3 pillows on the bed ?
Jan 12, 2017, 12:49 am
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3 pillows on the bed ?
so I'm at a Novotel in Canada 🇨🇦 for a few weeks. It is a king room, but there are only three pillows on the bed, and it appears to be by design. I don't think I have ever stayed at a hotel with an odd number of pillows on the bed like this. It just seems weird, at night with my companion it is like .., who gets the extra pillow this time ???
Not a problem or anything but I've stayed in probably hundreds of hotels and it is always an even number of pillows. After this I'll probably make a mental note of how many pillows are in hotel rooms ..
Not a problem or anything but I've stayed in probably hundreds of hotels and it is always an even number of pillows. After this I'll probably make a mental note of how many pillows are in hotel rooms ..
Jan 12, 2017, 1:08 am
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so I'm at a Novotel in Canada 🇨🇦 for a few weeks. It is a king room, but there are only three pillows on the bed, and it appears to be by design. I don't think I have ever stayed at a hotel with an odd number of pillows on the bed like this. It just seems weird, at night with my companion it is like .., who gets the extra pillow this time ???
Not a problem or anything but I've stayed in probably hundreds of hotels and it is always an even number of pillows. After this I'll probably make a mental note of how many pillows are in hotel rooms ..
Not a problem or anything but I've stayed in probably hundreds of hotels and it is always an even number of pillows. After this I'll probably make a mental note of how many pillows are in hotel rooms ..
Jan 12, 2017, 5:59 am
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Novotel Canada had a brand standard of four pillows per bed but the cost of providing and maintaining that level of pillowing was becoming excessive so they tested a two-pillow policy at several properties but this 50 percent service cutback led to many complaints and threats from customers to never stay at a Novotel again so they settled on a 25 reduction as a compromise.
I give this theory a 50 percent chance of being accurate.
I give this theory a 50 percent chance of being accurate.
Jan 12, 2017, 6:27 am
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I think I've only encountered 4 or more on the bed - Hilton in particular seems to love giving me 6-8. That being said a phone call to house keeping should solve the problem.
We often end up with only two since we are both allergic to feather - when they don't read the notes beforehand it means calling to request foam pillows and nearly always they only bring 2.
We often end up with only two since we are both allergic to feather - when they don't read the notes beforehand it means calling to request foam pillows and nearly always they only bring 2.
Jan 12, 2017, 6:47 am
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Three standard pillows are the width of a king-size bed. When I shared a king-size bed in a previous lifetime, that's how we made it. Two looked silly, and king-size pillows were too big for comfortable sleeping.
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Jan 12, 2017, 7:11 am
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so I'm at a Novotel in Canada 🇨🇦 for a few weeks. It is a king room, but there are only three pillows on the bed, and it appears to be by design. I don't think I have ever stayed at a hotel with an odd number of pillows on the bed like this. It just seems weird, at night with my companion it is like .., who gets the extra pillow this time ???
Not a problem or anything but I've stayed in probably hundreds of hotels and it is always an even number of pillows. After this I'll probably make a mental note of how many pillows are in hotel rooms ..
Not a problem or anything but I've stayed in probably hundreds of hotels and it is always an even number of pillows. After this I'll probably make a mental note of how many pillows are in hotel rooms ..
Jan 12, 2017, 10:50 am
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OP - if it bothers you to only have 3 pillows, you could either ditch one or request another one to even things out. Or make it a competition over who gets the extra pillow.
Jan 13, 2017, 3:57 am
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Jan 13, 2017, 5:03 am
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Plus you have to think about where to put them. I don't want to put them on the floor since I may end up sleeping on that pillow the next night.
Jan 13, 2017, 5:45 am
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And also, often in hotels they provide enough pillows with feathers inside and enough pillows with fake stuff inside to cater to both tastes.
Jan 13, 2017, 5:46 am
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For some reason Hyatt Place hotels seem to be incapable of understanding "No feather pillows IN THE ROOM" which I add to every reservation. I tend to check in late in the day/mid evening, so I have taken to calling ahead about the pillows as asthma attacks do not enhance my travel experience. They STILL don't replace the feather pillows with foam or remove the dust mite laden feather ones. Most recent stay at Hyatt Place Arlington it took 2 phone calls to get 2 foam pillows and we had 8 d@mn feather pillows taking up half the coach for 4 days. Grrrr.
Jan 14, 2017, 11:27 am
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