Airports Provide Nap Time for Weary in Nordic Designer Pods
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Faced with a cross-continent voyage from their home in eastern Finland to a Turkish holiday resort, Hanna Nuutinen and husband Tuomo Hakkarainen were confronted with a common parenting quandary: how to fit in a nap.
“Our daughter will soon turn three and we were thinking how do we handle this,” Nuutinen, a 32-year-old career adviser, said in an interview. The solution came in the form of Helsinki Airport’s latest passenger feature, the designer sleeping pod the size of a large bath tub, complete with a blind to conceal the occupant, a charging point for phones and a luggage compartment under the cocoon’s reclining seat.