7 Ways to Make Your Guest Room Feel Like a Hotel:- As I was growing up, my father explained our stays at gloomy wayside hotels by saying, “When you’re asleep, it’s exactly the same as the Ritz.” This was his way of justifying our accommodations from time to time. The opposite is true, Dad.
7 Ways to Make Your Guest Room Feel Like a Hotel
Now that I have spent decades working as a travel writer and staying in some of the world’s best hotels, as well as the fact that I own a luxurious short-term rental home in the Colorado mountains with my husband, I am aware that even the smallest details in a guest room can have a significant impact on the level of comfort that your guests experience (yes, even when they are sleeping).
I asked experienced designers, who are all excellent hosts, for their best advice on how to create a hotel-like guest room in your very own house. In addition to my own personal experience, I also asked them for their advice. A word of caution: it’s possible that your houseguests refuse to go.
1. Have WiFi passwords and phone chargers handy
Designer and novelist Charlotte Moss lives by the phrase “Do unto others, as they say.” She welcomes guests into her Upper East Side townhouse on a daily basis and is so giving that acquaintances are frequently greeted with a bedside arrangement of freshly cut roses from her garden. Moss believes that although flowers are optional, having fast internet connectivity is very necessary.
Nothing is worse than arriving late at night knowing you have emails to respond to and no one to provide you with the WiFi code, the speaker claims. Moss hired East Hampton’s Vogel Bindery to create little leather-bound diaries with the WiFi password and other household information in order to permanently address that issue in her own guest rooms—yes, she has several. Of course, you could more quickly and affordably achieve a similar effect by printing your WiFi network and password, frame it, and setting it on the nightstand.
In keeping with that, Enchanted Home founder and designer Tina Yaraghi also keeps an extra phone charger in the wall. “We know people need their electronics to be working, but sometimes people forget [to bring one,” she explains.
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2. Leave plenty of snacks
A little refrigerator hidden within a cabinet that Moss fills with snacks and fruit for her guests is one of her most creative guest room ideas. Moss explains, “I find out what people like, dislike, and are allergic to.” Alternatively, in the event that she is not yet acquainted with the house guest, she opts for crowd-pleasing options, such as “a bottle of white wine, a bottle of red wine, and dried fruit and nuts.”
There are lots of ways to feed and entertain guests even in the absence of a refrigerator. In addition, Moss makes welcoming trays complete with water bottles, goblets, fruit bowls (grapes and figs), candies, and biscuits.
3. Dress the bed in layers — with nice sheets
While the bed linens at our Airbnb feel nice, the ones we use at home are like diving into a cloud of 680 thread count cotton. Designer Catherine Ebert advises against undervaluing the impact of exquisite bedding, particularly if it has been ironed. She also stresses the significance of layering your guest bed because various people have varying body temperatures.
Her method included ironed sheets, a blanket made of cotton or wool (based on the season), a coverlet to give the bed a fitted appearance, and a duvet at the foot of the bed that was folded in thirds. “And don’t cut corners with the pillows either.”
4. Supply reading material
One of Moss’s favourite methods to pamper guests is to provide sufficient lighting on the bedside tables and a selection of books in different genres, such as poetry and hilarious comedies. “I search through my collection, selecting books so they can curl up in their room if they so choose,” she explains. From a desk that is ready, they will be able to send notes with ease as well: “Postcards, notecards, stamps, and something to write with.”
5. Maintain easy caffeine access
If you’ve ever arrived to a friend’s house with weary eyes, frantically looking for the coffee supplies, you know that providing ready access to caffeine is among the most considerate things you can do as a host. Moss arranges a coffee and tea station complete with a kettle, coffee maker, and assortment of teas in each of her guest rooms. “To let you have coffee in the privacy of your guest room without having to look at anybody else” is the stated objective, according to the speaker.
If your arrangement prevents coffee from being served in the room, you can prepare a decadent coffee station in your kitchen that includes your guests’ preferred coffee accessories (creamers, sweeteners, etc.), beautifully crafted mugs, and locally roasted coffee beans. An other benefit is that you may leave directions for how to make the coffee or have it brewed at a time of their choosing.
6. Arrange tiptop toiletries
Make good use of the random little shampoo and lotion bottles you’ve been collecting from hotel trips. Moss suggests keeping a basket filled with everything a guest might forget to bring, including body lotion, shaving cream, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoos, hair dryers, nail files, and even nail polish and remover.
Simply ask yourself, “What would I need?” says Moss. “It might seem like a lot, but it can really affect someone’s level of comfort.”
7. And finally: Let them be
In any luxury hotel, a cloying concierge does not remain long. You must give your friends and family space to relax in order to provide them with genuinely exceptional service. Yaraghi advises “verbalising that they should feel extremely comfortable to go up to their room whenever they want.” Perhaps they would like to catch up on work or have an afternoon snooze.
Even though I know I shouldn’t say it, sometimes it helps to just say it since it puts everyone at rest. In the end, it’s the little things that matter, and I want them to feel as though they had a brief escape when they leave.
