Having a guest house requires a lot of work and a lot of personal investment. All your efforts should not be nullified due to poor bedding or poor quality bed linen .
Your customers do not only come to you to spend one or more nights, they go to your guest house to have an experience.
Your customers have spent time on the internet to find the bed and breakfast that could suit them, meet their needs and find the comfort they are looking for. You cannot and should not disappoint them, at the risk of being confronted with a big dissatisfaction and negative comments on online booking sites or your social networks.
1 - WHICH BED LINEN TO CHOOSE
In order to please as many people as possible, we invite you to invest in a cotton or linen bed linen.
For cotton, prefer the washed cotton percale which is matte, light and very soft. Our weaving in 120 threads per cm2 is perfectly suitable for the repeated washing that you can subject it to and the Egyptian cotton that we use is renowned for its robustness and its softness.
The fact that our cotton percale is pre-washed in the workshop gives it a slight crumpled appearance, very aesthetic (a bit like washed linen) which considerably reduces ironing compared to a classic percale or cotton satin.
Regarding linen , opt for washed linen which is more resistant and a grammage of at least 180 grams / m2. At Most, we offer a linen washed in 190 grams / m2 Oeko-Tex certified and made in Portugal . In addition to being an ecological fiber, washed linen is always related to high-end bed linen. If you hesitate between cotton and linen, we invite you to choose washed linen. Your customer feedback will be even better.
2 - THE COLOR OF YOUR SHEETS
The color of the bed linen to choose is always complicated. You can never really know where to go.
Before giving you our color advice, you probably know the atmosphere you are going to give to your guest house. This atmosphere should guide you towards colors.
If the atmosphere is rather neutral, then opt for neutral tones like white or beige. In addition to pleasing the majority of your customers, they will have the certainty that their sheets are clean, unlike dark sheets which could hide stains.
3 - THE NUMBER OF BED LINE
For each bedroom, we recommend that you have 3 bed sets . Indeed, if you have 3 sets of bed linen , you can be more comfortable at each of your customers' arrivals, but also respond to a specific request from a customer who would like to change their bed linen during stay.
You need :
3 fitted sheets
3 duvet covers
6 pillowcases
4 - THE SIZE OF THE BED
Pay particular attention to the size of the bed. We recommend at least a 160 cm x 200 cm bed for the comfort of your customers (avoid the 140 cm x 190 cm). If the size of the room allows, opt for a 180 cm x 200 cm. You are sure to please with this type of bed.
5 - IRONING YOUR BED LINE
We know how busy your time is and how busy your days are. However, we do not recommend choosing a bed linen with the words "without ironing" or "easy care".
These two statements promise to save you time, but do not tell you how bad they are for the environment, but also for the health of your customers. The non-iron bed linen has been treated with harmful chemicals to keep the cotton fiber in shape and taut.
There are labels that can guarantee that you do not use this type of chemical. The best known is the Oeko-Tex label .
Oeko-Tex bed linen , therefore certified free of harmful chemicals, cannot bear the words "without ironing" or "easy care".
On the other hand, in order to facilitate your ironing there are solutions. You can opt for washed linen or washed cotton percale which both have a slightly crumpled appearance naturally and which considerably limits the ironing time.
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