We book hotel rooms for a good night's sleep, plain and simple. But too often we find it's easier to get a midnight snack than a midnight snooze. Just ask Adrian Coombes, who flies more than 80,000 miles per year as vice president of sales for skin-care manufacturer GOJO Industries. Coombes has amassed not only a bevy of frequent flyer miles, but he has also accumulated valuable tips on grabbing quality sleep on the road.

Stay in suite hotels

"Getting good rest isn't just about laying your head on a pillow and sleeping," Coombes says. "It's being able to feel like you're somewhere other than a motel room." After an arduous day of work or travel, it's necessary to transition the body from drive to park, and the small sitting rooms of suite hotels are the ideal place to do just that. Plus, Coombes adds, "You can make yourself a cup of tea without having to go downstairs to the smoky bar."

Request turndown service

Many hotels offer this service upon request and Coombes always takes advantage of it. A simple phone call is all it takes to be greeted after dinner by a welcoming bed, sheets neatly folded back and garnished with a mint. "It isn't a big thing," he admits, "but it's kind of nice and relaxing. It gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling. And it's something I certainly don't get at home."

Location, location, location

If Coombes has gleaned anything from his travels, it is to request a room at the opposite end of the hall from the hotel's elevator and ice machine. "That way you don't have to listen to the 'ding-ding-ding' of the elevator or the 'crash-crash-crash' of ice hitting the bucket," Coombes says. As a precaution, he always travels with a pair of earplugs. Coombes will often crank the air conditioning long before hitting the hay so that he can silence the noisy thing at bedtime and still be cool and comfy overnight.

Enroll in hotel preferred guest programs

These customer incentive packages provide upgrades to bigger and better rooms, late checkout times so you can sleep in and in-room freebies like a complimentary bottle of wine. The programs also let members accumulate points for free stays, so they help you get more bed for your buck.

Luxurious bed = luxurious sleep

Coombes says he always looks for hotels where the bed is comfortable, but he says Westin has the dreamiest sacks of all. "The first time I slept in one of Westin's Heavenly Beds," Coombes coos, "it was literally like sleeping in the clouds." With its trademark "ten layers of luxury," the Heavenly Bed cocoons snoozers in an all-white ensemble of Egyptian cotton sheets, fluffy feather blankets and goose down pillows. It's so comfy the hotel has sold 10,000 Heavenly Bed ensembles to guests who took them home to their own beds.