Holiday Inn employees keep bed warm for happy customer in Surrey
Posted on 01/22/2010 7:41:02 AM PST by JoeProBono
Holiday Inn, operator of over 4,000 hotels worldwide, will begin to offer a free five-minute "human bed warming service" at it's London Kensington hotel throughout next week. If requested, a willing member of hotel staff will jump in your bed, dressed head to foot in an all-in-one sleeper suit, until your nightly chamber warms up.
"Like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed" is how Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall described the idea.
Bed Warmers Jacqui Barry and Nick Woods (pictured) helped to beat the big freeze for Laurence Lancashire, centre, at the Holiday Inn Kingston-South in Surbiton, Surrey.
Dr Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, said the idea could help people get off to sleep. He said: "There's plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the beginning of the night when body temperature starts to drop.
"A warm bed - approximately 20 to 24C - is a good way to start this process whereas a cold bed would inhibit sleep.
"Holiday Inn's new bed warmers service should help people achieve a good night's sleep especially as it's taking much longer for them to warm up when they come in from the snow."
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Holiday Inn employees keep bed warm for happy customer in Surrey
They have this in Vegas...they call them hookers.
Ummmmmm — no.
Help! I’m stupid and incompetent! I cannot warm a bed with my own body heat! No one ever showed me how — you do it for me! Waaaaaaaahhh!
Because electric heaters can achieve the same result faster and more precisely, there has to be something else going on here...
Personally I’d prefer the old-fashioned long-handled bed warmer filled with hot coals. Much more picturesque. Less of the “Ewww” factor.
SSSSSSHHHHHH! The libs will make it a “right” for all if they find out!
I wouldn’t stay in a hotel that can’t afford to purchase electric blankets. This is absolutely disgusting.
Submariners have had this service forever.
Creepy.
Stupid idea. No wonder the UK is sinking fast.
My wife just uses an electric hair dryer...when I’m not there.
That’s exactly what our German Shepherd does for my husband, LOL! When hubby gets in, the dog then moves to his own side of the queen-sized bed where he has his own blanket and pillow. We had to put two separate beds in our bedroom a few years ago because I got tired of getting pushed out of bed by the dog.
Looks like a Three Dog Night!
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