on hotel beds
Oct. 6th, 2006 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99Warning: This will be of no interest to those of you who do not travel and therefore do not stay in hotels.
There has been a noticeable trend lately in hotel bedding away from sheets and blankets. I have noticed this throughout the world in hotels that are obviously not related to each other by some chain. I can only imagine that it is some massive cost savings to the hotel, and thus they are all picking it up.
Most hotel beds these days have a heavy, pillowy quilt inside a sheet-like covering that I imagine is washable. The drawback is that there is no temperature flexibility. Either you have it on top of you (roaring hot, especially in summer) or nothing (which bothers me, and is often just chilly enough to wake me up). I try to do half under, half out, but instead of it averaging out to a pleasant sleep temperature, I am half covered in sweat, and half freezing. *sigh*
My current favorite workaround is to request a fan, and thus lower the temperature to a range where covered-by-quilt is sleep-friendly.
Do you encounter this? Do you have any solution or suggestion? I'm willing to bug the hotel management, but not sure what to ask for.
Note: Current hotel has only broken fans, they claim. *sigh*
There has been a noticeable trend lately in hotel bedding away from sheets and blankets. I have noticed this throughout the world in hotels that are obviously not related to each other by some chain. I can only imagine that it is some massive cost savings to the hotel, and thus they are all picking it up.
Most hotel beds these days have a heavy, pillowy quilt inside a sheet-like covering that I imagine is washable. The drawback is that there is no temperature flexibility. Either you have it on top of you (roaring hot, especially in summer) or nothing (which bothers me, and is often just chilly enough to wake me up). I try to do half under, half out, but instead of it averaging out to a pleasant sleep temperature, I am half covered in sweat, and half freezing. *sigh*
My current favorite workaround is to request a fan, and thus lower the temperature to a range where covered-by-quilt is sleep-friendly.
Do you encounter this? Do you have any solution or suggestion? I'm willing to bug the hotel management, but not sure what to ask for.
Note: Current hotel has only broken fans, they claim. *sigh*
