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24h reception
Reception staffed around the clock. · 1 airports
24h shuttle
A round-the-clock airport shuttle, day or night. · 1 airports
5 min from airport
Five minutes or less from the airport.
Airport shuttle
Airport hotels that run a shuttle between the property and the terminal. · 63 airports
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Affordable beds close to the gate. · 59 airports
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Set up for business travellers and meetings. · 61 airports
Capsule Pod Hotel
A capsule or pod hotel at an airport is a bed in a small cabin, often bookable by the hour, inside the terminal or a short walk away. What decides whether it helps you is which side of passport control it sits on. An airside pod, such as CapsuleTransit's airside hotel at Kuala Lumpur klia2 or Kepler Club at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen, lets a connecting passenger sleep without entering the country. A landside one, such as YOTELAIR in Jewel at Singapore Changi, means clearing immigration first. This theme has no hotel list of its own yet; every pod below appears on our airport pages. Kuala Lumpur has more pods than any other airport in this guide, and CapsuleTransit alone has four properties on our KLIA page, two of them at klia2 under almost the same name. Booking the wrong one is the classic mistake. The airside hotel is in the International Departure Hall of the satellite building, just before Gate Q; arriving international passengers reach it through the Transit Hall. It rates 9.2 over 838 reviews. The landside hotel is on Level 1 of the gateway@klia2 mall, after immigration, and rates 8.6 over 3,266 reviews. For a connection out of the satellite gates, I would take the airside one. Kepler Club at Sabiha Gökçen is the best-reviewed pod on this page, at 9.6 over 6,348 reviews. It is airside on the mezzanine of the international terminal: after passport control, turn left, follow the Sleeping Cabins & Showers signs and take the escalator up. Kepler Hotel & Lounge, straight ahead after passport control, is a different place, so read your booking twice. The position suits a transfer between two international flights. It is useless if your connection is domestic, or if you land late and leave next morning from Istanbul Airport, the city's other airport, on the European side. FIRST CABIN Haneda Terminal 1 works the other way round. It is on the 1st-floor arrivals level of Terminal 1, between the North and South Wings, outside security, so you keep all your luggage. Terminal 1 is domestic; international flights use Terminal 3 and, for ANA, also Terminal 2, all linked by the free inter-terminal bus. First class cabins measure 4.4 m² with a 120 cm bed, business class 2.5 m² with a 100 cm bed. Cabins close with a curtain, not a lock, men's and women's areas are separate, bathrooms are shared, and children under 12 are not accepted. It rates 7.4 over 1,747 reviews. In Hyderabad, the JPOD sleeping pods at Rajiv Gandhi International are on the arrivals level, Level C, near the car park, according to the airport operator GMR. There are 51 pods in several types, including ladies-only pods and a double-bed pod for travellers with disabilities, and each has a sliding door that locks, unlike the curtains at Haneda. The property rates 9.2 over 504 reviews. Being on the arrivals side, it suits a late landing before an early domestic departure, or a wait for a morning pickup. It does not help a passenger with no right to enter India. YOTELAIR at Changi is for travellers who are allowed into Singapore and want a small private room rather than a capsule. It is landside on Level 4 of Jewel; the hotel's own directions say to take Lift Lobby H, or E, then follow the signs. Day stays have a four-hour minimum and run between 6 am and 10 pm, overnight check-in starts at 3 pm, and reception is open 24 hours. The rooms are interior, so I would set two alarms before an early flight. It rates 7.4 over 1,158 reviews. Airside sleepers at Changi should look at the transit hotels instead. Fast Sleep at São Paulo Guarulhos is on the arrivals level of Terminal 2, rented by the hour, with a 24-hour front desk, and rates 8.2 over 5,342 reviews. Its cabins have bunk beds or a double bed; the standard cabins share bathrooms, only the suites have their own. It is the obvious bed between a late domestic arrival and an early departure from the same terminal. Sleep Box by Miracle is on the 4th floor of Domestic Terminal 2 at Bangkok Don Mueang, rated 7.4 over 437 reviews: closer to a small room, with a private washroom, but an international connection there means entering Thailand. Who a pod is for: a solo traveller with a gap of four to twelve hours who wants a flat bed, a locker and a shower in the building. Who should skip it: couples who want a private bathroom, light sleepers who mind curtains and shared walls, and families with young children, since FIRST CABIN takes one guest per cabin and refuses children under 12. YOTELAIR, whose family room sleeps four, is the exception. Visa and transit rules belong to each country's immigration authority, not to the pod operator, so check them there before counting on an airside bed.
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