Preparing for the influx of summer students this year?

It’s not just the Olympics that will be bringing people to our shores in 2012. Summer in the UK brings with it a huge influx of tourism and foreign students. They come from all over the world, packing up their cases and heading for the airport to make the most of their summer studying in the UK.

With all these extra numbers flooding to our sunny shores in search of a place to stay, it can be a struggle to keep up with the demand for beds. Campuses all across the country will be looking to make the most of the space available by choosing the most compact, space-saving beds available, which is why Millbrook Contract Beds have designed an entire range of beds specifically targeted towards Academic Residences.

Each of the contract beds in this dedicated Academic range are ideally suited to the unique challenges posed by an academic setting, being highly durable and hardwearing while at the same time representing an economical option.

The first solution in our practical range of Academic Contract Beds is the Conference bed, available in a range of sizes from Single to Super King Size – in fact we even offer the convenient option of bespoke non-standard sizes made to fit your needs perfectly. The Conference’s open coil and woollen felt stuffed mattress design ensure a comfortable night’s sleep, while the breathable fabric is sure to keep you cool on even the hottest summer night. The solid metal frame and wipe-clean mattress style also mean this bed will last for many Summer seasons to come.

Next on the list of Millbrook’s dedicated Academic Contract Bed collection is the stylish Residence bed, available in the space-saving Single size of 90cm x 190cm. The sophisticated wooden headboard of this elegant design is sure to add a touch of class to any academic residence and fit in with any decor scheme without breaking the bank. At the same time, the easily cleanable PVC covered mattress perfectly addresses the paramount priority of hygienic bedding solutions.

Finally, Millbrook’s Academic collection is rounded off with the Campus bed design, a comfortable and versatile contract bed with an open coil type mattress and the option of detachable or fixed legs, allowing you to adjust the height of the bed to best suit your accommodation needs. As with all Millbrook’s Academic styles, the Campus is easy to clean to save you time preparing your rooms. What’s more, it’s also available in a wide range of sizes to fit every room.

Whichever of these quality student contract beds is right for your Academic Residence, we hope we at Millbrook beds can help you ensure your busy summer season ahead goes by without a hitch.

Revisiting the Millbrook Contract Beds collections – Academic

At Millbrook Contract Beds we’ve started down a road of revisiting our contract bed collections to refresh our customers on just what makes us such leading experts in sleep and comfort. With the anticipation alive for the 2012 Olympics this year, we thought it pertinent to get back to the basics of our business. Read what we had to say about our International Collection for the hospitality industry HERE. Continue reading »

Student sleep cycles versus Millbrook contract beds

Sleep studies are suggesting that students of the college and university variety are losing sleep due to overindulgence in party lifestyles, bad diet regimes and ramshackle sleep cycles. This comes as no surprise to anyone we’re sure. Part of the attraction to being a student for younger people is the pure unadulterated freedom to act out and go wild. Millbrook Contract Beds would like to step in to give our two cents on this particular matter – and no we’re not old granddads without any sense of fun over here! We just know that sleep matters… A lot. Continue reading »

Take advantage of the Christmas period to refresh your contract beds

The approach of the new year means that you can look at your business with a fresh pair of eyes. You can start to consider how you might improve the accommodations and contract beds to attract more prospective tenants or guests. Millbrook Contract Beds believes that the hospitality industry and student accommodation can benefit from getting rid of any bedroom furniture to give a new lease of life to the room. You can take this opportunity to start replacing any contract beds that are near the end of their life; no-one likes sleeping on an old and uncomfortable contract bed! Continue reading »

The aftermath of student living and the damages inflicted to the contract bedroom furniture

If you’re a private landlord or a lettings agency that lets out to students you may well be aware of the potential risks or indeed already accustomed to renting properties out to groups of students. Remember, for some of them it is their first time away from home and living with people of a similar age to them results in providing plenty of opportunities to party. Not to say you can label all young students as crazy party-goers; there are many that are a pleasure to have as tenants, but there will always be those that cause considerable problems for a landlord or lettings agency.

The issues that properties can often suffer from are noise pollution, late payments for rent and sometimes damage to the property itself from the interiors, exteriors and contract bedroom furniture.

Millbrook Contract Beds wants to address what happens if you find that during the academic seasons that a property you are letting has incurred damage to its contract beds, its table, chairs, carpets etc. You only need to perform a quick search on the Internet to see and read some of the nightmare stories of landlord clean-ups after wild students vacate a property. Some don’t even care that they won’t see their deposit returned. This creates the problem of what to do next. You may have the money available from the non-refunded deposits to afford new contract bedroom furniture but you have to consider your options.

