Some people can fall asleep at the drop of a hat. Others struggle to drift off if there is even the tiniest prick of light coming into the room. If you fall into the latter camp, the internet has a solution for you.
A hotel room hack has left the Internet babbling. Courtesy of journalist Amanda Finnegan, the hack involves doing the following: taking a clothes hanger from the wardrobe of your hotel room, and then using the ‘pant clips’ to secure your two curtains together so that there is no gap.
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“If you don’t know this hotel-room hack…then you aren’t as crazy about light leakage as I am,” Finnegan wrote. She then followed up this hack with another seek-and-destroy light mission, posting a photo of a fire alarm with a band-aid taped over its flickering light.
“If you loved the clip-hanger on the hotel drapes hack, then you’ll love the bandaid and old parking garage ticket on the smoke alarm light trick,” Finnegan wrote.
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Other users chimed in with their own strategies for light avoidance. One said: “I know people who travel with chip clips or clothes pins for this purpose. I might be one of those people.”
First time I did this for a work trip I overslept by almost an hour.
— Joe Youngblood (@YoungbloodJoe) January 27, 2023
It was glorious.
Another added: “I unplug the TV and alarm clock and put a rolled up towel at the bottom of the door to the hall.”
Yet another added: “First time I did this for a work trip I overslept by almost an hour. It was glorious.”
Another commiserated: “I do major surgery on my hotel room in the middle of the night on a regular basis. Pillows for light under doors, tape and stickers on smoke detectors, unplug every device possible. It still plagues me. Send help!”
Yes to this. When I wake up after middle of night bathroom break, and it’s still dark out, I put my mask on to help me back to sleep. Otherwise phone goes on, and… no sleep.
— DillyFillyNilly (@DillyFillyNilly) January 27, 2023
Other less sympathetic Twitter users suggested simply travelling with a sleep mask and earplugs. We’d have to say: with so many blinking lights (and buzzing fridges) in so many hotels, both options sound like smart ideas.