How to Get a Good Night's Sleep
Some Luxury Hotel Packages Focus on Getting Better Sleep on Vacation
Mar 4, 2008
National Sleep Awareness Week is always the first or second week of March. This annual awareness campaign is reflected in annual luxury vacation packages that focus on how to get a good night's sleep. People on vacation often have catching up on sleep as a goal - it seems that many of us have forgotten how to get a good night's sleep. So much so, in fact, that several luxury destinations have travel packages purely to help weary travelers get better sleep.
Select Travel Packages that Help Get a Good Night's Sleep:
Faena Hotel + Universe in Buenes Aires, Argentina - This luxury vacation spa package's sleep program lasts 4 to 5 hours, focusing on traditional spa relaxation techniques. Now, Faena Hotel + Universe is the recipient of multiple Best Hotel types of awards from Conde Naste, Travel & Leisure, and other tourism media outlets. La Prairie Spa is as luxurious as the rest of the hotel (interesting, as Faena is built into an old silo, in what was once an unused storage building). For better sleep, the spa focuses on relaxation: guests start in the Relaxation Room, then spend time in the Sauna and deep hot "Hammam" pool, before moving on to the aromatherapy massage with lavender and melissa oils. This experience is wrapped up with a session of Base Chakra Pranic Healing. After 5 hours of relaxing spa treatments at one of the best hotels in Argentina, a good night's sleep is guaranteed.
Half Moon in Montego Bay, Jamaica - This is one of the two best luxury resorts in Montego Bay (nearby Ritz being the other) and Half Moon really goes above and beyond regarding Sleep Awareness week. The 68,000 sq. ft. resort spa features Spa Elder Stella Grey, who is a pro (over 37 years) at helping tense travelers learn how to get better sleep. Every March, sleep treatments at the enormous Fern Tree Spa include the following:
- Jamaica Bush Bath - a hot, soothing bath relaxes the mind and spirit, using locally grown, freshly picked herbs, fruit, leaves and even delicate roots.
- Reiki - guided meditation and muscle relaxation are the main components of this energy balancing spa treatment.
- Biofeedback - resort guests can "unlearn" muscle tension with a computer program that teaches how to recognize and control stress; biofeedback is an effective way to learn how to prevent tension's effects on getting better sleep.
- Brainwave Entratainment - it sounds weird, but Brainwave Entratainment helps align brainwaves to a certain, peaceful frequency. This helps resort guests learn how to help themselves slip into the relaxed state needed to get a good night's sleep.
ANdAZ Liverpool Street in London, England - The Andaz Bedtime Stories travel package should help tourists who wonder how to get better sleep; every March, Sleep Awareness is celebrated by having a special "bedtime story" reader. Damian Barr is famous in London as a playwright for BBC radio 4, as well as for his regular London Time column. Andaz itself is knows for its casual luxury, much like The Soho Hotel (also in London). Guests who page Mr. Barr will actually get him to come to their rooms, and read a bedtime story of their choosing. He also blogs about the experience every day and offers bibliotherapy in the mornings. Luxury Travel sees this as the most unique travel packages available that help travelers figure out how to get a good night's sleep.
How to get a good night's sleep seems so elementary, but in these hectic, workaday times, simple relaxation is hard to come by. Every March, National Sleep Awareness Week can remind vacation lovers about the importance of catching those Z's. These luxury travel packages focusing on relaxation are a great start. To paraphrase: Merry Vacation to All, and to All a Good Sleep!
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