Crowne Plaza trials “snore absorption room”
Published: 28/06/2011 - Filed under: News »
IHG’s Crowne Plaza brand is trialling a room designed to “minimise the impact of snoring”, with sound proofing walls, sound absorbing head boards and “anti-snoring pillows”.
The room is being trialled at the Crowne Plaza London The City property between June 27 and July 1, and features “proven technology to help reduce the dreaded, repetitive nasal noise” of snoring.
These include egg box style foam on the walls to help absorb loud frequencies, a “specially designed sound absorbing head board”, an “an anti-snoring bed wedge” which encourages guests to sleep on their sides, an anti-snoring pillow which uses “rare neodymium magnets to create a natural magnetic field, opening the airways and stiffening the upper palate which vibrates during snoring”, and a white noise machine which is “proven to help drown out the droning snoring noise and help sleep and relaxation”.
Crowne plaza says that research shows more than half of UK couples are losing between one and five hours sleep a night “due to the snoring and snuffling of their partners”.
It’s not the first time the brand has carried out innovative trials at its properties. Last year Crowne Plaza laid real grass in several of its meetings rooms to help “remind guests of their childhood and therefore free them of societal barriers that restrict creativity” (see online news August 16, 2010), and at its Copenhagen Towers hotel the brand installed electricity-producing bicycles as part of its eco-friendly initiatives at the property (see online news April 14, 2010).
For more information visit ihg.com.
Report by Mark Caswell
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EdParks101 - 29/06/2011 17:19
Does anyone know where I can find out more about the bed wedges? I have found the anti snoring pillow here Be Snore Free
kevin46 - 30/06/2011 13:42
I went to the Be Snore Free Pillow site, but it wouldn't accept my purchase request!
audreyhoward - 26/07/2011 04:21
Thank you for providing this article. The Crowne Plaza hotel chain in the United Kingdom is taking on the problem of loud sleepers. New “snore absorption” rooms are being paired with “snore monitors” charged with keeping the peace. These efforts are intended to help customers sleep better away from home. Please check this out: UK hotel combats loud-snoring sleepers.
Moreover, the Crowne Plaza is focusing on snoring as one of the biggest sources of noise from guests. Having hall monitors waking up snorers may, in the end, cause more noise than the snorers themselves. Snoring is also involuntary, and most snorers suffer from physical issues they are unable to control. Those who have CPAP machines in order to treat sleep apnea (which causes snoring) can be just as loud. Do you think that the focus on snoring is appropriate, or should the Crowne Plaza focus on other causes of noise?
EdParks101 - 07/09/2011 15:10
kevin46 - their site is now up, and I have a voucher code from my order if you want... '15'. Ed
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