Does jet lag make you feel like a walking zombie? Your hotel might be able to help.
Hotels are increasingly addressing jet lag, betting that helps an exhausted guest could turn them into grateful — and loyal — customers.
Jet lag can occur when someone crosses three or more time zones and a thrown-off body clock disrupts daily rhythms. Not everyone gets it, but those who do can feel exhausted and irritable and have trouble concentrating. Symptoms vary by number of time zones crossed, the traveler's age and direction of travel. (Flying east tends to be tougher than flying west.)
If you're run-down, dehydrated and you can't adjust your body clock, then you won't be able to perform to the degree you want to.
Most of the hotels tackling jet lag are upscale. Among their offerings:
A diet and exercise plan. The 406-hotel Sheraton chain is rolling out an exercise and nutrition regime developed by Core Performance, a firm that trains top-level athletes and executives. Sheraton hotels will have special workouts developed by the firm, along with energy-rich menu items such as a breakfast banana split with low-fat cottage cheese. Mark Verstegen, Core Performance founder, says when you start to look at effects of travel, it's absolutely demanding. You have to prepare for it.
Light therapy. Over the past year, the 150-hotel Westin chain has been testing an anti-jet-lag room in its Wheeling, Ill., hotel near Chicago O'Hare. The room has a blue light in the shower designed to boost energy and a photo-therapy light on the desk. It also contains a sound machine with rainfall and beach noises, a sleep TV channel with meditative programming and black-out curtains. But you can't book the room: The hotel gives it to guests who arrive from at least two time zones away.
Special pillows. The 18-hotel Conrad chain rolled out a pillow menu, including some that have been designed by doctors to induce sleep. The idea is to let guests pick one that resembles their favorite at home. Luxury hotels have long offered jet lag spa services. Frequent traveler Rob Newman, who has had a jet lag massage at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok after the flight from the USA, says massage can help because the body doesn't naturally hold itself upright in a chair for 10 to 17 hours. But Paul Mayo of Port St. Lucie, says that it often takes him five days to feel normal after flying to the Middle East and three days when flying to Asia. He has tried everything and only time works.
Ex. 1. Answer the questions:
1. When can jet lag occur?
2. What are the symptoms of jet lag?
3. Describe an anti-jet-lag room. Can the tourists book it?
4. Who has had a jet lag massage at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok?
5. How much time does Paul Mayo need to feel normal after flying?
Ex. 2. Remember the following words and word combinations:
jet lag; time zones; to disrupt daily rhythms; to have trouble concentrating; direction of travel; nutrition regime; to tackle jet lag; energy-rich menu items; effects of travel; to book a room; hotel's general manager.
Ex. 3. Make-up sentences using the following words. The first word is underlined.
1. someone, Jet, occur, lag, when, three, crosses, zones, more, can, time, or.
2. spa, offered, have, hotels, Luxury, services, long, jet, lag.
3. rainfall, It, noises, contains, also, machine, with, and, a, sound, beach.
4. Your, be, help, hotel, able, might, to.
5. you, zombie, Jet, feel, like, lag, walking, makes, a.
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