How hotels are helping travellers sleep better
Hotels are likely helping you sleep better when you're on holiday- and you don't even know it.
From painstakingly designing the rooms for optimum slumbers to splashing out on top notch bedding, it's big business for many companies.
One New York City hotel has thought of everything when it came to designing its rooms - dubbing them 'sleep chambers'.
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Equinox Hotel is big on sleep. Supplied
"We have all stayed in a hotel room where there is an annoying blinking light or scratchy linens: Chris Norton, CEO of Equinox Hotel, told 50 World's Best.
"We worked with sleep scientists to design rooms that function as 'sleep chambers', so sleep is built into the hardware."
The hotel boasts a Sleep Spa, natural linen bedding, melatonin-stimulating charcoal lattes, blackout blinds and medical-grade air filtration
Also in New York, one hotel offers beds worth a whopping $70,000.
At RH Guesthouse you can laze on Dutch firm's FreshBed which claims to circulate purified air through the mattress for optimum sleep temperatures.
Experts say that's 16 to 18 degrees Celsius.
According to researchers at Tokohu Fukushi University in Japan, heat – especially humidity – is one of the major disruptors of good sleep.
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London hotel chain Zedwell says its rooms - christened 'cocoons' - are soundproof. Supplied
London hotel chain Zedwell says its rooms - christened 'cocoons' - are soundproof - so no more being woken up by chatter in the corridor.
There are also no telly's or other electronics in them to "improve your sleep quality."
If you want to get really serious about sleep, head to Japan.
Chain Nine Hours has its own lab where you can snooze on a soya-bean shaped Kitamura pillow, and then see how good your sleep was.
The hotel's regular 'capsule' rooms are too small to do much else than sleep, too.
Meanwhile, the party island of Ibiza might not be known as a place visitors generally get much sleep, but Six Senses Ibiza aims to tackle that.
It has in-house sleep specialists who can offer yoga, sound therapy, cryotherapy, meditation and massage.
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Have a luxurious nap at the Four Seasons in Bali. Supplied
Meanwhile, try the Sleep Package at the luxury Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan near Ubud.
Among the indulgent nap-inducing offerings are the $34 afternoon 'air nap', suspended in a silk cocoon in a bamboo pavilion.
You can doze off amid the sounds of nature swelling over the paddy fields as the resort's wellness guru reads the life story of the Buddha.
A little closer to home, the Pullman hotel in Western Sydney offers its guests a 'sleep menu' in-room.
You can order things like different pillows, aromatherapy items, as well as sleep masks and ear plugs.
