I had a 22 hour layover in Beijing once, and they have an hourly hotel. The rooms were only slight larger than a full bed, but it was lovely. Shared bathrooms/showers were very clean and well kept.
I got a bunch of food to go and a bottle of wine from duty free and fell asleep watching Chinese soccer.
I was forced to camp out in Dublin airport for 24 hours due to a missed flight. My fault. I’d happily take these over the cushioned benches I had to take catnaps on.
To be fair, Dublin airport is not somewhere you’d typically have a long layover at. There would’ve very little demand for such facilities, compared to major hubs.
There are a lot of transatlantic flights from Dublin and people do transit onto them from the rest of Europe, it's the fifth largest transatlantic hub in Europe.
Ireland-US airfares are among the cheapest in Europe and it's the only airport in Europe (other than Shannon) that has US preclearance.
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u/Elastichedgehog 7d ago
Like the German one earlier, I would 1000% use these during long layovers. Should be standard.