As one of the best contract bed suppliers in the business, Millbrook knows where you can start – by contacting us!

We have extensive experience in the business of contract bed replacement where once the old contract beds have worn out their welcome or been treated with poor care, we deliver the new beds and get rid of the old ones for you. This can help many lettings agencies and landlords sidestep the landmine of what to do with those contract beds that have been decimated by their previous tenants.

The Academic Collection is a Millbrook favourite that can be sued as temporary or permanent replacements in a student house.

Temporary solutions to contract bed problems can be found with the use of The Residence – a highly practical and durable bed with PVC mattress that is hardwearing in many types of locations. It has no drawers, which means there is space for storage beneath it. This type of contract bed is better as short-term solution to bed problems or as a “back-up” bed to help create extra sleeping space.

The Campus contract bed is designed especially for student residences and campuses (hence its name). In a crisis you need to ensure that you have the right contract bed replacement option available to you. it’s a smart design with open coil springs and standard comfort level. The bed frame is available with fixed or detachable legs with a mattress that has a fresh design in an easy to clean stitchbond cover.

Millbrook Contract Beds is always open to giving people impartial advice on their contract bed options. Contact Us for more information or you can always follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook and ask us your questions there.

A Contract Bed Guide – Millbrook Blog Recap Part 7

As Millbrook Contract Beds draws ever nearer to the end of our Blog Recap, we look back on our past musings with a sense of nostalgia and hope that some of the information we have imparted over the last nine to ten months has been of some help to those that have read it.

It all started from a simple idea of communicating our business across through blogging about the benefits of our contract beds and the details of our industry. Since then we have covered everything from hospitality to academia to healthcare and beyond.

It’s not too late to jump into our Blog Recap series; you can read from the start and catch-up on all the details of past blogs that you have missed with BLOG RECAP’S PART 1, PART 2, PART 3, PART 4, PART 5 and PART 6.

40.  Healthcare contract beds – The Purity

This was Part 1 of a 2-part blog that chronicled the Healthcare Collection starting with The Purity. A profile was developed that extensively covered the features, benefits and essential ingredients that are put into The Purity and why it is indispensable to healthcare industries.

41.  Healthcare contract beds – The Therapy

This was the concluding part of a 2-part blog on Healthcare contract beds. The Therapy was profiled in detail from design to functionality creating an in-depth exploration of one of the finest contract beds ever built.

42.  Poll conducted: What hoteliers look for in their contract bed supplier

Taking a step in a different direction, Millbrook Contract Beds decided to poll a series of hotels and B&B’s for their opinions on contract bedroom furniture and meeting demands and guest expectations. This was an insight into our clients and how they operated.

43.  Academic Collection – The Conference contract bed

The Academic Collection was the last collection on our list to explore and we wanted to start off with The Conference – one of the most practical contract beds. This bed is about economy of price and economy of space. The profile consisted of exploring its uses in a wealth of detail.

44.  Academic Collection – The Residence contract bed

The second part in the Academic Collection trilogy was about taking a closer look at The Residence. Now this was an attempt to highlight its uses for hospitality and academic industries. Its compact, practical design gives it an overwhelmingly useful purpose for either industry.

45.  Academic Collection – The Campus contract bed

Concluding, not only the Academic Collection blog trilogy, but also the profiles on the entire Millbrook contract bed ranges including International and Healthcare – a profile of The Campus contract bed completed the journey. It was the very last in our Millbrook bed collection profiling series.

And that brings us to the end of Part 7 as we come closer to successfully indexing our entire blog thus far.

Prepare for the final few blogs coming up over the next couple of weeks.

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Improve your fill rates with contract beds

Experienced hoteliers know that the summer ahead is where their businesses will begin to boom. The sunshine and good weather brings travellers from all over the country and even the world. As the bookings increase and you begin to reach maximum capacity, what do you do when you need to book extra people into a room share, but there isn’t enough contract beds for everyone?

This is a situation that’s easy to find yourself in. In some cases, unfortunately, you simply have to turn away the extra business, purely for the fact you have no contract beds available.

However, with Millbrook contract beds there is a zip and link option provided with many of our ranges. This gives you great flexibility when you are faced with the need to increase your fill rate and achieve maximum capacity. Room changes become less of an obstacle, the ability to accommodate larger numbers of people efficiently and swiftly is suddenly possible and short-notice bookings no longer seem a daunting task.

Zip and link contract beds are linked together by bars through which the mattresses are attached and linked up via a zip. These are fantastic alternatives to the usual bed types available and become economical space savers. Zip and link contract beds work for luxury hotels, guest houses, B&B’s, hostels and even for homes that take in student boarders during the summer. They can be applied to almost any situation where contract beds are needed to fill space and make room for additional guests and visitors. The main goal is to increase your revenue over the busy periods.

