# Do you sleep well in hotel rooms? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-well-in-hotel-rooms/696468 "2014-08-25T17:22:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-well-in-hotel-rooms/696468/61 "2014-08-26T12:31:08Z")
I sleep quite well in hotels. Set the A/C on “Arctic” setting and I am out until the alarm goes off. If I do have a problem I can hit the hotel bar for a nightcap. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-well-in-hotel-rooms/696468/62 "2014-08-26T14:09:22Z")
I usually sleep well in a hotel but I can get acutely disoriented when I wake in a dark room that’s not my own - even if I’ve only dozed off for a few minutes. My brain really thinks I’m at home which has caused me to walk into furniture and ( once ) take a hard fall out of the bed ( it was a quaint B+B with a really high bed ). These misadventures can make it hard to get back to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-well-in-hotel-rooms/696468/63 "2014-08-26T23:06:41Z")
Hotel linen always has that hotel linen smell. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-well-in-hotel-rooms/696468/64 "2014-08-27T00:11:09Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > That’s sarcasm there, Emily. Haha, woops. :rolleyes: (me rolling my eyes at myself.) Sometimes I sleep okay in hotels if I have sleeping pills. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-well-in-hotel-rooms/696468/65 "2014-08-27T03:50:05Z")
I discovered a long time ago that I’m “a two-star, family-owned hotel kind of gal”. 4/5-star hotel, either “luxury” or “business”: - internet access sucks (and the receptionists are organically incapable of resetting the router, even with more than half a dozen customers offering to explain how to do it) - huge bed (they rarely have two-beds rooms), huge too hot duvet (rarely, two individual duvets), large too-thin pillows. Even in those with a “pillow menu”, every pillow is too soft - room service food sucks - carpet - when was the last time the a/c filters got cleaned - a desk that’s barely big enough for a laptop, never mind elbows - I think I mentioned carpet - marble bathroom (slippery), hard to get into tub or shower stall 2-star hotel: - internet access works well - higher likelihood of having a wider variety of beds, may even have single-occupancy rooms - bedding arrangements tend to be weather-appropriate - pillows are either medium for everybody or varied in hardness (not just in shape) - lower likelihood of carpet - since the low likelihood of carpet is often linked to an allergic family member, clean a/c filters - desk has a greater likelihood of being large enough to do homework or computer work on - non-slippery bathroom floors, shower stall (or, less likely, tub) easy to get into and out of - unlikely to have room service, likely to be willing to point you to a number of bars and restaurants nearby or to whip something simple up if those will be closed I travel a lot and move a lot, so waking up in a strange room is a regular occurrence for me ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-well-in-hotel-rooms/696468/66 "2014-08-27T13:03:27Z")
It can go either way. I prefer a freezing room, a rock hard mattress and a fairly solid pillow. If the room is too warm, the bed is a marshmallow and it has those thin fluufy wafty pillows that smash flatter than a pancake, I can’t sleep for shit. I can sleep through doors banging, random light leaks, cars and trucks revving in the parking lot and kids [or adults] running screaming through the halls. I spent plenty of quality time in hospitals and lived in a dorm for 3 years and then in a slum area in Virginia Beach. I can sleep through almost any disturbance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-well-in-hotel-rooms/696468.md?page=3)