{"id":640662,"date":"2010-01-23T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001234"},"modified":"2010-01-23T04:39:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T09:39:51","slug":"hotel-employs-professional-snugglers-to-pre-warm-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/640662","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Employs Professional Snugglers To Pre-Warm Beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/2724803437_030a4f42d0_m-thumb-240x180-36284.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a job in the hospitality industry and have highly refined snuggling skills, some Holiday Inns in Britain might have just the job for you. They&#8217;re offering guests the opportunity to have their beds pre-warmed by a member of the hotel staff. Yes, a hotel employee will climb into your bed wearing fleece pajamas, stay there until the bed reaches a temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and then go away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Holiday Inn are promoting the service with the help of sleep-expert Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Center, who said the idea could help people sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the beginning of the night when body temperature starts to drop,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A warm bed &#8211; approximately 20 to 24 Celsius &#8211; is a good way to start this process whereas a cold bed would inhibit sleep.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Far more environmentally sound than an electric blanket or hot water bottle. Why, think of all the perfectly good body heat going to waste <em>right now!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, despite the post illustration, animals are not available for this service. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20100121\/od_nm\/us_hotels_bedwarmers\">Human &#8220;bed-warmers&#8221; at Holiday Inn<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a job in the hospitality industry and have highly refined snuggling skills, some Holiday Inns in Britain might have just the job for you. They&#8217;re offering guests the opportunity to have their beds pre-warmed by a member of the hotel staff. Yes, a hotel employee will climb into your bed wearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GFg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}