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WHAT TRAVELERS LIKE TO DO IN BED

C-Span vs. Adult Entertainment?

by Madelyn Miller

What Keeps Travelers Up and what Puts them To Sleep on the Road

Westin Hotels have studied the sleeping habits of travelers and learned all kinds of interesting things about what travelers really like to do in bed. And to make it more comfortable, they have placed 52,000 new Heavenly BedsTM in their rooms.

So whatever you do decide to do, you can do it in more comfort at at a Westin.

  • When asked what keeps them up at night, 73% of the travelers surveyed say they miss their spouse or significant other and 59% say they worry about what is going on back at the office.

  • Nearly all the travelers surveyed miss something about sleeping at home.� 37% say they miss their spouse or significant other while more than a quarter (26%) say they miss their own bed.

  • Most travelers (51%) would rather sleep in a hotel bed than in a bed at their mother-in-laws house (12%).

  • One in three travelers (33%) say they�ve had an alcoholic beverage to help them fall asleep on the road.

  • Travelers do many different things to fall asleep in a hotel room including read (53%); call their family (47%); draw the curtains or shut the blinds (43%) or leave the TV on (42%).

  • If they wake up in the middle of the night, travelers are most likely to watch TV (30%) or read (23%) to help them fall back asleep.

  • Executives who watch TV in their hotel beds are a pretty serious lot with CNN (79%), national network news (59%) and local network news (51%) being their top tube picks.

  • Perhaps because they depend on TV to put them to sleep, travelers are more likely to watch thunderstorms and filibusters than adult movies in their hotel bed.� 42% of travelers say they watch The Weather Channel in their hotel room, while 17% surf to C-Span and only 11% admit to watching adult movies.

  • Who tucks business travelers in at night?� Most travelers say the last voice they hear before going to sleep in a hotel room is their spouse or significant other (46%).� On a less romantic note, 18% of travelers say goodnight to the wake-up service operator and 6% to the hotel operator.

Any just in case you are curious, where was my first time?

The Westin Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas.

And was it good for me?

It was very good.

How did I compare to the profile?

I said goodnight to the operator, took out a good book, and slept soundly until my wakeup call.

Then I hit the city of San Antonio with renewed vigor the next morning.

The Westin Riverwalk
420 West Market Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
210-224-6500
fax 210-444-6000
http://www.westin.com
800-Westin-1

San Antonio
http://www.sanantoniocvb.com

800-447-3372

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