A Birmingham hotel where guests can sleep in windowless “pods” claimed to evoke the ambience of a luxury yacht cabin has fallen into administration.

Nitenite hotel on Holliday Street has 104 bedrooms and was built to imitate the “pod” or “capsule” hotel concept which first became successful in Japan in the late 1970s and 1980s.

When it opened in 2006, the hotel boasted that each windowless room would have a 45-inch plasma screen so guests can watch films or opt instead for “window mode” which would screen images of the world outside.

It was meant to be the first of 30 similar projects, totalling 4,000 bedrooms, in city centre locations throughout the UK.

The hotel is now up for sale after being placed into the hands of joint Zolfo Cooper administrators Ryan Grant and Simon Wilson, with Colliers International handling the sale.