{"id":187000,"date":"2026-03-11T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187000\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:35:10","slug":"miami-international-airports-first-sleep-center-awakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187000\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami International Airport\u2019s first sleep center awakens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Written by Miami Today<\/a> on March 11, 2026<\/p>\n

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A county contract napping since it was approved in June 2024 is due to awaken this week in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Miami International Airport as the first of two airport sleep centers opens.<\/p>\n

The 15 rooms inside the Wait n\u2019 Rest facility can bed down one to four guests using one or two beds. The rooms feature in-room touch screen TV monitors and access to private showers, fresh towels and snacks at hourly rates for up to eight hours.<\/p>\n

With the opening, the airport is awakening to a global trend of sleep centers to serve waiting passengers who aren\u2019t looking for the full overnight amenities of the airport\u2019s internal hotel. The sleep center deal could bring in $10 million over 10 years from two centers. The second is to open this summer.<\/p>\n

Miami International Airport is late to wake up to the popularity of sleep centers. Airports around the world offer such amenities. But like pajamas, one size doesn\u2019t fit all: some airports have tiny sleep pods at low rates, others offer mini-rooms with a bed, desk and chair. Some charge extra for a wake-up shower. Costs range across the board, and the Miami International deal gives the Boynton Beach-based operator owned by CEO Duilio Sanguineti broad leeway to set its own fees and list of services.<\/p>\n

In June 2024, the airport, along with Miami-Dade County, entered an agreement with Wait n\u2019 Rest, a sleep center company that runs similar sites at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Colombia, and Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru.<\/p>\n

This new center is to be the company\u2019s third and newest center, as well as its first in the United States.<\/p>\n

Construction began last summer on the first MIA sleep center, set to open at Gate D15 at Concourse D of the north terminal.<\/p>\n

The second sleep center in Concourse H in the south terminal is to be notably smaller than the first, Mr. Sanguineti said, containing only eight rooms, with a maximum of 25 occupants at any time.<\/p>\n

Wait n\u2019 Rest will be charging per hour per person, offering package deals ranging from $40 to $60 on average, in order to give passengers flexibility in their accommodations while they rest and wait for their flight in comfort, he said last year.<\/p>\n

An airport representative said last year that construction will be funded by Wait n\u2019 Rest\u2019s own revenue, with the county collecting 25% of the centers\u2019 gross revenues.<\/p>\n

According to Mr. Sanguineti, who founded the company in 2020, Wait n\u2019 Rest is meant to give travelers competitive options to enjoy a restful, high-end experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur whole vision for the service is to make airports feel first-class,\u201d he said last year. \u201cWe see that you have a variety of VIP lounges in airports around the USA \u2026 you have all the categories that you can think of, and I do think that sleeping is a core need. I think it was about time that a service came to fulfill that need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weather or mechanical delays at the airport could build sleep centers\u2019 take and the airport\u2019s share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advertisement Written by Miami Today on March 11, 2026 A county contract napping since it was approved in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-187000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}