Nap Time! More Airports Are Testing Out Sleeping Pods
As if sleeping on an airplane wasn’t already hard enough for some people, trying to catch a few winks at the airport can often seem like an impossible task — unless you know where to look. Knowing how important shut-eye is to travelers, and that an uncomfortable metal chair isn’t conducive to honest-to-goodness sleep for most human beings, more airports are starting to embrace the sleeping pod concept.
Like something out of The Jetsons, you may have seen these space-age-looking devices while trying to find an unoccupied piece of carpet at a handful of airports around the world. In Terminal 3 at Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH), you’ll find 37 GoSleep pods, which are described by GeoBeats News in the video below as “chairs that flatten out into beds with a garage door-like closure that seals you in and protects you from noise and passersby." A two-hour rental at AUH costs $22 in case you're interested in an extended power nap during a long layover.