The Met Hotel Leeds

The Hotel

Situated in the heart of Leeds city centre, The Met Leeds occupies a distinctive position in Yorkshire's hospitality landscape. This contemporary boutique hotel combines urban style with northern warmth, offering guests a design-led stay within walking distance of the city's vibrant shopping quarter, thriving business district, and cultural attractions.

With its sleek exterior and modern interior design, The Met Hotel caters to both leisure travellers seeking a stylish city break and business guests requiring comfort and connectivity. Inside are around 125 contemporary bedrooms, free Wi-Fi throughout, and all-day dining at Gott’s Bar & Kitchen. Meetings and events are a core part of the offer: nine flexible spaces culminate in The Met Ballroom, a 240 m² showpiece with a 4.7 m ceiling that hosts up to 250 theatre or banquet, supported by additional rooms for board meetings and breakouts.

The Technology

As guest expectations continue to evolve—with streaming services, personalised content, and seamless connectivity now standard in everyday life—The Met Hotel recognised the need to elevate its in-room entertainment offering to match its contemporary positioning.

Airwave partnered with property to deliver a comprehensive entertainment solution that balances sophistication with simplicity, creating an intuitive guest experience backed by robust infrastructure.

LG UR762H Series Hospitality TVs

125 LG UR762H hospitality displays were installed across the hotel's guest rooms, each flat-to-wall mounted to maintain the property's clean, modern aesthetic. These 4K screens deliver ultra high-definition content whilst occupying minimal visual space—a crucial consideration in contemporary room design where every detail matters.

EasyStream IPTV Headend

Behind the scenes, an EasyStream IPTV headend provides the backbone of the system, distributing live TV channels and on-demand content reliably to every room. This centralised architecture eliminates the need for individual set-top boxes, reducing in-room clutter and simplifying system management for hotel staff.

Uniguest Hub Guest Room Entertainment Platform

The Uniguest Hub platform serves as the guest-facing interface, transforming each television into a (customisable) interactive portal. branded welcome screen and intuitive navigation to access:

• Information pages– Guests can effortlessly cast content from their person
• Chromecast Built-in – Guests can effortlessly cast content from their personal devices, whether it's a presentation for tomorrow's meeting, a Netflix series mid-binge, or photos from the day's adventures. No cables. No complexity.
• Electronic Program Guide (EPG) – A comprehensive, multi-day TV guide allows guests to browse live programming with ease, bringing the familiarity of home viewing to their hotel stay.
• Airtime VOD Service – A curated library of early-release, blockbuster movie content, and programming.

The Technology

The result is an entertainment system that feels effortless. Guests gain instant access to both traditional broadcast content and modern streaming functionality, all through a single, elegant interface. For The Met Hotel, it represents a future-proof investment that enhances the guest experience whilst streamlining operations—technology that works invisibly, exactly as it should.