Capsule Hotels (Westmont: apartment, credit card, live)

[paytonc]

Originally Posted by CarolinaBredChicagoan

Why would it?

Beggars could (relatively) easily cobble together the cost of the room in cash, which can't be said for either (a) the business hotels downtown or (b) apartments, which usually require security deposits and the like. Homelessness is almost unheard of in Japan, where extended families are expected to provide for their relatives, but there are reports that some capsule hotels have become havens for the homeless during the recent recession.

The main market for capsule hotels is, indeed, people who've stayed out on the town too late. Some key aspects of Japanese downtowns that make such an idea more practical there:
1. Work hours are much earlier/later than here.
2. You are expected to frequently get hammered with your co-workers.
3. All transit service ceases at around midnight, well before bar closing times.
4. Very few people drive to work.
5. Few people live close to work.
6. Taxis are unfathomably expensive.
7. Office dress codes are stricter, so nobody can tell that today's black suit was also yesterday's.
8. The areas right around the downtown train stations tend to be mixed-use entertainment areas with lots of nighttime activity, not 9-to-5 office zones.

Toyoko Inn -- kind of equivalent to Days Inn -- has proposed building a large hotel across from Union Station (behind Metra's HQ), but that just has tiny rooms, not capsules per se.

[pvande55]

This would be a great option for visitors who will be taking in the nightlife and just need a bed to sleep. Why aren't there more of them in expensive cities of the U.S.?

[ngoo]

So, exist or no ? Or something like that. Cheap and little.

[linicx]

It would depend upon the location, of course. I suppose I think this because some of the threads I read mentioned cheap 'flophouse' type hotels in Chicago charging $25 a night. If it was run like Yotel in London, it would not happen because it can't happen. If it was managed correctly it would be a great asset to the city.

Originally Posted by CarolinaBredChicagoan

Why would it?

[linicx]

There is no capsule hotels in Chicago. There is nothing like it. You are obviously in Chicago. Where do you live now?

Originally Posted by ngoo

So, exist or no ? Or something like that. Cheap and little.

[ngoo]

on the roof, like Carlson

[Avengerfire]

One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small...
and the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all...

[ngoo]

dont think about others, like u think about youself, "antidepressants-eater"

[ngoo]

Can be something little room in basement or in some office building, some little "warm box" for about 200-300 per month $ ? But in normal place, not South.

[Avengerfire]

This is a bizzaro thread.