Will a rich person make something similar to Japanese sleeping capsules in Hawaii? (Honolulu: lease, hotels)
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Are there any rich people here on the forum who would be willing to build a super cheap lodging facility that provides the bare minimum sleeping space a la Japanese sleeping capsule, (and maybe by the hour too, so that people who sleep little can pay less) so that people can afford to sleep without paying for spaces that they don't intend to use?
There's not much super cheap construction possible in Hawaii. Building codes? Zoning? Cost of land to buy or lease? Parking? Restrooms? By the hour.............not sure you want the crowd that will attract.
Who wants to sleep in a capsule in the tropics? There are already cheap lodging options (hostels).
Hotels are air conditioned like meat lockers anyway. Did you see the Hawaii Five-0 episode with the comic convention where Kono and Chin Ho go into the hotel room and they remark how visitors come to Hawaii for warm weather then set their room AC to freezing?
Hotels are air conditioned like meat lockers anyway. Did you see the Hawaii Five-0 episode with the comic convention where Kono and Chin Ho go into the hotel room and they remark how visitors come to Hawaii for warm weather then set their room AC to freezing?
The hostels (as opposed to hotels) I'm familiar with don't do that. Matter of fact, neither heat nor a/c is much used at all in the hostels I know of.
Are there any rich people here on the forum who would be willing to build a super cheap lodging facility that provides the bare minimum sleeping space a la Japanese sleeping capsule, (and maybe by the hour too, so that people who sleep little can pay less) so that people can afford to sleep without paying for spaces that they don't intend to use?
Rich and famous good looking people do not hang out reading forums. sorry to burst your balloons.
For a start Hawaiians do not take afternoon cat naps like they do in Japan so that sleeping capsules is not going to work here.
However if you can program iphone apps that everyone wants you will be an instant billion air overnight. That's where the money is less hassles and you can hangout at your mom's basement all day and night writing apps.
The hostels (as opposed to hotels) I'm familiar with don't do that. Matter of fact, neither heat nor a/c is much used at all in the hostels I know of.
Yeah I walked into my hotel room in Honolulu and thought I was going to freeze to death. If you're from the mainland and are used to running the AC all the time because power is cheap, or cold weather, it probably feels fine.
I saw a news segment on Japanese sleeping capsules about 15 years ago. What it said was that many Japanese workers are expected to go out with their boss and coworkers after work to eat, drink, and socialize. Since these mandatory social events can go very late, and many workers have a long commute to the surrounding suburbs, capsule hotels provide a cheap, clean, and convenient place to crash for the night. In other words, their primary clientele consisted of businesspeople stuck in the city for the night, not vacationers trying to save some money.
A few years ago, I read about somebody trying the capsule-hotel model in the US (Texas, I think). It bombed, because Americans aren't used to living or staying in tiny spaces, as the Japanese are. Also, there are very few US cities with the population density and staggeringly high land prices of Tokyo, so the cost of a capsule in a US city vs. the cost of a small conventional hotel room probably wouldn't be great enough to entice enough people to opt for a capsule to make an entire capsule hotel financially viable. The place to try opening one probably would be either NYC or San Francisco, because they have limited land, plenty of business travelers, and a diverse population of travelers.
Hawaii, though, tends to be a destination for vacationers and conventioneers. Except for adventurous, budget-conscious, single vacationers, there wouldn't be much demand for capsules. (A pair of separate capsules wouldn't exactly be conducive to a honeymoon, for instance.) A business convention in Hawaii is usually considered a perk, and businesspeople who go there expect to be pampered at least a little.
Need a cheap place to stay, post an ad on craigslist or check out ones already posted about renting a room or ohana.
Some locals might let you pitch a tent in their back yards!!! You might meet some real cool people that way!!
I saw a news segment on Japanese sleeping capsules about 15 years ago. What it said was that many Japanese workers are expected to go out with their boss and coworkers after work to eat, drink, and socialize. Since these mandatory social events can go very late, and many workers have a long commute to the surrounding suburbs, capsule hotels provide a cheap, clean, and convenient place to crash for the night. In other words, their primary clientele consisted of businesspeople stuck in the city for the night, not vacationers trying to save some money.
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The second part is that the transportation in Tokyo stops dead at 11:00.
(which surprised the heck out of me. I thought I could catch the last train at 10:50. Nope. They stop at whatever station they are in at 11:00)
Since there is no room for cars and most taxis stop late at night. There you are, stuck. So it's either a hotel or a capsule until the trains start again.
Drinking with the boss is a mandatory business practice.
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