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.
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.
Hotel linen always has that hotel linen smell.
Haha, woops. :rolleyes: (me rolling my eyes at myself.)
Sometimes I sleep okay in hotels if I have sleeping pills.
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
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.