‘Breather’ App Lets You Rent Private Office Space For $25 an Hour. Work, nap, hold small meetings or just kill time.
By Molly Mulshine 3/14 4:23pm Share this: Sure beats Starbucks. (Photo: Breather) A new app called Breather is setting out to make life even sweeter for traveling self-employed types. Breather allows users to rent private rooms for an hour at a time, 16 hours a day, in New York City and Montreal. (Photo: Breather) In Manhattan, five rooms are available. Before you ask, what the rooms can’t be used for is naked time, Mr. It’s true that people assume every new tech startup will be used for sex when it first launches. “Absolutely everyone that works at Breather knows everything that goes on in our network (which as it turns out is not much),” he said via email, “and they’re all perfectly comfortable using them.
All right, honor system it is. Breather is available on iPhone and Android. Follow Molly Mulshine on Twitter or via RSS. mmulshine@observer.com Tags: App for That, breather, breather app, temporary office space in nyc. Breather - Peace & quiet, on-demand. 'GoSleep’ Sleeping Pods And Other Micro-Hotels For Weary Travelers. The next time you transfer through Abu Dhabi International Airport, don’t be surprised to find a bizarre collection of futuristic “sleeping pods” lined up like eggs in a crate. Ten of the $12.25-per-hour pods now reside in Terminal 3, along with 10 more in the Al Dhabi Lounge at Terminal 1. Inside each capsule, travelers with a penchant for napping right in the middle of the terminal can find a fully enclosed chair that converts into a private flat bed, along with sliding shades that seal out airport noise, light and crowds.
Three-dozen more “GoSleep” pods will be installed across the airport later this year, and all will be outfitted with Internet access; storage space for luggage and valuables; and a power source for laptops, mobile phones and other electronic devices. Abu Dhabi Airports Company, or ADAC, called the Finnish-designed sleeping pods an exclusive “world first.” 'GoSleep’ Sleeping Pods And Other Micro-Hotels For Weary Travelers. When You Just Have to Go, There's Airpnp. Better Than Airbnb — and B&Bs. When a guest of The One Hotel Angkor wants to find a unique souvenir to bring home from Cambodia, the owner happily escorts him or her to the best shop in town.
Martin Dishman extends that personal touch upon arrival, too: You are met at Siem Reap International and transported to your very own room at the mod French-colonial hotel — the only room at The One Hotel, as its name suggests. Which means everything is about you. Microhotels Pod and Yotel expand. The Pod and Yotel, two "micro" hotel brands whose tiny rooms and high-concept designs have gained popularity in New York in recent years, are each making expansion plans to better capitalize on both resurgent leisure-travel demand and their success in the country's most expensive hotel market.
BD Hotels opened its first Pod-branded property on Manhattan's East 51st Street in 2007 and debuted a second Pod on East 39th Street last year. By the end of the year, it plans to break ground on properties in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood and in Manhattan near Times Square. The Brooklyn hotel is scheduled to open by late 2015 while the latter site, which at more than 600 rooms will be by far the largest Pod, will open the following year. For BD Hotels, it marks the first branded focus after 28 years of opening independently badged properties such as the Maritime, Chambers and Blakeley hotels. The Best Airport Micro-Hotels - Airports are a terrible place to sleep and the there have been many times when I have had a long international layover, a flight cancellation, or a number of other unforeseen events where I simply need a power nap or extended rest.
In most cases this means spreading out on some airport chairs or getting down on the floor to catch a nap. But thanks to the new trend of short-stay micro-hotels that is hopefully changing. Luckily many airports are installing short-stay cabins which you can pay by the hour or per night. This are loosely modeled after Japanese capsule hotels and have only the essentials in their limited space inside. This is great if you don’t want to leave the airport for a hotel when your layover is only 6 hours or so. Yotel The Yotel has been around for a while, since 2007, at London’s Heathrow and expanded to Amsterdam’s Schiphol in 2008. A typical Yotel at Heathrow. Below is the typical NYC Yotel. New York hotel times square & airport hotels - Yotel. Rent a Tiny Sleepbox At Moscow Airport. For Sleeping. Images credit Arch Group/Ivanov Ilya.
When I first wrote about the Sleepbox two years ago, I was dubious that it would ever see the light of day, noting "It is an interesting exercise in seeing how small a space one can comfortably live in, but one suspects that the opportunity for, um, misuse might keep this idea of the 15 minute hotel room from going mainstream. " But it has, with a working prototype set up in Moscow. Designed by the Arch Group, about the only change from the original proposal is that it is made of wood instead of plastic (common for prototypes, and the minimum time has increased from 15 minutes to half an hour. They appear to have given up on one my favourite features of the original concept, the automatic bed-changing system: [bed] is equipped with automatic system of change of bed linen. Instead they have gone for conventional linen. The architects write: Imagine the situation where you are in a modern city, you are not a local resident, and you have not booked a hotel. World's worst airports to sleep in.
Some might say Helsinki itself is pretty soporific, so this snooze-friendly airport should really knock you out, according to SleepinginAirports.net voters.
"There are a few 'beds' made of four seats together (no armrests)," writes one airport sleeper ecstatically. A new entry to the site's top five, Schiphol scores for its "comfortable couches" and a forest-like area with nature sounds between Departures 3 and 4. Travelers love the traditional dance performances here -- although whether that's because they're a good Valium substitute isn't clarified. The dormouse's favorite, Singapore Changi, wins top spot for the 17th year in a row.
Rest and relaxation are apparently "mandatory. " "In T-shirt and sandals I spent the night outside, walking and jumping around to keep warm," reports a passenger. "Upright plastic lumbar-devastating 'chairs' add to your foul mood after negotiating the carnage to actually end up in the departure lounge. " "We slept sitting up. 3rd best -- Amsterdam Schiphol 5. 4. The Guide to Sleeping in Airports. New York hotel times square & airport hotels - Yotel. The Best Airport Micro-Hotels - Microhotels Pod and Yotel expand. Micro-Hotels Offer NYC Visitors Cheap, Chic Digs. 'GoSleep’ Sleeping Pods And Other Micro-Hotels For Weary Travelers.