YOTEL: Futuristic Rest

You're tired, hungry, uncomfortable, and you can't even call your significant other for sympathy because your phone battery is long dead and you refuse to cough up the exorbitant long-distance pay phone fee. You just want to take a nap, put down your carry-on, and have a few minutes to recharge yourself and your phone. Sounds like someone needs a Yotel room. Yotel is the cool new idea popping up in London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The idea is simple; give people their own private space where they can shower, change, read, or nap in between flights.
Maybe you only need a couple of hours; maybe you need a whole night, either way Yotel is ready to accommodate even the most disgruntled airline passenger. While Yotel rooms aren't big (108 square feet), they are packed with all the necessities a traveler could need. In each room you'll find a flat screen TV, a pull down desk, air conditioning, free Internet, and a personal bathroom. Expect to spend any where from $50 (for a four hour rental) to $140 (an overnight stay on the high end), a cost that doesn't seem so bad once you calculate the number of $11 martini's your rage might drive you to consume in four hours.
Yotel is a cool idea because it arose as a direct response to a very specific and commonly found need. Yotel disrupts the idea of a traditional hotel room by putting performance and convenience first (we know all hotels say they do this, but we beg to differ). You can't get any closer to the airport than being in the airport, and you may not need or want to spend the money on an over priced, run of the mill hotel a couple of miles away. Think about it, Yotel rooms are sleekly designed, individualized (price per hour or night), and offer all the goodies even the most techie tech geek could want.