Capsule Hotel in Russia

Capsule hotels come to Russia. Fashion trend, which several years ago captured the global hotel market, today found its continuation in Moscow. The first capsule hotel in Russia was designed by architectural firm Arch Group. Concept was called Sleepbox. The hotel is designed for short-term staying. Its rooms are very compact, thus offers its guests the latest innovations, such as WiFi and a plasma TV.

For the first time capsule hotel was coined and built in Japan in Osaka, it was a small room with a sleeper cell located one above the other. The dimensions of such capsules are 2 × 1 × 1.25m, which, according to the organizers enough to sleep, watch TV or read. These hotels have acquired quite a lot of popularity in the land of the rising sun. They were located in areas with entertainment facilities and in quarters with office centers and the main visitors were tired businessmen, not wishing to make long journey home from their work place, or drunk citizens, who fear to go home. In addition, the price of rooms at this hotel was much lower than in the classic hotel. However, outside Japan capsule hotels until recently did not enjoy a special demand.

However, with the advent of the 21st century capsule hotels have become more relevant than ever. The financial crisis has spurred the hotel chains to find new low cost accommodation. The fact that the capsule hotels in the world have a bright future is backed by the success of the network of micro hotels Yotel, which opened its micro hotels in airports in London and Amsterdam. Not so long ago, on the Spanish hotel market the concept of prefabricated capsule hotels was presented by Lookotels company. To a certain extent analogous capsule hotel can be considered opened in 2009 in the Sheremetyevo Airport "Air Express" Hotel, where the area of the numbers ranged from 7.5 to 22 square meters.

In the Russian capsule hotel concept Sleepbox were taken into account the experience of world analogues. Capsule rooms are equipped with comfortable beds and modern system of ventilation and air conditioning.