My Sleep Number Is (e)(pi)(i)
Aug. 17th, 2011 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsBut what is most distressing at the Radisson Hotes are the beds. They're Sleep Number beds, and they suck. Radisson has a deal with them so that Sleep Number can pimp their beds at the hotels, and the hotel gets their bedding at a discount.
The beds work by having a segmented air bladder between the relatively thin mattress and the box spring. The bladder helps redistribute weight and control how much give the mattress has. The flexible segmentation zones of the bladder give it a water-bed like feel at "low" settings, and a solid mattress-like feel at "high" settings.
I don't know if it's because they're hotel beds and have been abused, but these are hard to get working right. They seem to stop and start at random. They deflate a little every day.
But worse, they're just damned uncomfortable. At the low setting, it's like sleeping on a lumpy jello-filled waterbed, and given our difficulties with getting the compressor working, we were forced to sleep like that. Later, we had more luck, and got it up to a solid feel, but it's still annoying. Worse, the mattress and the bladder are combined in a single unit, so the frame of the top piece is a solid metal bar you bump up against in the night.
Most of all, I just don't see the point. Sorry, Garrison Keillor. Once you know what firmness of mattress you like, just go buy one of those. If you have a set preference, you're going to set it and forget it. Why spend double of an ordinary bed, or more, for the one-time experience of going through days of back pain until you find the solidity you like?
The beds work by having a segmented air bladder between the relatively thin mattress and the box spring. The bladder helps redistribute weight and control how much give the mattress has. The flexible segmentation zones of the bladder give it a water-bed like feel at "low" settings, and a solid mattress-like feel at "high" settings.
I don't know if it's because they're hotel beds and have been abused, but these are hard to get working right. They seem to stop and start at random. They deflate a little every day.
But worse, they're just damned uncomfortable. At the low setting, it's like sleeping on a lumpy jello-filled waterbed, and given our difficulties with getting the compressor working, we were forced to sleep like that. Later, we had more luck, and got it up to a solid feel, but it's still annoying. Worse, the mattress and the bladder are combined in a single unit, so the frame of the top piece is a solid metal bar you bump up against in the night.
Most of all, I just don't see the point. Sorry, Garrison Keillor. Once you know what firmness of mattress you like, just go buy one of those. If you have a set preference, you're going to set it and forget it. Why spend double of an ordinary bed, or more, for the one-time experience of going through days of back pain until you find the solidity you like?
