Holiday Inn has decided to launch a novel bed warming service to its customers in the U.K. The idea is extremely simple and involves a member of staff jumping into your bed and warming it up for you. The Holiday Inn human bed warmer will be dressed from head to toe in an all in one body suit and will stay in your bed until it is nice and warm. The service is gratis and as of next week will be offered to customers staying at the Kensington Holiday Inn in London.
The human bed warmers may well be in popular demand as weather forecasters predict a continuation of freezing temperatures, ice and snow. Jane Bednall, a spokeswoman for the hotel chain said that having a member of staff hop into a customer’s bed for a few minutes was a bit like having an enormous hot water bottle.
Director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, Dr. Chris Idzikowski suggests that there is more to the new Holiday Inn’s human bed warming service than just being a fun gimmick. He explains that getting in to a cold bed can actually inhibit a person’s ability to get to sleep. He points out that if the bed a person is getting into is already at body temperature then the process that allows our bodies to slip into a slumber will begin more quickly. He said that the service would be particularly useful right now when people’s bodies would be taking longer to warm up because of the freezing temperatures outside.
