Hotel Pillows
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It's not exactly going to encourage me to buy them either. I wonder what quality we are supposed to assume hotel pillows have? They can't be implying they are more durable can they? I mean everybody's pillows get slept on don't they?
I was in one of the shops in the arcade today and noticed they sell pillows with a sign on them saying 'Hotel Quality Pillows' . Does that mean they are crap cos most of the hotels I've stayed in the pillows are terrible
how much where they by the way?
Some of the hotels I've stayed in have had some very grim pillows.
I don't mean they were dirty just not very comfortable. They're either hard as rocks or so squishy they go totally flat as soon as you put your head on them. The worst ones I've ever endured were in the Hilton at Manchester airport. They may as well have been filled with candy floss.
no willow that was the sally army.
You should have seen one place we stayed in Bedfordshire! The Sally Army would have been a marked improvement! Needless to say to was not an informed choice and we won't be paying a return visit.
Needless to say to was not an informed choice and we won't be paying a return visit.
Hotel quality means - one on its own is not enough but use 2 and you wake up with a stiff neck. 
Agrred but after spending 6 weeks stuck in a hotel the only mouth gush would have been my own.
Hotel quality means - one on its own is not enough but use 2 and you wake up with a stiff neck.
That describes it perfectly!
Ok ... gonna' bore you stiff on this one, seeing I am probably involved in selling the majority of pillows and hotel linens for the whole of the UK.
The majority buy a hollowfibre 18 oz pillow, a good standard, not too expensive pilllow but reasonable .. a little higher spec. than what you would find in most retail shops. This is probably what the retailer was trying to say. Then there is the 25% who buy the Dacron filled one, a filling manufactured by Du Pont and is lovely and soft and washes well, although two and a half times the price. Very few buy the feathered ones, for fear of allergies, although bought mostly in Scotland Spuggie, as they have more traditional values.
Approximately 75% of hotels do not own their own linen, they are on what is known as linen hire and have a contract with a laundry for providing and washing their sheets, table linen, etc. There is definitely a move to better quality in both sheets and towels, after all, this is what the guests first perceive in their stay, and you are going to find much finer percales on your hotel beds. Percale is when the yarn is finer, but more threads to the inch so gives a much more luxurious feel to the sheet, what you think of as Egyptian cotton I suppose.
I've stayed in 100's of hotels in the UK and B & B's and only been disappointed a couple of times by the quality of their linen and pilllows >> let me know which ones you didn't like and I will contact them. Ok zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I will investigate this retailer you mentioned and see if they are telling the truth ...
If ya' want any, let me know
The majority buy a hollowfibre 18 oz pillow, a good standard, not too expensive pilllow but reasonable .. a little higher spec. than what you would find in most retail shops. This is probably what the retailer was trying to say. Then there is the 25% who buy the Dacron filled one, a filling manufactured by Du Pont and is lovely and soft and washes well, although two and a half times the price. Very few buy the feathered ones, for fear of allergies, although bought mostly in Scotland Spuggie, as they have more traditional values.
Approximately 75% of hotels do not own their own linen, they are on what is known as linen hire and have a contract with a laundry for providing and washing their sheets, table linen, etc. There is definitely a move to better quality in both sheets and towels, after all, this is what the guests first perceive in their stay, and you are going to find much finer percales on your hotel beds. Percale is when the yarn is finer, but more threads to the inch so gives a much more luxurious feel to the sheet, what you think of as Egyptian cotton I suppose.
I've stayed in 100's of hotels in the UK and B & B's and only been disappointed a couple of times by the quality of their linen and pilllows >> let me know which ones you didn't like and I will contact them. Ok zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I will investigate this retailer you mentioned and see if they are telling the truth ...
If ya' want any, let me know
I found the pillows in the Hilton far too squishy.
I was thinking along the lines of 'hotel quality' meaninig they were more hardwearing but why would they need to be? I can understand hotel carpet needing to be hardwearing in the foyer/lobby/corridors with lots more people walking over them but if you think about it with pillows it's only going to be one head per night just the same as anywhere else so only gets the same wear as your pllows at home. So why would they need to be any different?