While many motels brag about their eating places and facilities, New York’s Benjamin Hotel is all about ensuring friends get an excellent evening sleep. After all, is not that what a lodge room is for?
The Benjamin even works with its personal sleep professional—Dr. Rebecca Robbins, a sleep researcher at NYU’s Center for Healthful Behavior Change. “When we’re sleeping in a hotel, our prefrontal cortexes are more active than at home,” Robbins tells Newsweek. “We’re oriented to be on high alert in a new environment. So it’s really important for hotels to pay more attention to ensuring their guests get good sleep.”
She labored with the lodge on all the pieces from the blackout curtains (to dam out avenue lights) to triple-paned home windows (to maintain out noise). Guests can select from a pillow menu with ten completely different choices, relying on whether or not you sleep on again, facet or abdomen.
There’s additionally a “Power Nap Kit”—an eye fixed masks, ear plugs and tip sheep that is delivered to you room with aromatherapy oils. But should you’re too wound as much as sleep, a meditation cushion may be despatched as much as your room, and guided meditation piped by your cellphone’s audio system. You may even order decaffeinated tea or a snack from the Bedtime Bites menu, ready by chef Geoffrey Zakarian’s culinary group on the National. “A small meal, about 90 calories, an hour or so before bed can hold off hunger till morning,” says Robbins.
For kids, the Benjamin’s Winks Kidzzz Club offers kid-sized robes and kids’s books for bedtime tales.
And whereas there is not any scientific proof it really works, Robbins says you possibly can all the time order a glass of heat milk from room service. “Hey, if mom did it for you growing up that might be what does the trick.”
During Sleep Awareness Week, March 10 to fifteen, the Benjamin Hotel is providing a Rest & Renew Package together with a $30 credit score towards the Bedtime Bites menu and a “Work-Down Call,” to reminds you to energy down electronics and put together for mattress. Enter the Sleep Awareness Week sweepstakes for an opportunity to win the pillow of your selection or a free weekend keep.