Tourists in China are being offered ultra-cheap accommodation, but The Mirror reveals “noticeable inconveniences” to residents’ comfort.
According to media reports, a cheap overnight stay is available at a hotel located in Zhengzhou: the guest is offered a room of 8 square meters for 60 yuan.
The details of living in a super economy classroom were told by Chinese blogger Hei Mao Zhang. According to him, he decided to rent a number for a short time, and the tabloid described his experiment.
He was filmed lying on a bed with direct access to the toilet. To the left of his head, within reach, about 30 cm from his ear, is a toilet that looks like it serves as a bedside table.
To the side of the bed is a sink that is close enough that you can wash cuddled up against it or wash your hands while sitting on the toilet. For some, such a layout will seem atypical, but for some, it can be very convenient and rational.
Hei Mao Zhang spent about three hours in the room and then spoke about the layout of the facility.
“I opened the door and saw a corridor. There were such small rooms on both sides of it. They should be part of an apartment that was divided into five or six small compartments,” the Red Star News blogger explained. “But the bed is too close to the toilet.”
The owner of the hotel told the media that micro rooms are in high demand because they are cheap. Most of the hotel guests are patients of a large medical center located a few hundred meters away or their relatives.
A video from the hotel has gone viral in China and has generated controversy due to the tiny size of the rooms.
“Even the prison cell is larger than this number,” writes one user.
“Maybe if he moves to the other side of the bed, the ‘smell’ won’t be as noticeable,” adds a second.
“It’s depressing,” summed up a third.
But 8-meter rooms are not the limit of minimalism. In Germany, there is a hotel with a width of only 2.5 meters and an area of 53 square meters. This facility is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest hotel in the world (it has held this title since 2008).