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Shoebox rooms at Amsterdam hotels
Soaring rates for Amsterdam hotel rooms have prompted a shrink to fit strategy which will have travellers sleeping in windowless boxes.
The new Qbic hotel already rents out "cubis", the size of a walk-in wardrobe, and opening soon is an Amsterdam hotel made entirely of prefabricated pods, built off-site.
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is also set to erect another chain of pods called CitizenM. The rooms may have nice touches like and king-sized beds but they measure less than 100 square feet.
They're being manufactured in the countryside of the Netherlands and everything is incorporated - from the wall mounted TV to the toilet paper in the bathroom. Once complete they'll be driven to the site on lorries and thrown up in record time.
This article was written for TravelSavvy Europe by Amy Armitage. For more information see: Amsterdam - Where to stay. If you know of an interesting European travel related news story, please get in contact.
