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The Heavenly Bed at Westin Mumbai Garden City.
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Hoteliers are doing everything in their power to ensure their guests get a good night’s rest. Hotelier India looks at what they’ve got on offer.

Given the frenetic pace of life, a weary traveller staying in a hotel wants to sleep in a bed that is as nice as the one he has at home. And now there’s no reason why he cannot. A good night’s rest requires comfortable bedding.
 

And everyone’s striving to provide better comfort levels in terms of bedding service and pillow facilities to ensure a good night’s sleep for their guests.
 

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The revolutionary ten-layer all-white bed, pioneered by the Westin Hotels worldwide in 1999, is now here in India. In keeping with their commitment to sleep and wellness, the Heavenly Bed is a unique design that ensures the most rejuvenating sleep possible by providing total body support and reducing motion transfer. Thus, sleep is not disturbed by any movement.
 

The Beautyrest Pocketed Coil mattress specially created for the Westin Hotels & Resorts is what sets it apart. Anticipating their guests’ needs and ensuring that exceptional service and luxurious comfort are never out of style, is a Westin tradition.
Explains Lance Ourednik, General Manager, Westin Mumbai Garden City, “The bed in our rooms help to restore the mind and body and ensure that the sleep is an unparalleled experience.
 

The guest wakes up feeling rested, bright and positive. Our guests across the world have shared this feedback with us. Hence, this bed has been universally termed as the Heavenly Bed.”
 

Housekeepers are now emphasising the fact that a bed is the most essential thing in a hotel room and has a direct impact on the customers’ preference for the hotel a second time.
 

However, most of them maintain that as far as the selection of beds and mattresses is concerned, it should firmly support the body contours without sagging to take care of the posture.
 

The basic hotel guest bed consists of a box-spring also referred to as a bed base, of wooden or metal frame covered in cloth, containing springs that sit on the floor and act as a brace.
 

The variety of beds available in the market today is an exercise in choice. From spring and foam to latex beds, water beds, adjustable beds, pocket spring beds, and visco-elastic beds, they have to be dust, mite and allergenic resistant too. This choice extends to mattresses too. Mattress options have changed dramatically in the last decade or so.