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We Can't Imagine Having Trouble Sleeping at The Plaza Athenee But If You Do...
For the most troubled sleepers, not even the finest sheets in one of the best luxury hotels in the world can help you catch some much-needed Zs. But now at the swank Plaza Athenee Hotel in Paris, there's a scientific solution to insomnia and jetlag symptons with the NightCove Sleep Solution that's been installed bedside in the hotel's Art Deco Suites.
Developed by the Sleep Clinic at Hotel-Dieu hospital in Paris, this device is a unique bedside lamp that helps improve the quality of sleep by bathing guests in selected light wavelengths and sound frequencies that are specially adapted for the physiological needs of sleep. Click on "Sleep/Anti-jetlag/Nap" to stimulate melatonin with a red glow and the hush of waves, then greet the day with a "Wakening" of soft music and blue light similar to early daylight.
Like we said, we can't imagine having trouble sleeping at the Plaza Athenee which is one of the most sublime forms of hotel heaven but if you do, at least you know the hotel can help you out.
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Brooklyn's Music-Inspired Hotel Will Guarantee A 'Sound' Night's Sleep
We always like it when new hotels start interacting with their guests way before their doors have even opened. And at Brooklyn's music-inspired Hotel BPM, which doesn't open until April, there has been quite a bit of community involvement going on, practically since day one. Like posting shots of the finished bathrooms on Instagram. Or asking Facebook and Twitter fans to give the hotel's 76 custom-made mattresses a snappy name.
Last week, the "What's That Bed Called?" contest yielded a winner: "The Sound Sleeper." Which kind of makes us think there should be some kind of speaker system installed directly into the mattress—wouldn't that be cool! But maybe not so practical...
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Would You Trust A Hotel That Recycles Its Pillows?
Forgive us if we're way behind on this, but we just learned about a machine called the Pillow-Vac, which looks kind of like a photocopier but instead of toner and ink, it gets filled with down clusters and feathers. Designed to clean and "renovate" old pillows, the Pillow-Vac literally eats up all the dust-filled, germ-ridden, lumpy innards, sifts out the crap, and then spits everything back out into a pristine, fluffy new "ticking" (the technical term for the shell of a pillow). Pretty neat, huh?
We were tipped off to the whole world of pillow rehabilitation by Hilton Concord in San Francisco, who just announced their own multi-million dollar renovation—including brand new sustainable programs, like cold-water dishwashing, food waste reduction, and of course, pillow recycling.
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Westin's Heavenly Bed Will Soon Be On Sale at Pottery Barn
If Santa doesn't come down the chimney with a Westin Heavenly Bed, you are just going to have to take matters into your own hands and buy one yourself. Fortunately, it will be a lot easier to do come December 28 as Westin has just announced they will be selling the Heavenly Beds online at Pottery Barn (as well as in Pottery Barn stores and through their catalog.)
Actually the Heavenly-Barn roll-out will be a little staggered. You can purchase a Heavenly Bed in twin, full, queen, king and California king sizes, priced from $1,195 to $1,795, online starting on December 28 and then you can go into Pottery Barn store starting January 3rd to test it out for yourself before bringing it home.
But of course, the best way to thoroughly "test" a Heavenly Bed is to have stayed at a Westin Hotel recently which shouldn't be hard to do because um, they are everywhere. Sweet dreams!
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Sleep On The Bed You've Named At Hotel BPM
The hotel contest world is absolutely buzzing this week. First, a beer-'stache tournament going on at Standard Hotels. And now this: a mattress-naming competition that will land the grand prize winner a 1-night stay at Brooklyn's brand new Hotel BPM.
Yep. The DJ-owned, 75-room hotel, which will open in Sunset Park at the start of 2012, is seeking a cool, hip name for their cool, hip custom-designed mattresses. The contest is dubbed, appropriately, "What's That Bed Called?" From what we can tell, everything else in the hotel has already been named, so the brunt of the work is done.
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Cookies and a Lullaby: Is This The Perfect Turndown?
Chocolates at turndown are all well and good. Port, even better. But, if we lay aside our greedy tendencies for a moment, we’d say that this sincere wish for us to have a good sleep is probably better than both of them.
