Bed and breakbeat: guests go crate-digging at UK’s only ‘vinyl hotel’

Vinyl Pimp, in Hackney, east London, offers free night in warehouse to a guest spending £250 or more on records

“Most of the guests are a little twitchy when it comes to checkout because they haven’t slept,” says Valentine Comar. The French DJ is standing between towers of shelving that house more than 27,000 records at her workplace – the UK’s only “vinyl hotel”.

The one-room lodging offers a unique proposition: a free night’s stay at an east London warehouse stocked with every genre of music, on the condition that a guest spends £250 or more on records (and a further £100 for each extra guest).