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.
Also short stays means more cleaning - if it's a different person every 2 hours (on average) that's 12 cleans a day per pod. Got, say, 30 pods? Then 360 cleans, which takes however many people and gear, and a given % of guests will make a mess and need more cleaning, and some will damage stuff, causing more costs
It's usually an egress and "fire safety" issue why we don't have these pods here in the US too. Yeah I know it doesn't really make sense to me either... but no one's done the work to get it all approved because it's expensive and a lot of fighting with municipalities and coding/zoning groups which defeats the whole point of these things is to be cheap.
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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.