Front Desk? Please Send a Bed-warmer To My Room. Thank You.

This winter has been unusually cold in Britain.  In response, three Holiday Inn hotels there are offeering to provide guests with bed-warmers.  Human bed-warmers.
If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain's London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between the sheets.

Holiday Inn said the warmer would be fully dressed and leave the bed before the guest occupied it. They could not confirm if the warmer would shower first, but said hair would be covered.

Link.  Pictured in the inset is a traditional English copper bed warmer.

Eh? For me, one of life's great joys is slipping into a cold bed and warming it up with my own body heat. Great sloshing about and kicking activity creates unique and rewarding moments of life!
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Are these some of the Green Jobs we keep hearing about??

Sky: "Plankton! What does your Earth-Mother do for a living?"

Plankton: "My Earth-Mother is a bed-warmer for Holiday-Inn!"

Sky: "Woah! That's cool!"

Plankton: "No, she can't be cool, otherwise she will lose her Green Job!"
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Bloody English wusses. (I say that as a former one.)

A few Saturday's ago where I live (Edmonton, Alberta) for a brief while we were the coldest place on Earth. Read that again, we were officially THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH.

We spent two months below -20 celsius in the run up to Christmas.

People need to visit somewhere REALLY cold and then stop bothering the nice Holiday Inn people with their asinine requests for a warm bed.

Holiday Inn should just say "Okay Sir" and set fire to the bed. "Warm enough now, Sir?"
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Ahhhh this reminds me somewhat of the Good Old Days when one had a whole bunch of slaves standing by just to provide this kind of services..... :-P

...Bizarre........
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Oh man. I work at the front desk of a hotel in Miami, and there were 2 weeks after christmas when we were in the 30s and 40s...which we NEVER get. Guests would come down or call yelling because their heater doesn't work. All I could do is say...I'm sorry... this is Miami we never get this cold so most buildings don't even HAVE heaters.

It would've been helpful to have these bed warmers...
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Alex would have been sexist if he said "don't send women" I think he just expressed what the rest of us guys were thinking.

What is the proper tip for a bed warmer? Do you pay more if the room is colder, or if the warmer has more heat?
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This is the kind of token "innovation" from a socialist state where the most ludicrously useless jobs are fully backed by government healthcare and whatnot. In the U.S. something as stupid as bed warmers would be laughed out of the boardroom and nobody would spend a dime for them.
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