I find it harder to sleep in hotel rooms these days

[Someguywhodoesntlikeyou]

Just the insomnia acting up but maybe it’s because I’m getting older (50 last September) I find it harder to sleep in hotel rooms on business.

Use to be I could take a shower, pour a scotch and watch Sportscenter and conk out. Now I just scroll on my phone because I just get restless with my thoughts and can’t sleep well into the next day.

A lot of the times it’s because I miss my wife and kids. I already got one out of the house and graduated college. Two more now in high school and my oldest daughter will be off to college in five months to Michigan. I feel like I’m missing the last bits of fatherhood on these nights I guess.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m just crazy and turning into an old man with the world moving too fast. Probably should drink more Scotch.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Just the insomnia acting up but maybe it’s because I’m getting older (50 last September) I find it harder to sleep in hotel rooms on business.

Use to be I could take a shower, pour a scotch and watch Sportscenter and conk out. Now I just scroll on my phone because I just get restless with my thoughts and can’t sleep well into the next day.

A lot of the times it’s because I miss my wife and kids. I already got one out of the house and graduated college. Two more now in high school and my oldest daughter will be off to college in five months to Michigan. I feel like I’m missing the last bits of fatherhood on these nights I guess.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m just crazy and turning into an old man with the world moving too fast. Probably should drink more Scotch.

I suffer from poor to no sleep in hotels. One exception is if I can open a window and get fresh air. Fairfield Inn had windows that opened. There is something about a room with no fresh air in forever that I can't stand.

 

[cole854]

Business trips, same issues as the OP. Also, a reoccurring fear of someone trying to enter my room at night.

Vacations, whether it be at a beach house or the Wynn in LV, I sleep like Rip Van Winkle.

 

[BC_Wader]

I think it's just natural when we get older to have those feelings. I think when folks hit their 50's they start to realize that a lot of the sacrifices from earlier years don't mean as much as they used to. I think we feel the clock ticking in some ways and it becomes somewhat of a race to reconnect with much simpler times. I'm at that place right now. I'll be 54 in a few days and, at least on my end, I'm trying to keep it as young inside as I can. I try to not get caught up in the rat race of life. And that race has gotten much faster. I feel like a relic stuck in simpler times and a slower pace but it's getting harder by the year to live like that. Just gotta keep moving on my way as best I can and try to keep the way the world is today as distant as I possibly can.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

You can’t sleep because you’re thinking about all the things that happened in that bed before you got there

 

[jcrow10]

Maybe smoke a joint or two and enjoy the solitude while you ponder the meaning of life.

 

[SWFLwildcat06]

Yea smoke/ingest some indica instead of the scotch, or both. Nity nite

 

[BankerCat12]

For me its due to the pillows. Was just in Scottsdale at Fairmont Princess and their pillows are crap. So thin. When we travel as a family I almost always stay at Marriotts due to card/points. They are hit or miss with their pillows. Also good air flow like some have said above. I prefer fresh but thats hard to get in a hotel. I just want to cool air coming into the room.

 

[AmericanDragon]

I rarely ever have slept well in hotels. One of the major reasons why I rarely ever do overnight travel anymore. I just don’t sleep well outside of my own bed.

When I first moved out from my parents, i bought a new bed as my parents were just going to keep my room a bedroom. It took me a while to be able to sleep well in the new bed. Even though it was my bed, it was not MY bed yet, if you get what I mean.

 

[FirewithFire]

Last time I stayed in a hotel was UK graduation night. Guess who booked rooms at the hotel?

I'm a light sleeper anyway so between people in the halls yelling, doors slamming all night, kids running around screaming like they are at the local park, and stress of travel, me sleeping is difficult. Then I get pissed. Then sleep is not happening at all.

I also hate the way most rooms smell.

 

[Blueblood1975]

For me its due to the pillows. Was just in Scottsdale at Fairmont Princess and their pillows are crap. So thin. When we travel as a family I almost always stay at Marriotts due to card/points. They are hit or miss with their pillows. Also good air flow like some have said above. I prefer fresh but thats hard to get in a hotel. I just want to cool air coming into the room.

For me it's the pillows. It seems like they've gotten worse over the last 10 years. They're so flat and you feel like you just laying on the bed with no head support.

 

[justa]

I have about 6 conferences per year that I attend and they are spread out pretty evenly. Usually 3-4 nights. First 2 nights I sleep like a baby with no wife. kids, or dogs running around. Nice little peaceful break, but by the 3rd night I'm ready to get the hell out of the room and back home to the chaos.

Luckily most of these in are decent places, already been to NOLA and Charleston last 2 months and have San Antonio, Vegas (not my jam but I can stock up), and Miami coming up. My industry is pretty tight so it helps to have peeps around you are familiar with, plus my vendors treat me very well with food and drink.