Sleep Tourism Targets Americans’ Health Woes. Here Are 3 Places To Try This Wellness Trend

Do you count yourself among the 1 in 3 Americans struggling with sleep? I fall into this large subset of tired stressed-out people, many of us sick of articles on sleep hygiene. So it was with particular interest that I observed this growing wellness travel trend in 2022, also called Sleep Tourism. For those of us with deep-seated insomnia, it’s hard to know if a hotel with wellness offerings can cure what ails us, but I’m willing to give anything a try. Three luxury hotels & resorts from Los Angeles, Arizona to Maui offer unique sleep-centric amenities for the modern traveler.

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Hotel Figueroa, Los Angeles: Book a Self-Care Retreat in the Rest & Recovery Suite

Often, one of the biggest gripes about staying at a hotel is the sleep experience. The pillow are too firm, too soft, or flat like a pancake. When traveling by car, I bring my own pillow. That’s how much a pillow can make or break my holiday. Heeding the call of the concern, DTLA’s iconic Hotel Figueroa offers guests the chance to book the specialty Rest & Recovery Suite where they can pre-order customized pillows from Pluto Pillow™ created based on sleep preferences and ready upon arrival in the suite.

And the mattress? Your partner sleeps cold, and you run hot? Hotel Figueroa’s suite features an Eight Sleep mattress that comes with a smart temperature adjustment which responds to temperature throughout the night on both sides of the bed.

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Since exercise enhances sleep, take advantage of the in-room workout option complements of the personal strength fitness mirror, FORME, before recovering with a selection of Normatec recovery tools from Hyperice, and supplements from beam, while breathing fresh air from Molekule’s Air Pro system.

The Rest & Recovery Suite also has a GammaLight Therapy Revive Red Light, which provides 670nm red-light to optimize sleep quality and improve daytime mental and physical performance, and a Loftie Lamp, offering guests a “personal sunrise” with dawn simulation features gradual light disappearance for optimal rest. Syncing your circadian rhythm while eating breakfast in bed? That’s one feature I can applaud.

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Castle Hot Springs, Arizona: Book a Desert Vacation Sleep Retreat

Arizona’s Castle Hot Springs wants to relieve and revive travelers looking for the ultimate reset and reboot in 2023 with a series of Sleep Retreats. (The next date is May 18-21, 2023.)

Retreats are designed to help guests jump start a healthy sleep routine. Led by acclaimed sleep researcher and author Dr. Rebecca Robbins, each three-night Sleep Retreat will seamlessly integrate surrounding nature and wellness aspects of the property into a fully immersive experience centered on reforming your sleep.

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Situated on a desert oasis, this wellness hideaway offers an 1,100-acre nature-filled sanctuary dedicated to enriching the mind, body, and spirit. Seamlessly infused with the property’s nature-centric ethos, Dr. Robbins will guide guests through discussions, strategies, meditations, and centering activities including circadian-boosting yoga and morning hikes.

Castle Hot Springs offers a well-balanced approached to wellness, allowing guests to reset throughout the entire retreat. The geothermal hot springs have long made it a restorative ground for visitors beginning with Native Americans who journeyed to the mineral-rich waters for medicinal purposes. Naturally occurring, the hot springs boast a variety of beneficial minerals including lithium, magnesium, and bicarbonates, which together can help ease aching joints and muscles, calm the mind and lift one’s mood.

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Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, Hawaii: Try Customized Wellness Therapies with Next|Health

A Swedish massage from the standard spa menu no longer answers the needs of hotel guests, especially long-haul travelers alighting on faraway destinations like Hawaii. Today, health and wellness experiences are all about curation and customization, especially for travelers with sleep concerns.

Maui’s five-star luxury resort Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea recently debuted a first-of-its-kind wellness offering with Next|Health. The collaboration seeks to revolutionize the concept of preventative health treatments for travelers, in essence, upgrading the spa experience to one with medical grade precision.

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What does that mean? Visitors now have access to an array of Next|Health offerings including Next-Level NAD+ IV treatments including customized IV therapies like Stress IV (which targets inflammation, mood swings, and irritability, all symptoms of poor or deprived sleep), vitamin shots, and wellness tests like the Micronutrient Test (lack of vitamins and minerals can cause poor sleep — take it from me!)

A slate of new treatments were added in 2023 including Ozone Therapy, Stem Cell Therapy, and Exosomes Therapy ranging in price from $1,200 – $12,000. While not specifically targeting insomnia, improving one’s health overall has a significant impact on nighttime rest.