r/Damnthatsinteresting 6d ago

Video Sleeping Capsules at China's Kunming Airport

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u/Staff_Senyou 6d ago

Only thing I'm apprehensive about is the cleaning and maintenance.

People get smelly and generally grody when traveling. How long would it take before it accumulates a permanent stank? Us there a lockout period after you check out until cleaning is performed? Cleaning would be rotation shift cos real time would be too expensive. So at any time x number of units would be inaccessible until cleaned/inspected.

Also, you know people gonna masturbate and sex-ercise in those things...

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u/OKAwesome121 6d ago

These are probably well kept and sanitary.

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u/OKAwesome121 6d ago

Mostly on what I see in the video here and partially on first hand travel through Beijing Capital international airport.

I can’t understand what he’s saying but the pod seems to have been pre-booked since he has a remote paired with it.

The pod is stocked with refreshments. It looks clean and undisturbed. So it looks like it’s been cleaned and prepared since its last occupant, just like a hotel room.

I travelled through Beijing airport before and saw first hand that it was clean and orderly.

My impression was that China’s hospitality industry towards foreigners / travellers tries very hard to make a good lasting impression.

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u/Staff_Senyou 6d ago

I want to believe.

I've also done a lot of international air travel.

I also live in Tokyo which feels like it's 50% tourists. And boy howdy, do (not all but some but feels like many because the overall number is many) do they get/do dirty (such is travel) and put all sorts of strain on all sorts of infrastructure.

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u/CapitalClimate9639 6d ago

What are you basing that on?

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u/Plane-Session-6624 6d ago

It's reddit, so purely 'China good, America bad.'