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Forty winks in a box
Published: 24 September, 2011, 10:55
Edited: 26 September, 2011, 17:01
TAGS: Children, Russia, Travel, Psychology, Vehicles, Natalia Novikova, Marina Dzhashi
A new Russian gimmick called the Sleepbox might be the solution if you want a quick nap on the go.
Sleepbox mini-hotels are to help exhausted adventurers at airports and railway stations – crowded and noisy places that are not so good for a nap.
Two young Russian architects decided to change that with a Sleepbox – a soundproof and air conditioned mobile hotel room for a quick rest. And the demand for them is already booming.
“We have requests from all over the world, even from the Fiji Islands. The nearest country installing it is Spain. I hope next year it will be sleeping in the Sleepbox,” shares architect Mikhail Krymov.
Similar concept capsule hotels were invented in Japan some 30 years ago, but never became popular elsewhere.
And this neatly-designed comfort crib will cost you about $10 per hour of deserved rest.
Hotel business experts say Sleepboxes could be a gold mine.
“For transit passengers or foreign students even it’s a great idea. Taking into consideration always unpredictable transport collapses etc. They are much higher standard capsule hotels,” considers Aleksandr Lesnik, Hotel Consulting & Development Group
The only Sleepbox installed so far already drawing attention of those traveling through Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international Airport.
24.09.2011, 10:23
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A wonderful idea for the tired traveler after a long flight and still in transit, but it is not new. They had this system in Honolulu airport back in 2001 and cost $20 dollars for 8 hours, it included a toilet and shower in the facility. It was invaluable for me whilst waiting for a continuing flight to Kuai. However the following year no luck. After a flight from Amsterdam - Atlanta - Los Angeles -Honolulu - Kuai and arriving in Honolulu at midnight, the last flight to Kuai having departed til the following morning. I was told that it was closed, due to 9/11, just as the airport was completely shut down til 6 in the morning. Apparently all the hotels in Honolulu were booked up, therefore I had to sit outside the airport, luggage and all, with all the other stranded passengers and a religious fanatic trying to save everyone. I am glad to see that the idea is still going and spreading as it was unknown in Europe at the time, but then again when things like 9/11 occur it seems that it can close such needed facilities down. Pity.
pure brilliance!