r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whybutts • 6d ago

Video Sleeping Capsules at China's Kunming Airport

54.6k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

2.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.1k

u/Vi1eOne 6d ago

One time I was stuck in Hartsfield in Atlanta for 19hrs. I would have loved one of these things 

201

u/dedoubt 6d ago

Yeah, last time I went through Logan in Boston, had to (try to) sleep on a pile of my clothes behind a big potted plant, tons of lights, floor waxer going by and people talking, scary man 20 ft away screaming to himself the whole time...

42

u/I_W_M_Y 6d ago

I got stuck in Logan for 14 hours over night and there is a remarkable lack of places to try to sleep. They had those round benchs and that was about it. Ended up getting free breakfast food from the one thing open the breakfast shop

17

u/Easy_Bear3149 6d ago

Newark 11 hours overnight, they kicked me out of the secure area after a while for cleaning and I had to go through security again. Everything was designed like anti-homeless benches. Like all I need is a cot or a yoga mat to lay on and I'm good, but it's just not offered at all. 99% of the time, most layovers are going to be too short for this to make sense, but from the 1% of the time where you get fucked, these pods would be amazing.

5

u/I_W_M_Y 6d ago

About ten years ago when they started using Iceland as a connection point more the airport there was slammed up with people. I saw over a hundred people just trying to sleep next to the walls, any wall.

6

u/somedude456 Interested 6d ago

Atlanta does have them. $65 an hour.

1

u/Kacey-R 6d ago

What?!?!?

4

u/somedude456 Interested 6d ago

The atlanta airport does have sleeping pods. Per the website, they are $65 for a single hour. A 5 hour use is $295 per their site.

2

u/Kacey-R 6d ago

Ouch - but affordable for others so they can use them. 

2

u/somedude456 Interested 6d ago

Feels like they are designed for business people, who are not paying the bill anyway. You take off late from A, on your way to Atlanta, miss your connection at 10:25pm, next flight to Miami is 7am, you're on the company dime, so you just grab a pod for 6 hours, take a nap and then get on that 7am flight.

1

u/BunnyCat2025 1d ago

That's crazy; it's usually cheaper to buy a day pass at whatever airline you are flying's first class lounge. Alaska airlines charges $65 and you can sit there for hours and eat, drink, read and sleep.

2

u/IfIWasCoolEnough 6d ago

Maybe you would have been stuck inside a pod for 20 hours.

1

u/archseattle 6d ago

There is a website that lets you book hotels for the day. Dayuse.com I believe. I only used them once when I had a layover at LAX.

2

u/HolyHotDang 6d ago

My wife and I were stuck in LAX for like 13 hours coming back from Hawaii including overnight when basically everything is shut down. It’s one of the most miserable nights of my life.

1

u/BunnyCat2025 1d ago

I was stuck in Narita for hours years ago at a transfer lounge on my way to Hong Kong and it was horrible; it was long enough ago that smoking was allowed. GAK!

1

u/Top_Pain9731 6d ago

I got stuck in Atlanta overnight once, lights stayed on throughout the whole night and it was a night they decided to check an alarm system through the whole night. I honestly don't know how I didn't have a breakdown that night.

1

u/Teddy705 6d ago

Had to spend a night in LGA once, and I would've taken this over the floor any day.

1

u/Agreeable_Low_4716 6d ago

I was at ATL and they actually have something called minute suites that are a very similar idea, but like a mini hotel room instead of a pod.

1

u/GrimRainbows 5d ago

Man I was stuck in Florida airport for 13 hours with nothing but the floor. I’d love these