My dream job —— paid to sleep in the beds
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I never really knew what type of work I would go back to, or even if it would be related to my current major, so I asked Chatgpt this morning. I said I wanted to find a job where I could sleep in a hotel all day, and unexpectedly, he actually found such a job!
Rhiannon Taylor is a 29-year-old travel photographer from Australia who has turned her photography skills and globe-trotting hobby into a business With the launch of a website called In Bed With.
However, the avid Instagrammer has turned her social media success into a growing company by traveling the world, looking back and photographing the most luxurious accommodations.
Rhiannon has over 12,000 followers on Instagram who love her beautiful travel photos, the places she stays and the food she eats. She found that there was a gap between the top hotels in the market and the reviews, so she wrote about her entire travels around the world, from Indonesia to the United States and Mexico, authentedly documenting all the great hotels she had experienced.
Many hotels pay Rhiannon to stay and review, and they buy professional photos of her. Social media took her site to the world. It’s a new way to show a personal aesthetic, curate an opinion about something, and invite social media users to subscribe to a new career.
In 2020, Luxury linens company Tielle Loves Luxury released a job as a professional bed tester for five star hotels. The luxury linens brand, which supplies linens and accessories to five-star hotels, will pay successful applicants to sleep in some of the country’s best hotels and report on their experiences.
Duties will include napping, enjoying the restaurant and experiencing public areas, according to the job AD. In addition to a free stay at a five-star hotel, you will also receive fees and charges for overnight stays away from home. Successful applicants will be paid £200 a night as well as travel expenses and will be asked to report on several aspects of their accommodation, including the comfort of the bed, the quality of sleep and relaxation factors. The successful applicant will experience the iconic Savoy and more boutique hotels like the Artist’s Residence. They will then be asked to report on guests’ bedsheet experiences in these exclusive environments and make recommendations on how to further improve their night’s sleep.
With the hospitality industry becoming more competitive and guests more than ever expecting an impeccable experience, this role was created by brands after the lockdown. People going for a break or business trip need quality sleep, so their service to the hotel needs to be perfect, so hiring a five-star bed tester will mean they have someone on our team making sure they do that.
I am a person who loves to travel and I love to explore hotels everywhere, so ‘hotel sleep tester’ is really my dream job. A good hotel in addition to the comfort of the room, supporting facilities are also very key, so in fact, the accurate record of a hotel comfort level, from the moment you step into the increase hotel, this is not an easy job.
In addition to experience hotels, I think B&Bs are also on the rise in the past two years. More and more travelers use airbnb instead of staying in hotels. Because most B&Bs are cooked and live in urban areas, they provide a homey feel. Therefore, it is possible that in the future, there will no longer be a single ‘hotel sleep tester’, but more ‘tester’ will be extended, which is an industry with great potential.