How One U.S. Company Expects to Scale the Pop Up Container Hotel
Photo Credit: The G-Pod room units are produced by a group of Australian architects living in Hong Kong. Rollick Hotels
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The traveling public is ready for a rolling container hotel caravan sold through Airbnb, but there's a lot of moving parts to get this up and running.
Shawn Bouley, founder of Rollick Hotels, thinks there's a market for mobile cargo container sleeping rooms placed outside major U.S. events where traditional room inventory is sold out.
There is a precedent for this. Snoozebox in Britain has been delivering pop-up container hotels to sporting events throughout the country, such as the British Grand Prix and Ryder Cup. Bouley says a similar model will work on a larger scale in the U.S., because there are more major events, and the rooms can remain open all year in warm weather states.
Produced by G-Pod in Hong Kong, the modified 20-foot "Dwell" containers resemble luxury RVs, with a similar syste
