Anti-snore hotel room will help keep couples together
With egg-box-style foam walls that can absorb loud frequencies and deflect sound waves, eight Crowne Plaza hotels in Europe have just finished a trial on specially designed "snore absorption rooms."
The hotels are now collecting feedback from users and haven't announced when the rooms will be available for formal booking, according to the Crowne Plaza Hotel reservation counter.
In addition to the sound-snaring walls, the head board has also been designed to reduce the noise emitted by fog-horn sleepers.
Other highlights include an anti-snoring pillow powered by "rare neodymium magnets" and a bed wedge that stops sleepers from lying flat on their backs, which "makes the base of the tongue and soft palate collapse to the back wall of the throat which causes snoring", according to the Crowne Plaza hotel.
The rooms came out as a result of research in the United Kingdom, which found that three out of 10 couples come close to splitting up because of snoring. It also suggested that more than 50 percent of couples lose between one and five hours sleep a night due to the snoring of their partners.
Five proven technologies the "snore absorption rooms" use:
- Sound proofing on walls to absorb the loud frequencies, deflect the sound waves and minimize the impact of snoring.
- A specially designed sound-absorbing head board.
- An anti-snoring bed wedge which acts as a body pillow, encouraging snoring guests to sleep on their sides or upright instead of lying flat.
- An anti-snoring pillow which uses rare neodymium magnets to create a natural magnetic field, opening the airways and stiffening the upper palate which vibrates during snoring.
- A white noise machine which is proven to help drown out the droning snoring noise and help sleep and relaxation.