We found this on our pillow at bedtime during our stay at the Golden Tower Hotel in Florence: a copy of the Brahms Lullaby, which sounds like this and reads like this:
Lullaby and good night, with roses bedight
With lilies bedecked is baby's wee bed,
Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed
Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessedLullaby and good night, thy mother's delight
Bright angels beside my darling shall stand;
They will guard thee from harms, thou shalt wake in my arms
They will guard thee from harms, thou shalt wake in my arms
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How To Not Get Lost Inside The Bowery House
It isn't easy, but there are ways to navigate the twisting, poorly-lit labyrinth that is the Bowery House Hotel. Just walk very carefully and slowly, remaining aware that any of these doors could fly open at any moment, knocking you off your weary feet and into another person's cabin. Also, shine your smartphone for additional light. It helps.
To call the cabins at the hotel 'compact' would be an understatement. But for all of its 'personal space' issues, this place also has a ton of charm. Dorm-style "bunk rooms" are available for people traveling in groups (same-sex only), but the real winners are the "original cabins." Once you've imprinted the floor layout into your mind, all that's left to enjoy is the tiny, dollhouse-like room, which barely fits a bed, dresser, and some (minimal) luggage. See below for photos from inside!
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What is This at The Hotel Bel-Air?
We like to keep it fun but informative here at HotelChatter so our newest series, What is This? is devoted to odd-looking items in hotel rooms that upon first glance look as if they serve only a decorative purpose. But everything happens for a reason, right? And we're here to tell you what these things really do.
The other week when we were perusing a Canyon View Suite at the newly reopened Hotel Bel-Air we were immediately drawn to this rectangle thingie embedded in the bed's leather headboard. What could it be? The only way to find out was to start poking at it.
So poke we did and voila! Once we pushed on it, a reading light popped out.
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These Are Your Favorite Hotel Beds
No, not these ones. The ones below!
Our unofficial Sleep Week is drawing to an end and we don't wanna wake up. Fortunately, we don't have to just yet. After we detailed our favorite hotel beds on Wednesday, TripAdvisor thoughtfully retweeted our story, asking folks to chime in with their favorite hotel beds. Coupled with the comments on our story, we've got a pretty good list going of best hotel beds worldwide.
Because a good night's sleep is a "basic human right" when paying for a hotel room, we thought you should see where some of the best hotel beds can be found.
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Hotel Beds for Sale: How to Get that Dreamy Hotel Night's Sleep Every Night
Don't doze off just yet! Not until you read our Sleep Week round-up of hotel branded beds!
Hotel Bed Wars have been going on since 2005 but we thought it would be a good idea to start listing all the different hotel brands and their beds. And since we now know how important the bed is to your sleep, we've also listed where you can buy these hotel beds and bring 'em home. Nighty Night!
SHERATON HOTELS
The Sheraton Sweet Sleeper (above)
Sheraton Hotels at Home allows you to order the Sweet Sleeper starting at $1,700 for a king-sized mattress.
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HotelChatter's Favorite Hotel Beds Ever
Sleep Week continues!
Yesterday, we looked at some of the things you hotel guests do to send yourself off to dreamland in a strange new hotel bed. And not surprisingly, a lot of you said the most crucial part of your sleep routine was the comfiness of the bed--in that if the bed is good, there shouldn't be any problems with getting shut-eye.
So that leads us to the question--where are the best hotel beds? We polled some of our editors and frequent contributors from our family of travel sites--HotelChatter, Jaunted and VegasChatter--(yup, we're all related!) and asked them to submit their favorite hotel bed experiences.
And they are....
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How Do You Get to Sleep in a Strange New Hotel Bed?
Looking at this, we're already mapping out our best strategy for falling asleep as quick as possible.
Welcome to Unofficial Sleep Week on HotelChatter! An entire week (ok, really just four days) devoted to hotel sleeping habits, hotel beds and hotel amenities designed to help you get the best rest.
What actually inspired this post was a recent Hotels.com survey on the sleeping patterns of travelers in hotels. Some sample discoveries? Ozzies prefer TV to sex, Hong Kong guests like to eat in bed, Indian travelers care the most about the hotel mattress quality, Spaniards like to get frisky and Mexican guests think the hotel beds are better than their ones at home.
The survey also touched upon some other sleep habits of travelers, specifically how they get to sleep in a new hotel bed. While hotels are in a fierce competition to provide the luxest bed in hopes of giving their guests the most supreme sleep possible, sometimes our travel-weary bodies can't adjust to a foreign hotel bed on the first night.
And since good old U.S. of A seems to have been left out of the survey, we thought this was a good time to ask you dear readers how do you get to sleep in a strange new hotel bed?*
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