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Waste your time on beautiful things

To judge whether a five-star hotel is really qualified, we usually look at three points: first, the level of cocktails made by the bartender in the bar, second, the brand of bathroom facilities, and third, the mattress in the room.

We spend a lot of money to stay in star-rated hotels, leaving the familiar atmosphere and being more demanding on the sleeping environment. A good hotel will not only meet the basic requirements for sleep quality, but also provide an unexpected sense of luxury and a very healing comfort.

I have a friend who lives in Beijing. He goes to work at 10 am every day and gets off work at 12 pm. Whenever he is sick, he will stay in luxury hotels such as Four Seasons, Rosewood, and Waldorf for one or two nights. He does not use the hotel's SPA, gym and other services. What he cares most about is whether the bed is comfortable.

Once, when he came out of the emergency room, he didn't go home, but went directly to the hotel. He said, "When I am under great pressure at work and my body is weak, I really need a comfortable bed to heal and have a good sleep."

▲The bed in a star-rated hotel makes people want to take it home after sleeping on it

There is indeed a science to getting a good night's sleep.

I think the most thorough research on sleep science is still done by the old five-star hotels. Today, the Moon Happiness Research Institute will take five-star hotels as an example to reveal the secrets of the beds in star hotels. After reading this article, you can also build a comfortable bed at home that feels like sleeping on the clouds.

Sleeping in the cloud is a "systematic project"

After experiencing the feeling of "sleeping on clouds" on the beds of star-rated hotels, many people will try every means to buy the same mattress as the hotel, trying to reproduce that extraordinary sleeping experience at home. However, after spending thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan to bring the same mattress home, they can never sleep the same way.

For example, the "Heavenly Bed" of Westin Hotel is famous for being extremely comfortable to sleep on. After some people dug deep into the bed, they found out that the mattress was made by Kingkoil. As if they had discovered a business secret, they excitedly bought a "cost-effective" model of the same brand on Tmall, but found that they could not get the same pleasure of being wrapped all over the body as in a hotel.

Because the Heavenly Bed is more than just a mattress!

The original "Heavenly Bed" consists of more than ten categories , from bottom to top including a 30cm floor-standing spring bed frame, a 31cm thick custom mattress with a comfort layer, a mattress protector, three layers of 250-thread-count sheets, a down quilt made of 90% white goose down and 10% white goose feathers, a synthetic quilt, etc.

▲Heavenly Bed full package

The full set of components includes pillows, cushions, duvet covers, quilts, sheets, topper, mattress, bed frame, bed skirt, etc. It is obviously impossible to create the same sleeping environment with just one mattress.

▲It’s not as simple as a mattress

This set can be purchased on Westin's official website, with an average price of 20,000 yuan.

More luxurious hotels such as Four Seasons, St. Regis and Ritz-Carlton have also spared no effort to promote their own beds. Although each component can be purchased separately, the hotel recommends purchasing the whole bed. The price difference is not much, basically more than 30,000 yuan.

▲Sleeping system on bed in star-rated hotels

Building a comfortable bed is a systematic project:

The most important thing is the mattress

The normal lifespan of a mattress is very long and it is an important factor in determining the comfort of the bed, so the mattresses in five-star hotels are generally of high quality. Some luxury hotels have higher requirements and will customize their own mattresses based on their years of operating experience in cooperation with famous mattress brands. Most of them cooperate with the 3S in the mattress industry: Simmons, Sealy and Serta.

The "Heavenly Bed" mattress was developed by Westin at a cost of 30 million U.S. dollars. Kingkoil is only a brand manufacturer and does not have the sales authorization, so it is basically impossible to buy the same mattress as Westin from Kingkoil at present.

A few hotels even use Sweden's top-grade Hastens beds , which ordinary people cannot afford even if they don't eat or drink for a year.

If you want to spend 1 million yuan on your bedroom, you can do it with a Hastens Vividus series double bed. The classic 2000T model costs 300,000 yuan. The Ritz-Carlton Beijing and JW Marriott Beijing each have a "Hastens suite", where the wealthy can experience the feeling of sleeping on RMB.

▲Hastens, Sweden's top-quality bed

▲One million piled up should be bigger than this bed

I bought the same mattress but I can't sleep as well as I did then.

What is missing is this comfort layer

Hotel beds have another little trick, which is the comfort layer on the mattress, the "Mattress Pad" , also called Topper, which can be understood as what we often call a mattress, but most people don't use this at home. This is one of the reasons why the sleeping feeling of a hotel mattress cannot be restored.

The function of this Mattress Pad is not only to protect the mattress, but also to add another layer of comfort on top of the mattress. The material and thickness can be changed to create different sleeping feelings.

