Sleeping pods going for up to $200 a week inside an Auckland CBD apartment have been dismantled for violating a number of council bylaws.
The pods drew controversy when they popped up on Trade Me in August last year, with eight "state of the art" Japanese-style sleeping capsules in one apartment stacked two high.
Each pod on the bottom row was, at $180, $20 cheaper to rent per week than the pod above it.
Prospective tenants were encouraged to rent the pods inside the ground-level Hudson Brown apartment next to the Spark Arena, and share a kitchen and living space with other pod tenants.
But the Trade Me listing for the capsules, which had been seen more than 2000 times, was taken down within hours of being put up without explanation.