Senior Citizens, what have you done when a motel bed was too hard & uncomfortable?
Are senior citizens more sensitive to this? Have you tried adding your own foam topper to a motel bed? How would I pick one out in a nearby foam shop? I'm definitely losing sleep & feeling all achy & sore the next day.
2014-05-26T15:44:45Z
Each of you have added some very good points, & I thank all of you for your answers. Since the room came with 4 pillows + the one that I brought from home, I ended up placing them end to end & sleeping on top of them. I still feel a little old & creaky, but it must be coming from inside of me.
Btw, for those who say to move to another motel, around here in Northern California, by nightfall there's about zero vacancy rate, so that's not really possible.
?2014-05-23T17:35:03Z
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I remember the hardest beds I slept in were in Greece but I was so tired I didn't care. Second hardest bed was on a visit to NYC. I was miserable. It was a girls weekend. We just asked for extra blankets and put those down. I think I ended up laying on my pillow like a body pillow.
I know what I did in a motel when traveling and found that the bathroom window wouldn't lock, I marched back up to the office and demanded my money back. It wasn't the best looking of motels and there were people standing around in the early am. I didn't like the looks of it but I was tired. I had charged the room and they told me I would get a refund on my card but I got no paperwork to that effect. I just figured it was better to be safe. If I can, I look over rooms and most places that look clean and fresh...although they may not be...usually have sorta decent beds. Usually I'm so tired, it takes me no time to fall asleep and I like hard beds...its those soft and worn out ones that bother me. And I did get the money back on that room. What a place! If I am in a better place where I am staying over a period of time, I do say something at the desk and expect a different room if they have one. I've really not had that problem.
The few times I've stayed at a motel the last 15 years or so, it wasn't the bed that bothered me, but the pillows. They were small and very thin. But if I absolutely have to stay in a motel for a night (power outage or something like that) I'm usually so tired by the time I get there I could sleep on a log.
That's why when I travel I avoid Holiday Inn like the plague, all of their beds are hard IMOI, and I wind up having to sleep on the couch, now I don't stay there anymore. Hampton Inn & Courtyard Marriott are the way to go.
I like hard beds, but I would think you could ask the motel manager if they have a room with a soft mattress first before I would go out and buy any types of foams. I would say if you ten to buy one I would check out the memory foams first, they might be costly but they are good.