A Pod Hotel For San Francisco Airport?
Ladies and gentlemen, get a couple Andrew Jacksons ready and prepare to rest your wary traveler's head upon something slightly more plush than a crappy gateside airport chair: there are hot little rumors coming out of California today that insist the airport pod hotel concept in the US — a la Yotel — may be on its way to San Francisco Airport.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
The airport is seeking a concessionaire to build and operate what it calls "sleep units" in the International Terminal. SFO officials don't want a traditional hotel, but rather a collection of tiny rooms - like Japanese-style pod or capsule hotels - that fliers could rent for a couple of hours between flights.
While some U.S. airports have full-service hotels on site, even connected to terminals, SFO would be the first to offer roomlets for rent.
The article mentions Yotel a couple of times, so we assume the airport is in talks with an operator that either is Yotel or is a brand that delivers a similar product. Oh, and the location for the proposed hotel? Behind the security gates in boarding area A of the International Terminal (in a space that measures 886 square feet).
But the big question: will Americans be down for this sort of thing? We would most certainly be into it — but as we were having visions of a hot, hot nap in a capsule room between connecting flights, we stopped to consider our mother taking a nap in a pod room and something didn't quite add up.
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