OUR MISSION
Our mission is to provide people with privacy to improve their lives.
We began as a wellness-based brand located in the airport to relieve the stress and fatigue caused by air travel. While we’re still a healthy sleep solution, we’re also a clean, sanitized, and calm oasis for anyone who needs to get serious work done or just wants a moment of peace in the midst of a crowded terminal.
OUR STORY
We envisioned a secure, dark, and quiet environment to encourage napping and sleep for travelers trying to rest in the airport.
In August of 2007, a group of physicians and healthcare professionals met with Dr. Sara Mednick, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and author of “Take a Nap! Change Your Life” to research the best way to deliver sleep and relaxation in airports.
Together, they built the first Minute Suites prototype based on their findings.
After launching at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in 2009, Minute Suites gained traction and started to expand. The founders opened a second location in Philadelphia International Airport in March of 2011 with even more suites. Two locations in Dallas Fort Worth International Airport came next, and finally Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
You can now find Minute Suites in ATL, BNA, BWI, CLT, DFW, DTW, JFK, LGA, and PHL airports.
More locations coming soon!
As Minute Suites grows, the necessity of finding a place to socially distance yourself and sleep in airports remains. The storefront continues to look increasingly modern, but the suites are the same clean, serene, and private retreats they have always been.
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92%
LIKED THE IDEA OF A PRIVATE AREA TO SLEEP IN AIRPORTS
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84%
FELT MINUTE SUITES PROVIDED MORE PRIVACY THAN AIRLINE CLUBS
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62%
WOULD TRY IT A PRIVATE RETREAT TO SLEEP IN AIRPORTS
TAKE A STEP FORWARD
From there, a talented team of architects, designers, and trade professionals built prototype suites to test the service.
With close attention to detail, the company finalized our suites design in March of 2009 and launched the first Minute Suites in Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on November 18, 2009. Building on the success of our Atlanta location, the second location was launched in the Philadelphia International Airport in March of 2011, providing another location while increasing the size of the concept to 13 suites.
As travelers responded very positively to the company’s service, expansion was deemed necessary. We launched our third location in Terminal D of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in April of 2013, and our fourth location in Terminal A of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Location number five opened in the Atrium of the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in April of 2018.
As of the summer of 2022, you can now find Minute Suites in Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, JFK, Laguardia, and Philadelphia airports. We will be adding a location to Houston in early fall and more locations to Atlanta airport in the coming year.
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