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Hotels with tiny rooms, pioneered in Japan, are spreading and evolving

WITH their tiny, cupboard-like rooms and prices as low as ¥2,000 ($18) a night, capsule hotels have existed in Japan since the 1980s, but have not caught on elsewhere. They have, however, helped to inspire a new breed of inexpensive, no-frills hotels outside Japan that are not quite as small and not quite as cheap. In 2005 easyGroup, the parent company of easyJet, a low-cost airline, opened easyHotels in Hungary, Switzerland and Britain, with rooms from $22 a night. (As you would expect, extra amenities, such as windows or television, cost extra.) The latest examples of the genre, which opened this year, have added a further twist: they combine small rooms at low prices with cutting-edge design and technology.


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Yotel, a British company, opened its first hotel inside London's Gatwick airport in July. Its tiny rooms, or “cabins” (pictured), draw inspiration from both Japanese capsule hotels and the first-class accommodation on a British Airways airliner. The “premium cabin” contains a full-sized foldaway bed, a toilet and shower, electrical points, a desk, free wireless-internet access and a flat-panel television. The “standard cabin” has a slightly smaller bed. Room rates start at £25 ($52) for four hours or £55 per night. The company will open another hotel at Heathrow airport on December 1st, and plans a third at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport in early 2008. This hotel will be behind the security cordon, which should appeal to travellers with connecting flights.