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How to Sleep Well Away from Home
After getting stuck too many times with the lousy bedroom when vacationing with married friends, I’ve since learned how to negotiate a good sleeping spot before I agree to go away. On a recent trip to Napa, my gracious hosts set me up in a quiet place in the back of the house with a Queen-sized mattress and view of the vineyards, while a couple who’ve been together for decades got the room with the twin beds.
Slumber by Beth Hoeckel
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How nice that they considered your sleeping needs! I hate being sort of shuffled to the back of the queue because there’s only one of me! I wonder if the couple actually liked having a change with separate beds?
Kit, I wondered that too.
Could you say more, Wendy, about how those negotiations go? I’m interested to learn your secrets to landing a good sleeping spot. Did your hosts take the initiative? Do you outline conditions under which you’ll go? Or….?
I don’t wait for hosts to take the initiative on sleeping arrangements. This is something I’m particular about and vocal about. And please understand, I don’t do this to be petulant, but because it’s no vacation for me to be sleeping on the couch. And at this point, my friends understand that if I don’t get a decent bedroom, I’m probably not going to come along for the ride.
Victory! I like the way you negotiated.
Victory is sweet, and I slept better, too.
I just returned from a trip out to Washington state. I stayed at a lodge situated very near a waterfall and I got a room where I could pop the windows open for natural air conditioning and hear the water cascade over the falls. It was the sweetest lullaby I have heard in a long time. And of course I look forward to my next trip there!
It sounds blissful. The sweet hum…