The evolution of the bench: capsule hotels at the airport. An hourly hotel was opened in Sheremetyevo

Metropolitan architects from the Arch Group bureau installed a demonstration sample of a capsule lounge in one of the terminals of Sheremetyevo Airport. It is not yet possible to use it, but functioning boxes should appear before the end of the year.

The capsule room is called the Sleep Box and is designed for passengers who want to sleep in comfort while waiting for their flight. You can rent a capsule both for half an hour and for several hours. The hourly rental will cost about $10. For this money, the passenger is provided with a bed with a change of linen, a TV and Wi-Fi. The room has ventilation and space for luggage. The capsule can be chosen for one person, for two or three.

Now the Arch Group bureau is negotiating with foreign companies: many European countries are going to buy modular rooms for airports, train stations, business centers and medical institutions. According to the creators, although modular hotels are also made in Japan and the UK, the Arch Group invention has no analogues in the world and is even patented.

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The first capsule hotel was opened in the Japanese city of Osaka in 1979, it is still functioning and consists of small rooms with a bed, TV and bookshelves. There are similar hotels all over the world, the last one was recently opened in Shanghai. Capsule hotels today are called all hotels, the rooms in which do not exceed 10 square meters. There is such a hotel in Moscow Sheremetyevo, it is called "Air Express". True, only modest sizes make it a capsule, because they offer to sleep not in boxes, but in full-fledged rooms with all amenities.

Capsule hotel in Japan
Capsule hotel in Japan
Yotel in New York
Capsule hotel "Vozdushny Express" in Sheremetyevo

The capsule hotel is a Japanese invention for workaholics who miss the last train. In its original form, it was a windowless sleeping box, containing only a bed. However, today capsule hotels are not only understood as such cocoons - they also mean good rooms with king-size beds and bathrooms. The essence of the capsules is that a person can stay in it for several hours during a transfer, without leaving the airport and without leaving the transit zone. In this article, we will tell you about which airports in the world have convenient and interesting sleep capsules.

gosleep

The state-of-the-art GoSleep lounge pods are located right in the lounges of many major airports. This is a real cocoon that can be transformed into a chair. It has a place for luggage, sockets, USB outputs, internet and accessories for sleeping. At some airports, GoSleep vacations are free, but basically the price depends on the number of hours spent in the cocoon: the longer you stay in it, the cheaper it is.

Nap Cabs

Nap Cabs look like automatic kiosks for urgent photos, but in fact, the 4-meter space of the capsule is almost a hotel room: a bed with linens, a work area, a multimedia screen, all kinds of chargers, air conditioning and much more (no bath and toilet) ). Cleanliness is provided automatically: as soon as a person leaves the room, it is blocked and becomes available only after cleaning and changing linen. To pay for the rest (through the terminal) you need a bank card.

Sleep Pod

An excellent invention of the Vietnamese - two-story cabins for sleeping in the transit area of ​​the airport. The room has a bed, bedside table, clothes hanger, Wi-Fi, snacks and drinks are brought to you during your stay. Small children sleep with their parents without pay. The cost of an hour starts from 130 thousand Vietnamese dong or 340 rubles.

Snooze At My Space

Cleanliness and safety are not obvious epithets for transferring at the airport of the Indian capital, but at Sams Snooze at My Space capsule hotels you can get both. Here you are guaranteed to find a comfortable bed with clean linen, TV, mini-fridge, internet and be sure that you will be woken up on time. You can reserve a capsule online, and the room will be ready for your arrival.

Snoozecube

The airport in Dubai is one of the five busiest airports in the world and 23 capsules is definitely not enough for everyone, even despite the considerable cost of rest. In the "cube" a good bed, a designer interior, a multimedia screen, Wi-Fi, and a shared toilet and a bar are located nearby in the lobby.

Yotel

The Yotel chain offers a luxury level of capsule hotels. Sufficiently large (7-10 sq.m) rooms are equipped with bathrooms with bath accessories and a shower that simulates a tropical downpour. Comfortable mattresses and high-quality linen, a workplace, Wi-Fi and TV, as well as food delivery and free drinks will completely brighten up a long wait at the airport. The minimum stay in the hotel is 4 hours.

Minute Suites

The network of capsule hotels covers airports that receive a huge number of passengers on both domestic and international flights. Each soundproof room has a sofa, work desk, TV, internet, departure board. At Dallas Airport, you can take a shower at Minute Suites. You can book a room online.

