WOW....
Not so long ago, the services at a Holiday Inn hotel were pretty simple: a swimming pool, a vending machine, and an ice maker just a short walk down the fluorescent-lit hall. Well, times have changed. A lot. Holiday Inn says three of its British hotels, including two in London and one in Manchester, are offering human bed warmers this month to help their guests make it through the night.
Upon request, a willing hotel employee will slip into a one-piece fleece sleep suit and roll around between the sheets for five minutes to help bring the crisp, chilly sheets up to a more comfortable, cozy, 68 degrees. The new service coincides with a cold snap in Britain, and the opening of 3,200 new Holiday Inn hotels worldwide.
The service is being launched with the aid of sleep expert Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, who cites a mountain of scientific evidence showing that cold beds inhibit sleep.
Yet it seems unlikely that the appeal of this endearing new service has anything whatsoever to do with sleep. If that were the case, a hot water bottle or an extra blanket would do just fine.
resource: http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2010/01/22/
human-bed-warmers-appear-in-holiday-inn-hotels-in-britains-no-sex-please-we-are-british/
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