The zip and link option with contract beds is cost effective too!

Contract beds that suit hotels and also come with zip and link options are in supply of plenty. Choice contract beds from Millbrook contract beds’ International collections are;

The Hotel – a bed that has proven tremendously popular in the hotel and leisure industry. It is the classic firm option bed that’s practical and hardwearing.

The Executive – is a set of stylish twin beds, which enhance any room they are put in. They provide different levels of comfort so that your guests have the option to select which level best suits their needs. The zip and link model allows for flexibility as a double bed or as a twin.

From the Academic collection the most suitable zip and link options are;

The Conference – an open coil mattress on metal skid leg base. The mattress has a wipe clean breathable cover that can be cleaned time and again. Zip and link option available to suit your requirements.

The Campus – a smart design featuring open coil springs with an easy to clean stichbond covered mattress. The bed frame is available with fixed or detachable legs. The zip and link option allows for generous economy of space when you need it.

This summer is looking like it will be a booming one for the hotel industry. If you are a hotelier or if you are in the leisure industry, looking to find contract beds that offer flexibility in their range and applications, Millbrook Contract Beds can steer you in the right direction, so your business can flourish in the busy, coming summer months.

Contract beds for children

If you’re a family run establishment or if you are a youth based service holiday provider, then you may not always consider the impact of the right kind of contract bed for guests.

In reality it is the contract beds that young guests actually sleep in that gives them the blissful good-night’s rest they very much need and perhaps (although not always) a good way of getting them settled more easily.

A decent night’s sleep for a child is essential to their development in terms of learning, and their psychical and emotional growth and a lot of parents these days, put considerable emphasis not only on their own sleeping arrangements while on holiday, but that of their children.  It is important to provide children with the benefits of a good sleep which focuses their minds, releases growth hormones and encourages bodily development. When considering a child’s sleep, you must factor in the environment that surrounds them and the contract bed that you put them to sleep in. So what is the best option for children in terms of contract beds?

Contract beds should be comfortable but also provide enough storage space beneath the sleeping surface for any toys or games that they may have with them. The right mattress is essential to give the correct support for growing muscles and bones. Millbrook contract beds offer suitable bed and mattress types in the Academic Collection that offer support, comfort and space.

The Residence contract bed has a PVC mattress cover and is highly practical and durable in many types of locations. It is hard wearing and comfortable with non standard sizes available to suit a child’s individual size requirements.

The Residence

The Campus is similarly appropriate, featuring open coil springs with a bed frame available with fixed or detachable legs. Once again, there are non-standard size options to suit particular child requirements.

The Campus

Practicality needs to be combined with economy in some cases and the Academic collection is a fine choice to suit the needs and requirements of both of those things. All of the bases are sturdy and there is a veritable choice selection of bed frames and legs. The Space-Saver designs can also give you the flexibility to provide extra beds if you are required to do so.

Always buy contract beds for children brand new! Never give a child a hand-me-down mattress. Second hand items such as this will only cause the very problems you are trying to avoid for growing children.

The main tips for making children’s sleep experience as safe and sound as possible when providing for their sleeping facilities are:

Gently vacuum the contract bed and mattress regularly to suck up any dust or fluff, particularly if the child suffers from a form of asthma. It is always important to establish when children are staying in a room if there are any ailments, illnesses or allergies that they may suffer from in order to prepare the room accordingly.

If the sprung mattress is a non-turn, it should be turned over once a week for the first month and thereafter every three months. Refer to manufacture details for particular specifics. Turning helps the fillings to settle down evenly.

Do not let the child jump up and down or bounce on the mattress, for the obvious safety reasons, but also because it damages the mattress. It is not just the sole responsibility of the parents, carers and/or guardians to ensure that the children behave sensibly at bedtime when staying in your establishment. Every child needs to go to bed at a reasonable time and if you have other guests, you do not want them to be disturbed. This only emphasises the vital importance of providing the best contract beds for kids. The better and more appropriate the contract bed, the longer and deeper the sleep of the child.

Caring for children’s contract beds should require the same care and consideration that goes into caring for adult contract beds. Parents appreciate when their children go to bed so they can have some time to themselves and it can be a blessing to them if the children are comfortably asleep with a reassurance that they are tucked up in the right kind of contract bed. As a hotelier you can increase your capacity for clientele and your annual business by becoming more family-friendly through providing the appropriate contract beds with the ability to turn a single room into a twin, or a double room into a family room share.

Contact Millbrook Contract Beds for more information or advice.

Contract beds for children