Why You Sleep Like a Log in Hotels but Terribly at Home

After more than 20 years of travel, Charles and I have slept in pretty much every kind of place you can imagine. We’ve stayed in hundreds of hotels, hostels, huts, Airbnbs and rental apartments, plus our fair share of cars, tents, vans, RVs, and other places that probably stretched the definition of accommodation.We’ve slept in hotel rooms all over the world, from Colombia to Canada to Cambodia, in everything from basic budget rooms to gorgeous $1000 a night resorts where someone magically apparates to fluff your pillow when you aren’t looking.And somewhere along the way, we started noticing something funny.Sometimes we sleep ridiculously well in hotels.You know the kind of sleep. You crawl into bed after a long travel day, disappear for eight hours and wake up wondering why you can’t sleep like that at home.Of course, plenty of hotel beds have been terrible too. We have stories. But when a hotel gets sleep right, there are usually a few reasons why. Better yet, most of them are surprisingly easy to recreate at home.You Leave a Lot of Your Everyday Stress BehindOne of the biggest differences has very little to do with the bed itself.At home, your bedroom exists right in the middle ...