If you think you sleep better in a hotel room than at home, you're not alone: According to one survey, about 73% of people surveyed reported better sleep when they crash in a hotel. While some of that might be exhaustion from travel or being away from stress factors, there’s something else going on here: Hotels have designed their rooms to be as sleep-friendly as possible . Some hotels even lean into this phenomenon, marketing “ sleep retreats ” and offering amenities like pillow menus .
There are several reasons you might want your home to emulate the look and feel of a high-end hotel, but if sleep is your enemy, you can one more to the list: Setting up your bedroom like a hotel room can lead to better sleep. Choose quality bedding This is pretty obvious: Even mid-tier hotels offer luxurious mattresses, pillows, and linens that make crawling under the covers a comforting, pleasurable experience that scratchy old sheets and a mattress you’ve moved through six apartments will never replicate. If you have an existential sleeping experience in a specific hotel, you might be able to buy their bedding directly from them to get the same experience at home.
You can also make a note of the bedding and research whether you can buy it directly somewhere (my wife and I once simply asked a hotel what kind of sheets they used, then found them online). But just by upgrading your mattress, sheets, and pillows, you’ll give yourself a sleeping experience closer to hotel living. Make.