New tech savvy room designed to silence snorers

John Blaise
July 21, 2011
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snoring coupleFor anyone who has a partner that snores, or has a snoring problem themselves, you already know how frustrating it can be for those around you or for yourself to have to listen to someone else’s annoying snoring while you’re trying to catch some shut eye.

Of course, the natural remedy for snoring in my books is to drink until you pass out, that way both people sleep comfortably, but should you wake up before the morning, that’s your fault for not partying hard enough- but now you can’t fall back asleep if your partner snores. What to do?

Smothering them with a pillow may work, but it could also kill them. Plugging their nose sometimes works, until they start snoring through their mouths. So what can you do?

Earlier this month, Crowne Plaza trialed the first ever snore absorption room. Snore absorption rooms were also being trialed in nine Crowne Plaza hotels across Europe and the Middle East.

The new room was brought into existence after research revealed that more than half of UK couples are losing between one and five hours sleep a night due to the snoring and snuffling of their partners. That’s up to a decade of lost sleep over a lifetime.

If you’re a snorer and your lady never wants to talk to you in the morning, now you know what she’s thinking.

According to the press release, the research reveals three in ten couples have come close to splitting up because snoring is coming between them. Plus, as high as 50% of UK couples complain their partner’s snoring can ruin their holiday.

The snore absorption room is not only set to cure sleepless nights, but potentially marriages as well. The research reveals three in ten couples have come close to splitting up because snoring is coming between them. If that is what snoring is doing to marriages where people have taken vows to stay together, just think about what it’s doing to your love life if you are a snoring bachelor.

Ever wondered why that young model didn’t call you back after that night in Cabo? If you’re a snorer, chances are she had the worst sleep of her life.

But now technology is becoming available in hotel rooms to help all snorers. The room uses proven technology to help reduce the dreaded, repetitive nasal noise. The technology includes:

• Sound proofing on walls to absorb the loud frequencies, deflect the sound waves and minimise the impact of snoring. The walls use egg box style foam which reduces the noise reverberating in the room

•A specially designed sound absorbing head board that will work together with the sound proof walling to muffle the echo within the room

• An anti-snoring bed wedge which acts as a body pillow, encouraging snoring guests to sleep on their sides or upright. Lying flat on your back makes the base of the tongue and soft palate collapse to the back wall of the throat which causes snoring

• An anti-snoring pillow which uses rare neodymium magnets to create a natural magnetic field, opening the airways and stiffening the upper palate which vibrates during snoring

• A white noise machine which is proven to help drown out the droning snoring noise and help sleep and relaxation

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Tom Rowntree, spokesperson for Crowne Plaza said in the press release: “We’ve all been there. Lying wide awake at three o’clock in the morning burying our head under a pillow to drown out our partner’s snoring. There’s nothing worse than being kept up all night and that’s why we’ve designed this specific snore absorption room to help give our guests a great night’s sleep’.

 

Dr Chris Idzikowski, sleep expert, added: “Snoring is a common problem and whilst it’s thought of as a male problem, women can suffer from it as well. Snoring is made by vibrations of the soft palate and tissue in the mouth, nose and throat. There are lots of things you can do to help control the problem and I’m pleased to see Crowne Plaza trialling a Snore Absorption room to try to reduce the impact of snoring.”

Can’t wait for this technology to become available for the common citizen.

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  • Harry

    I once heard a doctor that snoring has got to do with high-blood pressure and high cholesterol levels. It is usually advised that folks with snoring problems to lower their cholesterol intake.