Wishing you Happiness & Prosperity (and a good nights sleep in a comfortable bed!) in the Chinese New Year of the Snake

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Please remember that we offer large discounts on our published mattress prices to Guest Houses and Hotels throughout Thailand!

Please contact us for prices.

Add an extra touch of luxury to your new mattress with a single or double sided pillow top. Foam, Latex & Memory Foam are all available at a small extra cost. As you can see below I am not a big fan of memory foam in mattresses, however if you want it we'll supply it! We are based in Phuket but deliver mattresses free throughout Thailand. Please contact us for details.

On behalf of Hugs Mattresses I have been researching Memory Foam and must say, I am a little disappointed.

It seems that memory foam mattresses, whilst very comfortable, do have issues.

The main problem is that they don't seem to last very long, well at least not without having dents & body impressions.

In fact the warranty offered by most manufacturers EXCLUDES body impressions in the mattress deeper than 1.5 inches (38 mm) as that is not considered to be a defect, even the most recognized brand excludes indentations of more than 0.75 inches (19 mm).

I think any customer will consider an indentation of this size to be a defect and I agree with them

The other problem with polyurethane (memory) foam mattresses is that over time they can soften quite markedly, again a point confirmed in their warranties which exclude what they refer to as 'normal' softening. The only thing normal about it is that it is a problem that plastic foam inherently has.

Needless to say customers are not told about this!

For these reasons Hugs Thailand has decided not to stock memory foam mattresses at the moment.

Latex mattresses seem to have similar advantages and properties as memory foam, without these problems and we are now looking at them as an alternative. It is something that we can get locally in Phuket and is natural too.

I'll post more news when I can.

Sleep well.

Hugs

Returning to a post I made a few weeks ago about dream control. 

I said I would try it and post about how I am getting on.

Well, surprisingly enough, I have had some success.

I dream a lot when I am asleep on our beautiful hugs mattress here in Phuket and, though I haven't been able to do control them 100% I can do certain things some of the time. For example if I am dreaming I am going somewhere and there is a delay of some sort, or I am stuck in traffic I just think to myself, no problem this is just a dream and I make the traffic disappear or I just go straight to my destination.

It's not much yet, but it's certainly a start, and for a sceptic like me quite eye opening, if you'll please excuse the pun!

Good night & sweet dreams from Phuket, Thailand.

The word 'mattress' comes from Arabic. In Arabic 'matrah' means 'mat, cushion' or to 'throw down’. In the crusading wars of the 11th & 12th centuries European soldiers began copying their Arab counterparts by sleeping on cushions on the floor.

On their return home the use of the word 'materas' became widespread and entered the English language.

The first mattress would have probably been a stone, perhaps covered with an animal skin to insulate the sleeper and keep them warm. Later beds were raised in an attempt to avoid dirt and pests and the animal skin would have covered leaves grass or straw.

The Romans used hay, wool and even feathers, in addition to pine needles, reeds and leaves; again with animal skins as insulation. This sort of mattress would have been considered the height of luxury right through until renaissance times when the first 'ticking' using silk and velvet was produced. This innovation made for some sumptuous and extravagant bedrooms - for those with the wealth to afford them. Despite their luxurious appearance however, the mattress would still have been home to many unwelcome friends - in the form of different types of bugs, spiders etc.

In the 16th & 17th centuries mattresses were stuffed with straw or down and rested on timber frame supports of rope and leather. By the middle of the 18th century covers began to use cotton or linen and the mattress itself was filled with such natural fibres as horsehair, coconut fibre and more cotton and linen. The filling was attached to the cover by buttoning or tufting and has stitched edges.

Towards the end of the 19th century 'box spring' mattresses were invented which spread the weight more effectively, curiously, though the patent was filed in 1865, history doesn't record the name of the inventor. At around this time iron and steel replaced timber as the preferred material for the bed frame.

Box sprung mattresses were not widely used until the 1930's and 'pocket springs' (which are basically individual springs sewn into bags which are, in turn, sewn together) were introduced around this time too. A little earlier the Dunlop Company found a way to produce rubber latex, vulcanized, foam; the mattresses it manufactured with this foam were initially reserved exclusively for British royalty. They still use similar foams today though now they are a little more freely available!

In the 1940's air mattresses were introduced and in the 1960's waterbeds became fairly popular, particularly in the USA.

So called 'memory foam' was invented by NASA in the 1970's as something light weight for astronauts to use on the long space flights they then planned, it was introduced to the mass market in the 1990's.

I wonder what will be the next 'big thing'? 

เทอร์เรน คอนราด ฮิลตัน(เจ้าของโรงแรม Hilton) ได้กล่าวไว้ว่า “สูตรลับแห่งความสำเร็จของโรงแรม คือ น้ำร้อน ห้องสะอาด และ ความนุ่มสบายของที่นอน”

บริษัท Hugs Thailand ไม่สามารถช่วยคุณเรื่องน้ำร้อนหรือทำความสะอาดห้องพักของคุณได้ แต่เราสามารถช่วยให้คุณมั่นใจได้เลยว่าแขกของคุณจะมีความรู้สึกผ่อนคลาย นุ่มสบาย หากคุณเลือกใช้ที่นอนของเรา

เราเป็นตัวแทนจำหน่ายที่นอน และ ขายออนไลน์ สำหรับโรงแรมและ เกสต์เฮาส์ ในภูเก็ต ที่นอนของเราทั้งหมดเป็นที่นอนกันไฟ(ไม่ลามไฟ) ขายในราคาส่ง สั่งตรงจากโรงงาน

ที่นอนของเราโดยส่วนใหญ่เป็นที่นิยมใช้กันสำหรับโรงแรมระดับ 4-5 ดาวในประเทศไทย และมั่นใจได้เลยว่าหากเลือกใช้ที่นอนของเรา แขกของคุณจะหลับสบายตลอดทั้งคืน

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In Thailand the dreams of your wife/gf can get you in trouble.

I have a friend who's wife didn't speak to him for 2 days on account of something she had dreamt he did, not something he had actually done, just something she had dreamt he had!

The girls also use things they have supposedly dreamed about as a method of bringing things up that they want to talk about such as 'I had a dream that you went with another girl' or 'I dreamt we went to see my parents/got married'.

They also believe that dreams of lottery numbers are prescient and worth following.

On another note just wanted to remind Guest House and Hotel owners throughout Thailand that we offer large discounts on Mattress purchases and free delivery.

Sweet dreams. 

I'm into online gambling.

I've just bought a used mattress on Ebay.

Woke up today with a bad back.

I think my memory-foam mattress has short term memory loss.

Or maybe I should say an 'old' mattress joke 

Shakey went to a psychiatrist.

"Doc," he said, "I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under. "You gotta help me, I'm going crazy!"

"Just put yourself in my hands for two years," said the shrink. "Come to me three times a week, and I'll cure your fears."

"How much do you charge?"

"A hundred dollars per visit."

"I'll sleep on it," said Shakey.

Six months later the doctor met Shakey on the street. "Why didn't you ever come to see me again?" asked the psychiatrist.

"For a hundred buck's a visit? A bartender cured me for ten dollars."

"Is that so! How?"

"He told me to cut the legs off the bed!

Sleep Tight...