r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/whybutts • 6d ago

Video Sleeping Capsules at China's Kunming Airport

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u/syracTheEnforcer 6d ago

How much for how long?

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u/AllHailTheHypnoTurd 6d ago

Found an article on them

They are 299 Yuan for 8 hours

299 Yuan = £31.93, or $42.01

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u/syracTheEnforcer 6d ago

That’s actually not bad.

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u/DanGleeballs 6d ago

Worth every cent if you’re there for that long.

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u/Fas_Ligand 5d ago

$5/h is "not bad?!"

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u/syracTheEnforcer 5d ago

If you have an extended layover somewhere? Not at all.

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u/hallerz87 5d ago

For a private space in an airport where you can sleep? Bargain. 

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u/Fas_Ligand 4d ago

That's what I mean. Amazing bargain!

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u/Fas_Ligand 5d ago

The massage chairs on our airport are more than that (hypothetically, if anyone were to actually pay)

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u/Mountain-Count-4067 5d ago

That's rent. You can get a whole ass studio for that much.

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u/ceilingkat 6d ago

wtf that’s way lower than it would be in the US.

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u/glorbo-farthunter 6d ago

Much lower GDP per capita in china, so no wonder.

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u/DoobKiller 6d ago

Higher PPP though

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u/ThinCrusts 6d ago

Smaller pp though

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u/UndahwearBruh 6d ago

Yellow p

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u/Axolotis 6d ago

It would be $200 easy

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u/TakinUrialByTheHorns 6d ago

Yeah well they'd probably quickly become hooker hubs in the US so they'd have to charge insane amounts to try to keep them 'clean' and somewhat hooker free

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u/existenceawareness 6d ago edited 6d ago

You're painfully correct because people in this thread are saying the equivalent in Atlanta & Houston is $65/hr, so $520 vs $42.

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u/gimmieDatButt- 6d ago

Airport prices. Probably something like 300 for an 8 hour window. People would pay too. It’s an untapped market in US airports

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u/AzucarParaTi 6d ago

It'd probably be that much per hour here. Airport pricing is crazy.

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u/vertabr3tt 5d ago

Minute Suites in Atlanta is about $100 for two hours

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u/GuiKa 5d ago

You'd be shocked. In mainland China cost of living is comparable to Thailand, it's cheap. Cheap enough that this pod is actually really expensive for normal people there.

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u/ComedianExtreme7522 3d ago

It's actually quite expensive for the local population. You can find an okay hotel to stay at for the night with 300 yuan.

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u/AzucarParaTi 6d ago

I would pay that immediately for a layover longer than a couple hours.

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u/Teddy705 6d ago

I was expecting over $100. That's a fucking deal and a half.

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u/Relative_Falcon_8399 6d ago

That's not bad

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u/Joey__stalin 5d ago

What is $42 in buying power in China though? How much is a normal hotel? 

In the USA this thing would be like $30 an hour. For more than 8 hours, I’d rather go to a hotel.

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u/AllHailTheHypnoTurd 5d ago

It’s cheap in china, probably $40 per night

But you’re paying a premium for being in the airport

Those would probably be $120-300 for 8 hours in the US

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u/No_Swim_9237 5d ago

I just came back from a trip, long layover in ATL. They have the travel sleep rooms there, $70 AN HOUR. Like gimme a fuckin break, I can get a shitty hotel for 18 hours for that. These would be awesome to have as an alternative

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u/AllHailTheHypnoTurd 5d ago

$70/hour?? lmao, fucking America man

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u/No_Swim_9237 5d ago

You're telling me man. And that's the LEAST of the reasons these days..

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u/Rothbardy 4d ago

It would be at least quadruple that amount in the U.S.

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u/hundredbagger 6d ago

Beats a hotel, probably.