Your room is a place to retreat from the world to rest, refresh and tart yourself up a bit. But what's in there? Want to have a good snoop around a Conscious Vondelpark hotel room? I'll check nobody's coming while you take a peek, below. Sssh!
Of course, there are some things you can't see here. Like your telephone, personal safe and WiFi. But they're there, mark my words.
Our Coco-mat beds are a bit special. They're packed with the fluffiest stuff nature has to offer. Coconut fibres, seaweed, horsehair, natural rubber, cotton, wool, goose down, cactus and silk are all in there. Sounds like the manufacturers are making it up to me but they swear it's all true. The only things missing are kittens' tummys and marshmallows. At least, I think they're missing... Was that a miaow?
This is a carpet. It's on the floor. It feels nice on your feet. It's not very exciting. When we replace it, the carpet - older and wiser by then - will be used again by someone else, someplace else. This sort of thing is called 'cradle-to-cradle' sustainable use. It's like reincarnation but for floor coverings. Tread carefully for, who knows, your carpet might one day adorn the kitchen of a spiritual leader or a Welsh pole dancer.
All the lights are on the latest 'LED-diet'. Producing a lot of light for very little energy. Ideal for illuminating a map of Amsterdam when you're having an argument over whether that restaurant you couldn't find last night really was on the left after the Ann Frank house (as your husband insists) or on the right (as you suspect).
This is a 26" LG LED-TV which uses almost no energy to run. If you're lucky, you might just catch your favourite TV programmes on foreign channels badly dubbed into other languages. 'Columbo' in Italian, 'Baywatch' in Flemish, . They take on a whole new dimension once out of their original language. It's like catching old Auntie Doris on a skateboard singing opera at 3am. Again.
In a Premium Room, YOU are the DJ with your iPod and iPhone docking station. That's right! Blast out your favourite tracks and really get the party started. Remember to shout out 'everybody in the main bedroom area near the luggage, put your hands in the air and make some noise'. That's what DJs say, apparently. Then rip things up with your Leonard Cohen v. Lady GaGa megamix.
