Sound-proof Dreams
Hotels now have to pass noise tests with A grades. Which inns will master silence first?
Earplugs under the pillow as a hotel gift are not ‘in’ anymore. If you go for something a bit more expensive than a backpackers hostel now you’re within your rights to demand a sound-proof room (pretty much space ship style). The new ’silent sleep’ trend in American hotels/hotel chains is raising standards all over the country. AmericInn, Kimpton Hotels and Le Parker Meridien New York, to mention some examples, have started the race at a good pace indeed.
In most of the cases, to renovate windows, doors and their frames is not enough. Redesigning every single wall of the building and its components is needed. Every masonry block must be filled with sound-deadening foam (in AmericInn case named and branded SoundGuard), TVs must be placed in separate furniture pieces rather than being mounted on the wall, and electrical sockets should be staggered to prevent unwanted noise from seeping between rooms. Sound muffling strategies of all kind have definitely landed into the list of hotel director’s worries. The “Sound Transmission Class test” seems to be popping in every high-class hotel agenda. Will the grades of this test be the cover letter of a hotel in the near future?
Im still the old-fashioned way, faithful to the earplugs I always forget when packing on my way from pillow to pillow. But it’s certainly worth taking a look to these couple of links: Article “Blessed silence is the new amenity”, Hotel Soundproofing. The sound-proof trend’s gonna give lots to talk about…
Guaranteed: peaceful dreams without echos or surprises. You better think twice about going to bed with a snoring pig!
i think this something , which is cool but not affordable to common man!