<p>I know I am being really stupid, but I can’t figure this out. I was looking at a Bed and Breakfast for my son in Barcelona and it shows on the website that the single room is 7m2. My son thinks that means 7 meters squared. I know the room is suppose to be small, but how small is it is really?</p>
<p>I know the wise people here will be able to help this dumb American!</p>
<p>Seven meters is about 7 yards or 21 feet, so the room is about 21 feet by 21 feet, more or less. That would be a very large room for a European hotel, at least in my experience. (In my price range they’re usually about 5 meters squared.)</p>
<p>Its small. About 96" by 96". The <em>room</em> probably contains a twin bed and a tabel/chair. Bathrooms are common and outside.</p>
<p>At least its not a capsule room like this one in Tokyo!!!
[Capsule</a> Hotel | Tokyo | Video Tour. Information and tour of a capsule hotel, which has extremely small hotel rooms.](<a href=“http://www.geobeats.com/videoclips/japan/tokyo/capsule-hotel]Capsule”>http://www.geobeats.com/videoclips/japan/tokyo/capsule-hotel)</p>
<p>If 7m2 means seven square meters then the room is small. If it means seven meters squared then the room is quite large.</p>
<p>A meter is a little over a yard. I know this room is suppose to be small; I am just trying to figure out what 7m2 means. Is this a European way to show measurement, and if so what does it really mean?</p>
<p>I can not imagine the room is 21’ x 21’ as the owner repeated that the room was small. This is a room in a B&B with one bed, most likely a twin; I am guessing very little if any other furniture.</p>
<p>I have seen articles on the capsule hotels; I could never sleep in there!</p>
<p>7 sq.meters = 7 (1.1)(1.1) = 8.47 sq.yd or (8.47)(3)(3) = 76.2 sq.ft . We are talking about a 10’ x 7.6’ room, or 8’ x 9.5’ or something similar.</p>
<p>It may be that the room is 3x4m, or 9x12 feet, which would the size of a typical bedroom in the US (no bath).</p>
<p>It’s not that hard. </p>
<p>A 10 ft by 10 ft room would be 100 ft2 or 100ft^2</p>
<p>A 3.5 m by 2 m room would be 7 m2 or 7 m^2.</p>
<p>3.5 meters is about 11.5 feet
2 meters is about 6.8 feet</p>
<p>This will help you visualizing european beds’ sizes.</p>
<p>[Bed</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed]Bed”>Bed - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>The typical bed of 80/90 cm x 200 cm would take about 1/4 of that room. A palace in Europe. :p</p>
<p>well, the easy way to remember is just multiply whatever in m2 by 10 to get the ft2. </p>
<p>in xiggi example, a 7 m2 would be about 70 ft2 (actual = 11.5*6.6 = 75.9 ft2)</p>
<p>Precise method:
1 meter = 3.28 ft
So 1 square meter = 3.28*3.28 square ft = 10.76 square ft</p>
<p>I never remember that so I use the 10-fold rule.</p>
<p>We’ve stayed in rooms in Europe that were much smaller than that…With our luggage in the room, having to walk across the bed to get to the bathroom. H is 2 meters tall (6’7"), and we learned that the top level rooms in those quaint little hotels in Paris may have 7 m2 size floors, but he was able to stand up in only about 3 m2 of the room!! Have fun–Barcelona is a vibrant and unique city.</p>
<p>Scipio: interpretation is everything, isn’t it? I appreciate your clarification. Of course what was meant was 7 square meters–or, as people have so nicely pointed out, without making fun of me–about 7 feet by 12 feet… which is just about the size of most European hotel rooms.</p>
<p>My son has no problem with the room being small; we were just curious what (number)m(number) meant as it isn’t a way of measuring that we were familiar with.</p>
<p>I just thought it was interesting that the owner email me and mentioned that the room was small. I knew rooms in Europe were known to be small, so I was thinking this room might be even smaller than small!! He can live with 7x12 without a problem.</p>
<p>in hong kong, we typically use m/cm to describe a person’s height yet we use ft^2 to describe the size of a room/condo. the weighs in the gym are marked in KG but people talk about “pounds” when purchasing fruits in farmers’ market. ;)</p>