Well, most of them – the others will be living it up in your fancy restaurants and bars. But to go all out on the embellishments and skimp on beds will cause more than a few customer nightmares. Here are a few tips to get your guests not only nodding off, but nodding approval.
Design
You've emblazoned the walls and windows with beautiful wallpaper and curtains and laid pure wool carpets on the floors. If you've gone to all that trouble the last thing you want to do is ruin it with a plain old mattress plonked on a base. While hotel headboards are not generally part of the bed, they bring even the most basic bed to life. So choose your headboards carefully to ensure they enhance your room design and then choose a bed to match.
Mattresses
Inner spring mattresses are the most common choice in hotels and there's a good reason for that. With a sturdy, yet flexible layer of springs between two solid layers of foam, they provide good support and comfort. Hotel beds also cop rather more punishment than your average bed. Inner spring mattresses will tend to hang in there longer, thus cutting your ongoing replacement costs.
Springs
Springs provide the support under the mattress and come in three common garden varieties – box springs, flat bed springs and metal coil springs. Box springs are generally housed in a frame and covered with firm, but soft padding and are one of the two spring types recommended for hotel use. Flat bed springs, attached lengthwise to a frame, aren't. Metal coil springs are the other preferred option with two layers of springs for excellent support.
Frames
Your bed frame is basically a rectangular structure that your springs and mattresses sit snugly into to stop everything going in different directions during more boisterous guest use. Here your best options are box frame or platform frames. The former is usually a box made of wood and it has one clear advantage. Box frames usually sit directly onto the floor with no awkward nooks and crannies to break the backs of housekeeping come cleaning time.
