Just a guest’s perspective, purely for FYI purposes: I once stayed at a little "ma and pop" place on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, rather than a traditional hotel chain like I normally did, when I was coming to South Florida somewhat regularly in search of a charteryacht. They had those vinyl/plastic sheets. While I really like location, the amenities, the room, the quaintness, the fact that it was run by people who had an interest in the place rather than a large corporation, and most everything about the place, the crunching noise from the plastic was unbearable. I did not go back, and I was leery of the small, independent inns on the beach thereafter because I didn’t want to have to try to sleep through all the noise of the plastic.
When I went looking for waterproof mattress pads for the yacht, this scenario came to mind and I ended up finding one that was waterproof, but not plastic sounding. The first ones I got were plastic sounding, and after I opened the first one, they all got returned for fear that there will be people like me who won’t be repeat guests if the beds make that kind of noise with every movement. It sounds like you’ve taken steps to damper that noise. The whole mattress ordeal is just a catch 22, and I completely understand why inns protect their mattresses. So far, I've been lucky without incident that ever reached the mattress - I'm counting on the waterproof mattress pads to be what they say they are. It's not like I've got room to keep extra mattresses on hand.
Speaking of mattresses, I got a call Friday from a guest who was here 2 years ago. This was nice to hear: She mentioned that the night she spent here was the very best night’s sleep she’s ever had in her entire life due to how comfortable the beds were. What’s funny about that is that the mattress was the original 26 year old FOAM mattress. Hatteras used the very best materials available when building these classics (lot of airliner-quality stuff - you should see how thick the copper pipes are when you cut one open!!!) and the guests’s comment about the comfort of such an old foam mattress speaks to the validity of the Hatteras reputation. I’m still sleeping on 28 year old foam, and it’s very comfortable. I’m almost afraid to get new mattresses.
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