Would you stay in a 'compact' hotel room?

Name: Would you stay in a 'compact' hotel room?
Uploaded: 2013-07-02T15:52:06.000Z
Duration: 1 min 34 s
Description: Hotel chain Premier Inn has announced it is expanding into the market of compact rooms.

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UK hotel chain Premier Inn has announced it is expanding into the market of compact rooms.

A typical "Hub room" is just 11 square metres in size - but squeezes in a bed, television, storage facility and an en-suite bathroom.

So will we soon be seeing Japanese style 'sleeping capsules' in the UK?

Whitbread Chief Executive Andy Harrison told BBC Radio 5 live's Breakfast, "These are not capsules - these are perfectly sizable rooms... aimed at people that want to be in the centre of a city."

2 July 2013