Good idea, bad idea, or just plain old idea?

[Rain Man]

Poll coming as soon as I roll around on it to warm it up.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews

Holiday Inn Offers 'Human Bed-Warming Service' to Combat Icy Sheets
Friday, January 22, 2010


Print ShareThisHoliday Inn, operator of over 4,000 hotels worldwide, will begin to offer a free five-minute "human bed-warming service" at its London Kensington hotel throughout next week.

If requested, a willing member of hotel staff will jump in your bed, dressed head to foot in an all-in-one sleeper suit, until your nightly chamber warms up.

Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall described the plan as something like having a "giant hot water bottle in your bed."

Dr Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, said the idea could help people get off to sleep, as cold beds inhibit slumber.

"Holiday Inn's new bed warmers service should help people achieve a good night's sleep especially as it's taking much longer for them to warm up when they come in from the snow."

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

Electric blankets would be better.

It's all part of 'going green'.

Originally Posted by Rain Man

If it was anything other than a spectacularly cute woman, it would be entirely disgusting. It was a spectacularly cute woman, it would be only mildly disgusting.

I think smell would have a lot to do with it, too.


It would definitely be awkward... do you just stand there while they're, uh, working? The timing would have to be just right, especially if they have no plans of sticking around after warming the bed. Do you tip them? Do you tip extra if they provide a 'warmth burst'? Do they leave a survey for you to fill out the next morning?

[Rain Man]

The results are interesting.

18 of 21 wouldn't want a person of the gender they're not attracted to. (2 would view it positively)
17 of 21 wouldn't want an ugly person of the gender they're attracted to. (1 would view it positively)
15 of 21 wouldn't want an average person of the gender they're attracted to. (4 would view it positively)
7 of 20 wouldn't want an attractive person of the gender they're attracted to. (9 would view it positively)

So there's a market for this, but only if the bed warmer is attractive. Even if she/he is average-looking, it's going to be negative, or at best a niche market. But if she/he is attractive, the public will generally like it.