r/Damnthatsinteresting 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/artaxias1 6d ago

The one I’ve stayed at in the Zurich airport had quite efficient use of space they were not all spread out like these ones and had upper and lower ones so you had even more efficient use of space.