▲Super thick Mattress Pad

The beds of Four Seasons Hotel are also well-known. Since 2015, they have been gradually updated and developed with Simmons around the world. This bed is equipped with three Mattress Pads with different softness and hardness to meet the needs of different guests.

The softest Mattress Pad is usually filled with down, and together with the down quilt, it creates a 360-degree surround wrapping feeling.

▲The secret to a comfortable bed is to have a Mattress Pad

▲A good Mattress Pad will give you a sense of wrapping when you sleep on it

High-count and high-density skin-friendly four-piece set

Although compared with mattresses, the bedding in five-star hotels is slightly inferior. After all, they are washed too frequently, have a short service life, and are consumables. Except for high-end suites, hotel bedding is generally not of the highest quality, but it is still much better than most household bedding.

The standard bedding in high-end hotels is basically pure cotton, with a count of about 80 or 300 threads, which is considered high-end bedding.

The thread count and number of roots are important parameters that affect the touch of bedding. If you want to study it clearly, you can review our previous article on four-piece bedding sets >>> What is the difference between a 50-yuan and 5,000-yuan four-piece set? <<<

Different hotels use slightly different beddings, after all, there are also grades within five-star hotels. I researched several hotels where you can order the same bedding online, and the fabrics and specifications are similar. What surprised me the most was that the bedding of the famous "Heavenly Bed" was not pure cotton, probably because of the comprehensive consideration of durability and cost-effectiveness.

Some hotels will also prepare some personalized bedding for regular guests, such as linen and silk bedding. The most luxurious hotel at present is the "TownHouse Galleria" in Milan , which uses linen and 24K gold to weave the most expensive bedding in the world. The price is 1.5 million RMB.

▲TownHouse Galleria Hotel

Some big-name bedding brands usually also launch hotel models. Although the quality is not the highest within the brand, it is much higher than the general bedding on the market, and the price is not that expensive.

Quilt of choice: down quilt

When it comes to quilts, if high-end hotels have only one choice, it must be down quilts.

Down is the best thermal insulation material. It is also lightweight and durable. It can generally be used for ten to eight years without any problems.

The quality of a down quilt mainly depends on its down content and fluffiness . The warmth-keeping function of down is to accumulate air through the fluffiness of the down itself, reducing the convection between high-temperature air and the outside air. The higher the down content and the fluffier it is, the more hot air there is between the down, the better the thermal insulation performance, and the softer the quilt will be.

▲Fluffy and excellent heat preservation

Compared with duck down, goose down has larger down clusters and better performance. High-end down products generally use goose down. A 1400g goose down quilt needs more than 100 geese's belly down clusters, so the price is not cheap.

A good down quilt, even one for a single person, has a very good wrapping feeling. No matter how you turn over, the quilt stays on your body and no wind gets in.

For example, Hasten's duvet is 90% goose down and 10% goose feathers. Hotels usually also prepare synthetic duvets in case guests are allergic to goose down.

Prepare a lot of pillows

The most obvious difference between a bed in a hotel and one at home is that there are so many pillows!

Generally, high-end hotels will provide at least four pillows . Each guest has different sleeping habits. Side sleepers need high pillows with hard support, and back sleepers need thinner pillows. Pillows that are too high, too low, too soft, too hard, or made of different materials will affect sleep. Some people also like to put pillows under their knees when sleeping to relieve spinal pressure.

For example, the Heavenly Bed comes with 3 pairs of pillows: a pair of down pillows made of 50% high-quality white goose down and 50% white goose feathers, a pair of anti-allergic fiber pillows, and a pair of decorative pillows.

The fillings of pillows are very diverse, generally including cotton, down, latex, buckwheat, fiber tubes, etc. High-end hotels will at least prepare down pillows and chemical fiber pillows.

Soft and fluffy down pillows are generally standard equipment in hotels. Even the most bad-tempered guests may become more gentle when lying on a down pillow. The down content varies, and the softness and hardness also vary, but at least 50% of the pillows are down.

The main function of the fiber pillow is to prevent allergies, but its comfort level is average, and it is usually just a spare tire in hotels.

The popular latex pillows are moderately soft and hard, have good breathability and support, and can rebound quickly. However, latex pillows are a more personal need, and hotels generally do not place them in guest rooms, so you need to call to inquire.

▲Star hotels have a lot of pillows

If you want to recreate the experience of a star hotel, you can also prepare more pillows at home, such as buckwheat pillows, down pillows, and latex pillows, to cope with different sleeping scenarios.

After reading this, you may have discovered that the same things that are found on hotel beds are also available at home, but each link is a little different, and when added together, there is a qualitative difference.

Now you know how to sleep as comfortably as a star-rated hotel at home. Share this article with those around you who always complain about not sleeping well.