Two hotel-related research items to point you toward:
First, HotelChatter rounds up the best hotel brands for wi-fi access. It’s not always free access, but preference is given to those brands that make the wi-fi gratis, especially in the rooms, and not just the lobbies. Check it out.
Second, Chris Elliott digs deep into the numbers of Hilton’s recent sleep survey. While the press release touts the 93% of guests who say they slept well on the road, 96% of guests report sleeping better at home. With all those pillow-top mattresses, fluffy duvets, and more pillows than any person could ever need, what’s keeping the hotel bed from besting the bed at home? What makes or breaks a good night’s sleep?
A third of respondents mentioned noise. Regular readers know what’s coming. My longstanding pet peeve: Loudly clicking and slamming hotel doors that let in 80% of the sound from the hallway. The bed wars may be over, but the door wars have yet to be fought.
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May 2nd, 2007 at 10:14 am
Couldn’t agree with you more regarding
loud-closing hotel room doors. I would add ice machines and elevators to the list, as well.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I’m a heavy sleeper but I still find some hotels unbelievably noisy. It doesn’t seem to have much correlation to room rates either. One of the noisiest hotels I’ve ever been in was an otherwise very nice InterContinental Presidente in Mexico where virtually all of the floors were marble, both in the rooms and in all of the hallways. So you heard every footstep and every noise got amplified and echoed, from the neighboring room’s TV to the guy closing a door at the other end of the hall. Who’s the sadist idiot that came up with that design?
May 4th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Snooze on the march…
The Hilton Garden Inn hotels are pushing something called the Garden Sleep System, a sort of superbed, billed as an order of magnitude better than what one usually finds in a hotel room. Hilton put out a press release to……
May 4th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Stayed in a Best Western in Iowa recently and I had a king bed room with river view (most expensive rate) but ice machine, vending machine and mini gym where across from my door in the hall, not exactly quiet at night I can tell you.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
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