Meetings & Conventions: Short Cuts February 2003
February 2003
Short Cuts:
Pillow Mints Give Way to Hot-Water Bottles
Hotel Heats Up the Sheets
Instead of a mint on their pillows, guests at the luxury
213-suite Clayton on the Park in St. Louis will find an
old-fashioned prescription for sweet dreams a hot-water bottle.
The property’s general manager, Micarl Hill, who hates “boring,
predictable hotels,” ordered the water bottles from Martha Stewart
Living magazine and prevailed upon his mother-in-law to sew the
flannel covers, which come in three different patterns. The
finishing touch is a card wishing guests pleasant dreams.
“Nobody was eating the mints,” says Hill, who is proud to note
that he came up with the idea for the sheet-warming bottles. “It’s
just another homey touch we feel our guests will enjoy, because,
unless they steal the towels, they only leave with a memory” and,
of course, a bill.
• JONATHAN VATNER
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