Originally Posted by
parvezdewan
I am an Indian on a sabbatical from my job as the CEO of India’s ITDC/ Ashok group of hotels, which used to be India’s biggest hotel chain but has now dropped to perhaps no.4. I am posting this article in the hope that you will correct me wherever I am out of date or am factually wrong OR have missed some important point OR if you have examples to illustrate or any information or experiences of any kind.
If you think that I have given irrelevant details, do please point them out. On the other hand if you would like to see more or my research on hotels across the world, I will be happy to post articles on flatscreen TVs in hotels, the cable channels that they offer, ...many more. (I have also started a thread called Hotel loyalty cards/ programmes by posting a very long [and, I hope, comprehensive] article on the subject)
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Mattresses
by Parvez Dewan
Even the ultra-budget Tune Hotels have spring mattresses. Latex and other foam mattresses belong to the mid-20th century. However, a number of hotels have opted for tempurpedic beds (John Rutledge, Sanctum). These are made of a NASA-discovered and Sweden-developed material called tempur. Marriott’s B-list hotels use foam mattresses. East Hamburg gives guests the option of sleeping on waterbeds. The ‘sweet night’ mattresses of Ducs D'Anjou are made of bamboo fibre.
Spring mattresses:The coil count—the number of coils in a king-sized spring mattress—at select hotel chains is 800 (Crowne Plaza, Marriott’s A-list hotels), 848 (Four Seasons, Hilton), 899 (Sheraton), 900 (Westin) and 939 (Ritz-Carlton).
The ‘thickness’ or height of spring-mattresses is 11 inches (Marriott’s A hotels), 11¼ inches (Ritz-Carlton), 11½ inches: (Crowne Plaza [with foam “topper”], Sheraton) ,12½ inches; Hilton [with pillow top], Westin), 13 inches (Hyatt) and 13½ inches (Four Seasons [with pillow top].
Marriott’s B hotels typically have 7 inch mattresses. Its Residence Inn, Courtyard and Fairfield Inn brands have moved from four inches to nine-inch-thick mattresses.
The brands used are Jamison foam (Marriott’s B hotels), Sealy Posturepedic () (Comfort Suites in Tyler Texas, Day's Inn in Leeds Alabama, Hotel St. Francis in Santa Fe, Hyatt, Ritz-Carlton, Sheraton, Westin), Sealy (Four Seasons, Mirage Resort , both custom designed), Serta Perfect Sleeper (Crowne Plaza, Hilton, Marriott’s A list) and Simmons (La Quinta Inn).
The hotels mentioned adopted the above specifications between 2005 and 2010.
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I am pretty certain that the Westin hotels worldwide use a Simmons mattress - the 'Heavenly Bed' is one of their big things and has been for some years.