Pop-up 'Container Hotel' Hits Belgium. Extreme Hipness Ensues | CNN Travel

Sleeping Around converts abandoned shipping containers into boutique hotel rooms, guests into trendy cargo

What's more important to you when picking a hotel -- convenient location or cool factor? A new Belgian pop-up hotel with the racy name Sleeping Around is betting on the latter. The company has converted a number of old Chinese shipping containers into wandering boutique hotel rooms.

What's more important to you when picking a hotel -- convenient location or cool factor?

A new Belgian pop-up hotel with the racy name Sleeping Around is betting on the latter. The company has converted a number of old Chinese shipping containers into wandering boutique hotel rooms.

The mobile rooms travel as a small "village" of six containers -- four sleeping containers, one breakfast/lounge container and another used as a sauna.

In addition to its modern concept and design, Sleeping Around claims that only environmentally friendly materials were used to build the pop-up hotel.

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