Have you ever stayed in a hotel where you loved the comforter or pillows so much that you wanted them for your home? We have a couple of tips for buying your hotel's bedding after the jump:
Check with the hotel desk to see if they offer their bedding for sale. We have stayed at a number of places where pillows and comforters are available for sale to guests. If they aren't, a little sleuthing can still lead you to where you can buy the hotel's bedding for yourself:
Check the tag on pillows and comforters for manufacturer information. Look for the large tag that threats "penalty of law" if removed by anyone besides the consumer. It should have the manufacturer name on it, as well as the style name or number of the particular piece. Armed with this information, you can then track down the manufacturer and order the bedding for yourself!
Have you ever purchased bedding for home based on a stay in a hotel? How did you go about doing it?
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Ha! Once when I checked out, I asked the front desk guy if I could take one of the amazing quilts home with me if I paid them $20. He said, "Well...sure."
I really don't think he was allowed to say yes and he may have pocketed the $20, but I've still got that quilt and it's lasted the past five years!
You can always ask who the manufacturer is or if you can purchase one directly from the hotel. If the bedding is that good, the front desk probably gets a lot of requests for that information. If they don't know, the housekeeping manager should as it's their job to reorder bedding if it becomes no longer suitable for use.
Pacific Pillows (http://www.pacificpillows.com/) claims to supply bedding to most of the major hotel chains.
I fell in love with the pillows at the Four Seasons Hotel in Atlanta and ordered them from this site. The prices are pretty good.
The W Hotel chains have amazing beds and they are for sale. I've seen them on Gilt Groupe, but not sure where else it can purchased. Sofitel is another chain where I sleep incredibly well.
My husband and I have gone through so many pillows trying to find one we like. So when we both fell in love with the ones at a hotel in Portland, I tracked them down (on Pacific Pillows) and bought them. The hotel did have sheets and a different type of pillow for sale, but not the pillow we wanted.
Great tips, I will definitely try them at my next stay. I usually really like the bedding at Mariotts, wonder what brands they use?
Thanks!
Liz-CoolProducts
We are currently looking to upgrade from a Queen to a King. My husband says the one we have now is too soft. I say the ones he likes hurt like heck, most of the springs digging into lady parts that he can't understand. Recently we stayed at a hotel and both woke up saying "wow, how did YOU sleep?" Turns out their website has a way to order that exact brand mattress. Firm, but not painfully so. Awesome! :)
no, but i was turned on to fabric shower liners at a hotel. wonderful change.
Not bedding, but I purchased a robe from a hotel in New Orleans by asking at the front desk.
Yes.
Just yesterday, as a matter of fact.
Our car broke down in a rainstorm last February at a highway rest stop (this was Switzerland -- it was a huge Movenpick).
We wound up staying in a local hotel overnight while our car was fixed, and the duvets were pure heaven.
My idea of pure duvet heaven is a somewhat heavy duvet which is very fluffy; in short, the duvets I used to sleep under at my grandmas' (both of 'em). Very difficult to find because now the style is for extremely light and thin duvets. Well, this was IT. Of course I checked the duvet, googled it as soon as I came home, and then emailed the company about having a custom size made. Then I had to find a local retailer to order it for me. Well, then fate struck -- we had to start self-financing our move home, and couldn't pay for it. Finally, this week, my husband's employer coughed up the cash, and we tried to buy it. Unfortunately, the company is going on vacation, and couldn't make our deadlines. But a retailer happened to mention that another duvet company made their duvets -- they are a bed company after all. So, I tracked them down, phoned, sent a pleading email since it wasn't on their website anymore (too heavy and low-end), and they obliged.
Phew! It was quite an adventure getting it, and I became obsessed, but then again, I have been trying to make the perfect bed for the past 22 years, and finally feel I am getting there.
Matteo Home sheets, here I come!
Hilton, Hyatt, Starwood, and Marriott all sell their bedding and usually have catalogs in the room and/or info available on their web sites. Some Nordstrom stores also sell the Westin bedding.
We are madly in love with the mattress that we slept on at the Aloft in Dallas. When we first sat on it we thought "Yikes! Too firm!", but we both had one of the best nights of sleep in a long time. When we buy a new mattress it will be that mattress!
My husband and I stayed at a B&B in Kelso, Scotland and we slept in the MOST COMFORTABLE BED EVERRRR!!! So comfortable, that I decided to peel back all the bedding and the mattress cover to see which kind it was. When we came home, we immediately purchased one for our home. I think a bed and bedding is one of the most rewarding purchases one can make. We spend so 6-8 hours in it a day, it had better be amazing.
We actually slept in a hotel in Sweden which was purposely designed to sell mattresses -- the hotel reception was inside the mattress store. We felt we were floating all night on the mattresses! Still when push came to shove, we went with a VI-Spring and not a Dux.
I stayed at a fancy hotel once and found the secret to its comfiness was putting a duvet under the base sheet- between it and the mattress. This trick can work wonders to fix an uncomfortable mattress- saved me in my uni days from a horrible school supplied mattress.
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