation and green hotel functions are developed in a tech laboratory and enrolled in theLAB guesthouses.
The abbreviation “theLAB” also stands for the LivinAfrica Box. This box is at the centre of our room automation and is nicely ’hidden’ in the rooms. Through theLAB room automation system, guests control functionalities in their room through buttons, switches or voice. This is a very novel concept in the guest house industry…
But what is most important to mention here, is that the brand is made around a special labrador, Einstein.
He was a character: an intelligent and very sweet dog, and everyone loved him.
Einstein was 16 years old (3/12/2018) when he left us, but we carry him all in our heart.