When I first talked about the Russian sleep capsules Sleepbox, which began to be installed at the Moscow Sheremetyevo airport (Sleeping capsules for hostels), many entrepreneurs, at first interested in this unusual way to sleep, were upset when they found out what the price of such capsules from the manufacturer - Arch Group - 10 -40 thousand dollars (for its price, this is no longer furniture, but some kind of car):

But you can do it cheaper, right? If you turn off the bells and whistles and design and leave only the essence - the ability to sleep peacefully and without shame. For this purpose, a regular cabinet with a horizontal shelf is suitable.

And the other day I heard that similar cabins for sleeping appeared at the Belarusian airport:

It seems to me that more than 20 thousand Russian rubles, such a bed will not pull.

There is a mattress, there is a pillow, there is even a bedside table and a socket - well, what else do you need for a sweet sleep at the station?

And for a sweet dream, you can take the same $ 10 per hour (or a little less).

Thus, investments in the business are reduced by (10,000 dollars: 20,000 rubles) 25 times!

And so it is in any business.

You don’t have money to buy a vending machine that prints photos from Instagram - to create a business in your city (read Boft - Instagram photo printing machine), put a table in the same area (meter by meter in the trading floor), a laptop and printer - and print pictures with your pens. There will be customers - the business will take place. There will be no customers - it means that you saved 500 thousand rubles on investing in Boft (photo printing machine).

All these fancy designs (Sleepboxes and Bofts) are not a panacea for creating your own business. Like any complex technique, they can break down, disobey, do something wrong, despite their high cost (I recently wanted to pay for a passport through its fancy machine in Sberbank - I couldn’t. The letter “z” was not printed in this machine "And that's why I couldn't print my address on it. So I went to the operator that accepts payments manually. And no one, apparently, is going to repair this machine).

In my opinion, the business on these boxes is done primarily by their creators, and not by the businessmen who buy them.

In addition, in our time, when you can only wait for the decline in oil prices and the next crisis, it is quite risky to run a business designed for clients who overspend. When you want to sleep, does it matter where you sleep - in a closet or in a designer drawer?

A capsule hotel for transit passengers began to operate at the Moscow airport. The appearance in the "clean" zone of a place where you can take a little nap is a great idea. However, the new hotel raises many questions.

The hotel is located in Terminal E, behind passport control. In essence, the whole GoSleep.Moscow- this is a small enclosed space where 12 capsules are installed. Each capsule has a minimalist bed with a luggage compartment and a USB port for charging your phone or computer. Inside there is a ventilation system, so even with the blinds closed it will not be stuffy.

Sleeping in this underhotel is quite expensive: during the day (from 10 am to 10 pm) 1 hour costs 500 rubles, at night you can stay in a capsule for at least 2 hours, and it will cost 760 rubles.

The more time you pay, the less the cost per hour will be. It turns out that you are offered a very simple bed for a few hours at the price of a day in a normal average hotel room with all amenities. At the same time, it is not clear why a tired traveler cannot take a nap "for an hour" at night. More precisely, of course, it can, but only if you deposit money for two. If you need such luxury as a pillow or a blanket, you will have to pay for them separately.

According to representatives of the airport, "guests can admire the view of the airfield from the panoramic window." Why a beautiful view for people who decide to sleep and pay a decent amount for it is not clear. It would be much more logical to place the capsules in a quiet secluded far corner of the terminal, and in this place make a bar or just put comfortable chairs for relaxing, which, by the way, are often not enough.

This is not the first time Sheremetyevo surprises with capsule hotels. A few years ago, on the fifth floor of the Aeroexpress terminal, the so-called "capsule" hotel "Vozdushny Express" was opened. Apparently, the buzzword was used solely to attract attention: this hotel has the most ordinary, albeit small, rooms with showers and toilets. Since then, Sheremetyevo Airport has changed the idea of ​​capsule hotels - the new "hotel" at least has the capsules themselves.

Similar "Sleep Capsules" can be found not only in Sheremetyevo: they are in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, in Helsinki in Finland. Although much more common are spacious and comfortable "sleep cabins", which have much more space, you can stand to your full height and often have not only wi-fi, but also a TV. They are not only single, but also designed for several people. Similar cabins await travelers at the international airports of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Dubai in the UAE, Delhi in India, Munich in Germany, Atlanta and Dallas in the USA and many others.