{"id":1453,"date":"2011-02-08T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2011-02-08T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T04:44:00","slug":"capsule-hotel-for-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/02\/capsule-hotel-for-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Capsule Hotel for Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_1Ei_qT2TgVI\/TS3ALPUt2ZI\/AAAAAAAAHdQ\/_fRKwgKh2JU\/s1600\/japan-capsule-hotel-china.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_1Ei_qT2TgVI\/TS3ALPUt2ZI\/AAAAAAAAHdQ\/_fRKwgKh2JU\/s400\/japan-capsule-hotel-china.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>China&#8217;s first capsule hotel is set to open in Shanghai, targeting budget-conscious travellers in the country&#8217;s glitzy commercial capital and close to the central railway station.<\/p>\n<p>Capsule hotels, whose rooms have just enough space for sleeping and little else, originated in Japan for tired and overworked &#8220;salarymen&#8221;. Today, they are low budget accommodation and appeal to travellers and renters alike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are targeting single travellers who are looking to spend less, about one-third or two-thirds less than the prices of a regular hotel,&#8221; Ta Zan, a 32-year-old Shanghai resident and owner of the hotel who got the idea working at a capsule hotel in Tokyo as a student.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel will offer a rack rate of 68 yuan ($10.24) for a stay of 10 hours and 88 yuan ($13.26) for 24 hours.<br \/>Ta will only offer rooms to male guests initially and he hopes his hotel will open before summer as he works with the local government to gain all necessary approvals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s first capsule hotel is set to open in Shanghai, targeting budget-conscious travellers in the country&#8217;s glitzy commercial capital and close to the central railway station. Capsule hotels, whose rooms have just enough space for sleeping and little else, originated in Japan for tired and overworked &#8220;salarymen&#8221;. Today, they are low budget accommodation and appeal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}