Sleep under the stars – in a Travelodge. The budget hotel group has launched “Night Sky” rooms with a 3D-effect cosmic panorama especially created by Lancashire artist Carl Marshall. Shooting stars, milky ways and constellations of twinkling stars have been painted on to the ceilings of rooms across the UK.
During the day, the ceilings look white but in darkness the stars twinkle and the dust clouds seem to mysteriously move. Carl said: “The exact technique I use is a closely guarded trade secret because it is so effective. It is a painstaking process as you have to position the colours perfectly to achieve a three-dimensional effect but the results are definitely worth it. The stars twinkle and the dust clouds appear to move as you lie in bed looking at it. Everybody is blown away by it when they see it and my children think it is amazing.”
Travelodge has introduced a Night Sky room in 12 Travelodge hotels after surveying the nation’s most desirable sleeping locations. Forty-two per cent of adults voted for a starry sky, followed by sleeping by the sea and a sandy beach. A third of Britons said they enjoyed looking at a night sky at bedtime and four out of 10 said it put them in the mood for romance.
Neil Shah, founder of The Stress Management Society said: “The Travelodge night sky room is a great concept to help you de-stress after a long day. Focusing on something, such as a sky full of stars, which the brain is unable to consciously analyse or tune into, encourages our minds to switch off and drift into a stress free deep sleep.”
To view the Travelodge Cosmic Night Sky Room visit www.youtube.com/travelodgeuk
Rooms are available in Birmingham, Blackpool, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Newquay and Torquay from £21.
Click here to book with www.travelodge.co.uk
