The days are gone when we used to say bigger is better. Hoteliers around the world are perfecting the concept of the space-saving and money-saving Japanese capsule hotel.Pod hotels - essentially very small hotel rooms - take their inspiration from Japanese capsule hotels, with a few ideas borrowed from the best first-class air cabins.The innovative Pod Hotel offers compact, cleverly designed rooms and a prime location.

Pod hotels were originally influenced by Japanese well-known 'capsule' hotels. Designed and created especially for businessmen who badly needed a place to bunk out overnight, the unorthodox capsule hotels have a public lounge area with baths, and a different big room full of plastic separate sleeping-cabins -- the capsules. Each cabin or unit sizes little over three feet in hight and width and almost 6 feet long, and each unit has its separate mini-T.V, a small radio, a tiny alarm clock and a fncy lamp.

High style and high tech converge at the Pod Hotel, which offers hip, convenient accommodations for the stylish and spendthrifty traveler.They have single rooms with couch beds, bunk bed rooms, and larger rooms with larger beds. The Rooms are bright, multi-print linens shine up the 360 sleek cabins. The small working spaces, shining-metal sinks, and tiny bathrooms (in majority rooms) are examples of efficiency. They are compact, packed full of good design and cheap.

Pod hotels are targeted at hip-travellers (who have slimhips!) and slimmer pockets who yet desire all the suitability/nearness of location and a little bit of cozy design trickery without earmarking for it.

Though the idea of pod hotels was conceived in Japan, the name 'pod'can be tracked back to Piccadilly Backpackers Hostel in England. Before 2009, its pod rooms plus bunk beds with more privacy and space started selling for as low as £12 for a night.Not to wonder that Stelios has already inaugurated 2 pod-style easyHotels and a 3rd is expected in Budapest in the new year. He is planning another 2 for London and 1 in Dubai. Birmingham already has Nitenite, whose compounds are made to mimic the feeling of a cabin on a luxury yacht. Just few minutes from New Street station, they begin at £29.95. Amsterdam and Antwerp will also have their own pod hotels soon next year in the form of Qbic, which successfully tries to pack a 4-poster bed, power-shower and easy-chair into only seven Square-Metres. As for easyHotel, there is no lobby and the guests are expected to check themselves in by themselves. Rather, there is a community area with a working space, gaming-consoles and restaurants with self-service. The Amsterdam hotels began taking bookings few weeks back and they are working just like flights with no-frils. Bookings can be made the cheapest deals something like from £25 for a night.


PODs are particularly very popular with travelers/passengers who find a cheap and convenient place to have a safe sleep, or do some work, watch a movie or just sit and relax while they are waiting for their next flight at the airport.

More than hundred million passengers worldwide are using low-priced flights each year in Europe, but unfortunately airport hotels have not yet found a way to meet their wants and needs. Airport hotels normally charge 3 or 4 times more than a regular flight and the only option for great many people is to miserably sleep on the floor inside the passenger lounge of an airport.

While POD hotels in this scenario are offering enjoyable, cozy and adaptable rooms for just £20 to £30 for a night and is ideal in case of delays, early-morning flights & late night flight arrivals. So the pods are hot now a days.

As we, as humans, all love everything that is pod. Take from the Dopod to iPod, the awkward but dismally rare Sauropod, the term 'pod' has been and will surely remain a crush. We are entering a global race. One can see the signs everywhere in the world. Wherever you look around, people are seen plugged-into some chichi PODs or the other, staring aimlessley into the distance,nodding, mouth wide-open etc.etc.

People would not stay in a big fancy hotel just for a night or two just for the experience of it which would cost them the money that can afford their entire trip in a modern, stylish and luxury pod hotel.