Super-cool phone-free social clubs, purposefully no-WiFi cafes, and other environments for IRL connection are on the rise\u2014and in demand.<\/p>\n
Making time to unplug is a higher priority than ever before, and places that help us put our phones down are popping up everywhere. Some restaurants are serving up discounts if you power down, for example, and others are mandating that\u00a0date-night dinners be phone-free only\u00a0(so, no booking other Bumble dates while you\u2019re on one), and even some\u00a0smoothie bars\u00a0kindly forbid your devices and want to inspire you to \u201cre-connect as a community, away from social networks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hotels may now actually brag about\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0having WiFi: Everywhere from Camp Grounded in Mendocino, CA, whose motto is \u201cdisconnect to reconnect\u201d to\u00a0Villa Stephanie in Baden-Baden, Germany (the famous spa town)\u2014which blocks all WiFi signals from your room by embedding copper plates in the walls to prevent your boss\u2019 emails from reaching you on vacation\u2014to the\u00a0Mandarin Hotel Las Vegas\u2019 \u2018digital wellness escape\u201d\u00a0(check your phones at the front desk, please). Want to go where no cell towers can reach you? A new glamping startup called\u00a0Hipcamp\u00a0can find you an off-the-grid place, a la Airbnb.<\/p>\n And slow-the-eff-down brand Folk Rebellion (AKA the the brilliant minds behind those\u00a0\u201cAnalog as Folk\u201d tees) is in the planning stages for a tech-free clubhouse in New York City\u2014basically a place to pause for always-on professionals. \u201cPeople feel more lonely, more stressed, and anxious than ever,\u201d says Folk Rebellion founder Jess Davis. \u201cThe technology that was meant to connect us and simplify our lives, when overused, in fact, causes the opposite reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n Expect the \u201cit\u201d spots of 2018 to be spaces where going analog is the entire point\u2026not the sign of a bad WiFi connection.<\/p>\n By wellandgood – top 18 wellness trends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Super-cool phone-free social clubs, purposefully no-WiFi cafes, and other environments for IRL connection are on the rise\u2014and in demand. Making time to unplug is a higher priority than ever before, and places that help us put our phones down are popping up everywhere. Some restaurants are serving up discounts if you power down, for example,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12376,"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions\/12376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbssurfbali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}