Hotbunking at the Holiday Inn

Having spent some time hotbunking while in the USNavy, I cannot imagine anyone preferring it. Crawling into a rack immediately after someone leaves is disgusting.

But times change and people are sometimes idiotic. Check out this report from last week.

The Holiday Inn's Kensington, London, location will offer a free five-minute “human bed warming” service throughout next week, according to Britain's Sky News.

So what does a human bed warmer do? A hotel staffer, dressed from head-to-toe in a white, fleecy getup that looks like a cross between a footed pajama set and a snowsuit, will get into your bed upon request and move around, generating some heat between those chilly sheets.

I can't think of many things creepier than a person preferring to hotbunk. Everyone I knew in the Navy hated hotbunking. The ick factor was stratospheric. The simple memory of hotbunking disgusts me.