We need a new mattress. Anyone have one they really love? As far as I can remember from the last time we needed one, mattress shopping is about the least fun kind of shopping in the universe. Boo-hiss.Having nothing to do with my mattress, I've been a bit of a funk lately. I really don't enjoy feeling down at all so I need to snap myself out of it. Bear with me, I'm sure I'll be back to to normal in a bit.What better way to cheer myself up than with some room revamping? If all goes well, we are going to repaint the shore bedroom a inky dark blue next week! More on that later.Are you sure you want to remove this item from your Recipe Box? Don't have an account? Please log in to your account Never created a password? I've read and accepted the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and confirm I am at least 21 years old. Already have an account? No, thanksI'm already a PureWow fan. Follow PureWow on Pinterest No, thanks I hate pretty things. This Victorian Lady’s Got Game
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eBay’s online nursery bedding store has all the brands you trust, from Carter’s and Aden + Anais to Cotton Cradle. For the best selection of nursery bedding, from nursery sheets to afghans to full sets, shop eBay for nursery bedding online.The monogrammed bathrobes, the bedding and pillows? Hotels are now going far beyond that in offering products to remind guests of their stay or draw them back for another visit.The Amway Hotel Corporation in Michigan serves and sells its own line of salad dressings and salsas. The AKA properties have their own vodka and the Langham Hospitality Group offers its house-blend teas in 28 member hotels around the world.Rohit Verma, a professor at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, said that hotels found these products attractive partly because they were a new source of revenue. “There is a great deal of price pressure on room rates right now,” he said. “Consumers can go to various Web sites to find the lowest prices so the rooms themselves are becoming more like a commodity.”
Selling products is a way to get guests to spend more during their stay.Hotels may also create items that will make a visit more of an “experience,” Professor Verma said, and those products need to be closely tied to the brand image. A luxury hotel may be able to sell bath salts, for example, while a hotel with a healthy-living theme may choose to sell yoga mats. Westin Hotels has been particularly successful with its line of Heavenly branded products, including robes, bedding, lotions and shampoos. Since 1999, according to the company, it has sold more than 100,000 of its Heavenly Bed mattresses, and 250,000 pillows identical to the ones it offers in its hotel rooms. It sells the products through its Web site and partners, including Nordstom, Amazon and Pottery Barn stores. While the product sales have been growing for the industry as a whole over the last five years, it is difficult to determine their success because most brands do not release sales figures.One fan of Westin’s products is Dr. Vincent Casingal of Charlotte, N.C.
When he was training to be a transplant surgeon and living on a budget, a stay at the Westin hotel in Pittsburgh was a luxury, and he promised himself he would one day buy a bed like the one he slept in there. For his 40th birthday recently, his wife, Allyson, bought the mattress, box spring, pillows, sheets and duvet cover from Westin’s line. Brian Povinelli, global brand leader of Westin, said the objective of the Heavenly line of products was to let guests “take a piece of the brand home with them,” so they thought about the hotel after they had checked out. It is important to keep the product line “tightly curated” he said, with the goal of recreating some of the hotel experience at home. The hotel chain recently opened a small store inside the Westin Gaslamp Quarter hotel in San Diego to showcase its home products. Many new Westin Hotels and lobby renovations will include the retail concept, according to the company.Interest in the Westin’s Heavenly products is growing in Asia and Europe, where customers can currently buy items only at the hotels, Mr. Povinelli said.
So Starwood Hotels and Resorts, which owns Westin, is building e-commerce platforms to make it easier for guests to buy those items. Still, Starwood is a multibillion-dollar company, Mr. Povinelli said, so the products do not supply significant revenues. Other hotels recreate different experiences. Guests who loved the smell of the Fullerton Bay Hotel in Singapore can buy a $70 scent diffuser, modeled after the scent wafting through the hotel lobby. Customers at the Plaza Hotel in New York can buy the original guest room doorknobs for $550. The door knobs have been replaced with modern replicas so they can operate with electronic key cards. Some hotels sell specialty foods related to the property. The Merrion Hotel in Dublin created a line including jams and other spreads in response to customer requests to take home items they had sampled in the hotel. At the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, hotel-branded chocolate bars are for sale. The objective is to “stay in our guest’s mind after departure,” said the owner, Andrea Kracht.
In addition, he said, “People automatically combine Switzerland with chocolate and the other way around.”The special items can sometimes make a difference. Ms. Casingal, who bought her husband the Westin bed set, said she loved the bath products and robe at the Loews Miami Beach hotel when she stayed there this January. So when it was time to choose a hotel in New York this summer, she chose Loews again. “The location was good, the price was right and I knew I’d be lounging in that robe,” she said. Laurence S. Geller, the founder and chief executive of Strategic Hotels and Resorts, said that branded bedding, foods or keepsakes did not significantly affect the bottom line at most hotels, so managers needed to think carefully before creating their own products. “It is hard to compete against large consumer companies that have spent billions building their brand image,” Mr. Geller said, “and there is a great deal of overhead to create, distribute and account for any hotel-branded product.”