NYC hotel uses sleep concierge 纽约旅馆特聘守眠人

A New York City hotelis so determined to(1)make sure its customers get a good night's rest that it's got its own sleepconcierge(2).

"I've learned a lot about sleep since I started this job," said Anya Orlanska, who four months ago took the job at The Benjamin, a hotel inmidtown(3)Manhattan. "There are so many things that can be done."

The hotel, which created the position several years ago, is serious about its mission, offering customers amattress(4)specifically created for the hotel and a menu of over a dozen different pillows including one with a speaker built into it and a cord that plugs into an iPod.

Guests also have the option of a before-bedtime massage and snacks believed to make you sleepy — for an extra charge.

"We've done a lot of research regarding sleeping, how to make people comfortable," Orlanska said in an interview Monday.

She said she's taken the hotel's different types of pillows — some made withbuckwheat(5),others withdown(6)— home with her to try them out for a couple of days.

"You have to experience it yourself to actually sell the product," she said.

The hotel guarantees customers will sleep as well at the hotel as they do at home, or they get a free night's stay. Room rates vary depending on the day of the week and the time of year, anywhere from a couple to at least several hundred dollars a night. In the time Orlanska has been there, no one's taken them up on it.

The reaction tends to be more like the one she got from a woman whose husband was ahardcore (7) snorer(8).The pillow they used was so effective at quieting him down, Orlanska said, that the woman wanted to buy it and take it home with her.

1. be determined to：坚决要做…

2. concierge：：旅馆或公寓里协助客人搬运行李或提供服务的人员

3. midtown：市中心区的

4. mattress：床垫