Business plan 2

[pozorvlak]

A Japanese-style coffin hotel, with really good soundproofing, somewhere central in Edinburgh during the Festival, open 24 hours a day, with beds rentable by the hour. Imagine: you're a performer, your show's just finished, leaving you physically and mentally drained, and it's only 10am/midday/3pm/5pm/11pm/1am/whenever. Later on, you've got shows to see and flyering to do, but right now you just need a lie-down and a quick nap. But (because it's the Festival, and accommodation is in short supply) it would take the best part of an hour to walk home, and by the time you got there you'd have to start walking back into town...

Better yet, a coffin hotel in a shipping container, that could be towed around the place to similar events and set up with minimal fuss. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that you could fit 12 standard-size coffin beds into a 20ft shipping container (or 24 into a 40ft one): my years at boarding school suggest we could probably up the density a bit without too much trouble. Annoyingly, shipping containers are only 2.5m wide, so we'd have to take the whole side off to allow access rather than just running a corridor down it if we want the beds to be 2m long.

Ventilation and laundry would be problems, but someone somewhere has already solved those problems, I'm betting...

Comments

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

I was thinking Grassmarket. Possibly the Meadows, if they'd let me. Teviot Square. Scouting suitable sites would be part of the preliminary feasibility stages, obviously :-)

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Also George Square Gardens.