- Rooms can be booked for a night for around £32, or for a matter of hours
- Already a hit in Japan, capsule hotels are popular with commuters who miss the last train home
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Sarah Johnson
16:12 EST, 28 January 2013
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06:15 EST, 29 January 2013
It’s not exactly a room with a view – but this hotel in Russia could be many travellers’ answer to a good night’s sleep.
Located in the centre of Moscow, the Sleepbox Hotel is the first capsule hotel to open in the city.
It features fifty
cramped, windowless pods, some of which which can sleep up to three
people, and which can be booked for the night, or for a matter of hours.
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No room with a view: The Sleepbox Hotel is the first of its kind to open in Moscow in Russia
Pokey: Already a hit in Japan, the capsule hotel features a number of rooms intended to provide cheap and basic overnight accommodation
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night’s accommodation is reported to cost around £32 ($50).
Each modular capsule is kitted out with a bed, shelf, lamp, small wardrobe and table, while shared bathrooms are fitted with a shower.
Already a hit in Japan, the capsule
hotel features a number of identikit rooms measuring around 10 square
metres intended to provide cheap and basic overnight accommodation for
guests not requiring the services offered by more conventional hotels.
Space-saving hotels in Japan are often located near railway stations and cater for business people or commuters who have missed the last train home.
Futuristic: The Sleepbox Hotel features 50 cramped, windowless pods, some of which can sleep up to three people
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Furniture: Each modular capsule is kitted out with a bed, shelf, lamp, small wardrobe and table
The absence of windows ensures the hotels can be erected in such unlikely sites as underground stations.
One capsule hotel in central Tokyo boasts more than 600 pods.
Many are used primarily by men and some have separate male and female sleeping quarters.
In the UK, YO! Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe came up with the idea for the YO! hotel chain after seeing the capsule concept in Japan.
The first Yotel opened at Gatwick South Terminal in 2007, offering travellers a pay-as-you-go base.
Staffing is kept to a minimum: guests check themselves in, while the purple-coloured pod rooms cover essential needs.
Modern: Rooms at the Sleepbox Hotel can be booked for the night, or for a matter of hours. A night’s accommodation is reported to cost around £32
Convenient: An information board with a Mosocw map, Moscow Metro Map, and an Aeroexpress trains schedule
Popular: Capsule hotels are already a hit in Japan and are often located near railway stations and cater for business people or commuters who have missed the last train home
Mr Woodroffe boasted of the high quality of the rooms describing them as ‘luxury liner meets The Fifth Element’.
He added that they included flat screen TVs, rotating beds and broadband internet access.
Yotel managing director Gerard Greene said: ‘The rooms are very comfortable, highly fitted, with things like the
leather you would get in an Aston Martin
‘It is the look of a four or five-star hotel.’
Further Yotels have since opened at Heathrow Terminal 4 and Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, and near Times Square in New York.
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Pay money to sleep in a windowless cage with strangers? No thanks.
Kate
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New York City,
29/1/2013 12:07
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Build them for MPs to stay in and then stop them claiming for a second home!
Boppy
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The North, United Kingdom,
29/1/2013 11:54
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Nice idea but whose going to wash your bed sheets when your done and some people may just use them as toilets!!… as toilets are notoriously hard to find in a city!… Much like a needle in a hay stack!!!
Lennylondon
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DEEP SOUTH, United Kingdom,
29/1/2013 11:54
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“Battery Humans” … a chicken’s revenge !!
Manor
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Milton Keynes,
29/1/2013 11:52
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Have you heard about Yotel in London Heathrow?
Miss R.
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London, United Kingdom,
29/1/2013 11:51
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I wonder if they are already a hit in Japan?
danielle__
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Liverpool, United Kingdom,
29/1/2013 11:47
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I think it’s a great idea in airports where people are stuck waiting for their next flights. I know if I were on a long haul flight and had a long stop over, I’d be making a bee line for one of these. So long as it locks securely and there’s no risk of some yobbo trying to do something stupid to it whilst you’re in there, then all good.
Rosie from Oz
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The Sunshine State, Australia,
29/1/2013 11:43
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Formual one room is only 30 quid
DontBelieve
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manchester, United Kingdom,
29/1/2013 11:41
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Let’s hope they don’t eat a curry before locking themselves in. #fragrant
Liz
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Coventry, United Kingdom,
29/1/2013 11:36
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Innovative!
Gr8t007
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Essex, United Kingdom,
29/1/2013 11:34
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