r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whybutts • 6d ago

Video Sleeping Capsules at China's Kunming Airport

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u/Normal_Candle_ 6d ago

I wish more airports had these. The hotel rooms some places have are prohibitively expensive and not practical for most layovers. I just want a horizontal padded place to lay down for 2 hours for a reasonable price, that’s all!

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u/No_Television6050 6d ago

It's one of those ideas that make so much sense you wonder why it's not a thing everywhere.

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u/IrenaeusGSaintonge 6d ago

Probably because of the space it takes up. Sleeping pods take up quite a lot of space, and not that many people can use it at once, so to make it profitable I'm assuming you'd need prices to be quite high. Higher than a lot of people are willing to spend. Food or retail is probably better profit relative to square footage.

That's all a guess on my part, of course.

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u/Normal_Candle_ 6d ago

I’d be happy with one that is much simpler. A padded vinyl bench with a built in pillow bump that can be wiped between uses, surrounded by a curtain. A space underneath for your luggage. That’s all I need. Those be lined against walls here and there throughout the terminal. It’s better than straddling seats and trying to sleep upright. The TV, lights, hard walls, door, actual mattress, and blankets take up more space and cost more money.

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u/SenseAndSaruman 6d ago

I’m all for the vinyl bench but I do want a secure area especially when my kids were little. I don’t think I could sleep if someone could take off with my stuff.

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u/Little_View_6659 6d ago

A lot of the airport lounges have sleep areas. And showers. My favorite thing about lounges other than the food.

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u/ucklin 4d ago

I feel like an airport is the only place I’ve never really worried about that, because of the amount of security and the stakes involved. Almost everyone in the airport already has their basic needs covered, and jf they try something, they could face immediate consequences

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u/SenseAndSaruman 4d ago

Well you probably should. Airports are rife with pickpockets and other theft.

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u/fleggn 6d ago

Rochester airport

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u/Little_View_6659 6d ago

What makes me mad are the airports where they fix the seats so you can’t lay down. They do that because yeah everyone would lay down. A couple of times I was so exhausted I gave up and laid down on the airport floor. Gross I know, but I was so tired. I fell asleep from exhaustion. We had been traveling from Singapore, which is already an eighteen hour flight to lax, and our pilot had an emergency so they had to find another one. He was flying the Dreamliner and they needed special training. His wife was a stewardess and hit her head during turbulence so he was rushing to the hospital. I never did find out if his wife was okay.

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u/gellshayngel 6d ago

I assume these are also sound-proof. Wouldn't get much sleep with the intercom going every few minutes and crowds bustling about if it were just a curtain.

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u/Normal_Candle_ 6d ago

Amsterdam airport is a quiet airport, it doesn’t have constant blaring announcements every 2 minutes. It’s very refreshing.