1. Four Seasons Bed Four Seasons’ fully customizable bed was developed in partnership with Simmons Bedding Company. The Four Seasons Bed mattresses feature GelTouch Foam Center heat-absorption technology that keeps you cool and comfortable throughout the night. As well, the bed has pocketed coil motion separation that minimizes disturbance when you or your partner moves around. Additionally, you can choose from three different mattress tops that vary in levels of firmness: Signature, Signature Firm, or Signature Plush. The beds are currently being rolled out across hotels in the U.S.A., but you can have a sublimely comfortable sleep in your own home by buying your own. These beds are never sold in stores so you need to purchase from a hotel directly. A set (including mattress, box spring and topper) starts at $2,199 for a twin. 2. Westin Heavenly Bed The aptly named Westin Heavenly Bed is renowned among jetsetters for its ability to create a divine, restful sleep anywhere in the world.
The plush pillow-top mattress eases you into a deep sleep, while pocketed coils minimize movement and disturbance from bedmates. The Heavenly Bed is widely available, on sale at Nordstrom and Pottery Barn, as well as through Westin’s own website. Prices start at $1,368 for a twin mattress with box spring and bed frame. To really create the heavenly experience, and fresh scent, of a Westin bedroom, we recommend adding a signature White Tea candle ($36) to your shopping cart. The French luxury hotel chain has 120 hotels in 40 countries across the world, but if you can’t spend every night in a Sofitel hotel, you can, at least, rest in a signature Sofitel SoBed. Custom designed for the hotel chain, the soft SoBed’s innerspring ensures support and diminishes movement. You will, Sofitel confidently claims, “awake each day with a natural joie de vivre.” While we can’t quite guarantee your morning mood, we do concur this is a stellar bed. A twin set with mattress, box spring, and bed frame starts at $1,524.
4. W Hotels Bed If you want the W Hotel bed experience without the over-the-top scene-y W Hotel experience, you’ll just have to buy your own. Created by Simmons especially for W Hotels, you can choose from a plush top mattress with firm support that creates a solid foundation eliminating tossing and turning, or a softer pillow top mattress, which, W Hotels claim, “some guests describe as sleeping on a cloud.” Price starts at $1,399 for a twin including box spring and frame, or $2,776 for a queen set that comes with sheets, duvet, and four pillows. Truly the king of hotel beds, the Duxiana brand even has entire hotels in Sweden and China built around its luxe beds. A DUX bed is a sure sign of a great hotel and luxury hotels that can lay claim to this amenity include Burj Al Arab Jumeirah in Dubai and The Quin in New York City. The beds, which are engineered to alleviate back pain and promote good sleeping posture, feature the Pascal system of interchangeable spring cassettes, allowing you to customize your side of the bed.
The company even claims that sleeping in their beds gives you an additional hour of deep sleep. Duxiana stores are located throughout the U.S. and prices for a DUX bed range from $3,700 to $12,000. Wanderlusting for more great travel news and ideas? Follow Jet Set on Facebook. Jet Set is Bravo's launch pad for the most extravagant, luxurious, and unforgettable travel experiences. Then Like us on Facebook to stay connected to our daily updates.Please note that I receive compensation for many links on this blog. American Express and other banks are advertising partners of this site. Read my Advertiser Disclosure policy to learn more. It doesn’t matter how great the breakfast was, how convenient the location turned out to be or if you got extra chocolates at turn-down. Probably half of your time in a hotel is spent in bed and if your bed isn’t comfortable you’ll probably think your stay was terrible. Studies consistently show that travelers say a comfortable bed is the most important feature of a hotel room, even more sought after than fast Wifi.
Hotel beds and arrangements have come a long way. In Everyday Life in the 1800’s, it is said that “even travelers barely acquainted with one another slept together at roadside inns.” If there were a bunch of people, men were put in one room and women in another. Mattresses were stuffed with straw, feathers for the wealthy, and even at home there could be up to 5 children or 3 adults sharing a bed (husbands and wives usually had one to themselves). The middle spot in the bed was the most honorable one to occupy, presumably because you stayed warmer and had less of a chance of falling off. In the early 1900’s a hotel staff member would manually shake the bed while guests lay there. Doctors felt that a shaking bed was a remedy for many health woes. Fast forward to 1958 when the Englander Mattress Company introduced an expensive mechanical vibrating mattress that shook all by itself. John Houghtaling came up with a much cheaper option that just needed the addition of a small motor about the size of a bottle of water.
The contraption was called the “Magic Fingers”, and it quickly became popular among hoteliers because it could be used with existing mattresses. Guests dropped a quarter in an attached box and the small motor underneath shook the bed. In the mid-1960’s hotel chains removed the devices (starting with Best Western) after they became the brunt of many a late-night tv joke associated with sleaze. Although today there are still reports of vibrating beds, they have disappeared from hotels altogether. Nowadays, hotels boast about their ultra-comfortable beds. Gazillion thread sheets or poly/cotton blend, super white and crisp linens and fluffy pillows. There are even pillow menus. Did you know just about every chain hotel lets you order a version of their guest room beds online? It can be very difficult to exactly duplicate that sumptuous bed you slept in the last time you were in a hotel though. Hotels want you to return and rave about how luxuriously comfortable the bed is.
If it is easy to duplicate then perhaps the excitement of the stay is lessened just a tiny bit. Some hotels like Westin and Four Seasons sell a mattress with a pillow top, but the version they use in the hotels has a zip-off pillow top. Not a big difference, but a tiny reason why the bed you end up buying might not feel exactly the same. Some hotels also sell the mattress but not the pillowcases and sheets or the duvet so you have to mix and match yourself. Before beds are made up in high end hotels, the sheets often go through an ironing machine first too which helps give the material a velvety crisp feel. See the barely noticeable folds? I’d be willing to bet that these sheets were ironed. Hotels are pleased when you love their beds. I heard somewhere once that you spend 99% of your life either in shoes or bed so you shouldn’t skimp on either. Here’s a list of where you can buy your favorite hotel bed with an average mattress price of $1500 and total cost of $3500.
That’s surprisingly reasonable, and there are usually sales too. Here’s where you can buyHyatt’s Grand Bed and Grand Bed II. I love that Hyatt even gives you a rundown on exactly how to make your Hyatt Grand Bed at home. Here are some more links for buying your very own hotel bed – Sheraton’s Sweet Sleeper Bed The W Hotel Bed DoubleTree’s The Sweet Dreams Bed While the Four Seasons doesn’t sell their beds directly, you can find similar models here. The manufacturer also provides mattresses to some St Regis, Le Meridien and The Peninsula properties. If you want to go direct to the manufacturer, some hotels buy their mattresses from Serta, Sealy and Simmons. Here’s just a small list from Serta’s website of those that use their mattresses – Accorhotels, Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, Best Western, Cal-A-Vie Resort & Health Spa, Embassy Suites, Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa, InterContinental Hotels, Holiday Inn, La Quinta, MGM, Omni Hotels.