text: You can now book a London hotel stay by the number of hours you need the room for rather than by the number of nights you intend to stay. While booking hotels by the hour may have a somewhat seedy reputation, one company is allowing businessman and women and those who need a short rest to book well-known London hotels in three-hour blocks. Barcelona-based booking platform ByHours allows users to organise stays of three, six and 12 hours, and it has already got 25 hotels in the capital on board. You can enjoy the luxury of the Academy Hotel in London for a three-hour slot with ByHours.com . The App allows the user to select their area, and then their time slot, to be then shown a list of available hotels . The company's objective is to acquire more hotels in London during the next few months, and then start to work in other cities such as Berlin and Paris. In London, hotels that it has signed up include H10 Waterloo, The Kingsway Hall Hotel, Yotel Heathrow and Gatwick, Crowne Plaza London - The City, Academy Hotel, and Threadneedles, Marriott Autograph Collection. A spokesperson for the company told MailOnline Travel: 'In total, we work with 1,500 hotels in Spain and the UK and we have done more than 150,000 transactions in 2014, an increase of 150 per cent compared to the previous year. 'We work with hotels with three to five star rating, but 80 per cent of our hotels are four stars hotels. 'We have been focusing on hotels next to airports, train stations, city centers, convention areas and also hospitals, and now, we are scaling the business model in UK, with the same strategy.' Founder of ByHours.com Christian Rodriguez has been so successful in the Spanish market he has switched his focus to the UK . The Threadneedles Marriot could be a nice stopover for 12 hours, enough time for sleep and a shower . The main key of ByHours.com is that the platform benefits the customer, but also the hotelier. The customers have the flexibility, and they can book and pay for the time they use the room. But the hotels can sell the rooms more than once a day, and increase the revenue per available room. It's a totally complementary product, and with ByHours.com's tool, hotels can decide prices, hours of check-in, if they want to re-sell rooms (depending on their cleaning service), or availability for each week. The KIngsway Hall hotel has signed up to ByHours to offer a variation on the one-night stay . The four-star H10 London Waterloo is up for grabs to tourists visiting London who require less than a one-night stayover . The platform works real time, and the company have a 24/7 Customer Service for both the hoteliers and the customers. The founder of the company is 31-year-old Christian Rodriguez. He is a 'serial entrepreneur', he has founded six companies before ByHours.com, but this is the first one that is in the travel sector. ByHours.com were named as Best Startup of the Year in Spain 2012, Best App 2014, and are one of the 20 best PYMES (little and medium companies) to work in Great Place to Work.
target: ByHours.com offer three, six and 12 hour hotel stayovers .
  Academy Hotel and Threadneedles Marriot in London have signed up .
  Company have around 1,500 hotels signed up in their native Spain .