Hotel Beds – Better than home or a disturbed sleeping experience?
This is an important question for many frequent travellers, considering that the traveller may have spent the previous night on an airplane and had a poor night’s sleep, so you check in to your hotel fatigued and having to cope with a time zone difference. During my life I have done a lot of travelling for business, although not as much as I would have liked for pleasure! Sometimes I arrive at a hotel and am immediately very pleased other time you just know that it is not going to be a pleasant stay. What matters to me; a check in which is swift and efficient is nice, the room must be good, the bathroom must be spotless, good local amenities all help, a business centre is good to have but nowadays in room Wi-Fi is what I really need. In the end you choose a hotel to sleep at so what matters are beds because sleep is the central experience of a hotel stay. Obviously crisp well laundered sheets are very nice and a comfortable mattress essential. Hotels with cheap and nasty beds should be avoided at all costs.
Our bedroom in the hotel
Some hotel groups seems to have grasped the importance of sleep as a central part of the guest experience and one particular chain, who speak of their beds as being heavenly, not just because the mattresses are good, though they are of course, but also their blankets, pillows, pillow cases, duvets and sheets. Some of these hotels not only emphasise their heavenly beds as a great part of the hotel experience but have also gone into the bedding business and sell bedding both at their hotels and online, I do not know if this is a serious business or a part of their marketing effort, in truth I suspect it is both. Certain hotels whilst quite good can only be considered as special because of their heavenly beds and I would not use them except for the fact that I can be so sure of a good night’s sleep after my flight. Other hotels attention to sleep varies a lot, far too many hotels seem to see their customers as easy money for their Food and Beverage departments; personally, I would rather use a local restaurant than eat in the hotel because the local restaurant will almost invariably offer better food at a lower price. As for hotel bars the same applies, a local bar is always the better option. Of course, it is sometimes imbibing at the local bar that makes one sleep so well in your hotel room. Hotels do need to work hard at the guests sleep experience because so many people do not naturally sleep well away from home. On balance, yes I do think the sleep experience can be better at a good hotel than at home.
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