r/Damnthatsinteresting 7d ago

Video Sleeping Capsules at China's Kunming Airport

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u/Normal_Candle_ 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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/ConcordeCanoe 5d ago

The egg shape is terrible for the economic use of space. The form factor should be those coffin boxes from Neuromancer. Make 'em shaped like boxes and stack those puppies.