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A Hotel Manager’s Guide to Choosing the Perfect Duvet

Your choice of bedding says a lot about your hotel and the guest experience you want to provide. Hotel duvets should not only be chosen with guest sleep quality in mind, but they should also match your offering and price point. If your guests are paying a premium price, they’ll expect a premium product and luxury hotel bedding. 

While hotel duvets form just one part of your unique guest experience, their importance should not be underestimated. In this blog, we cover all the need-to-know information for choosing the right hotel duvets for your business - decoding filling options, materials, togs, sizings and much more.

Hotel duvet materials and fillings

When choosing the right hotel duvets for your guests, it’s important to consider cover material and the fill itself: 

Duvet fill

We categorise duvet fillings into three different types:

Luxurious

Premium hotel duvets are usually made with ‘natural’ fillings like feather and down and sit at the higher end of the pricing scale. Our Belvedere Duvet is a favourite among luxury establishments, with its 85% duck feather, 15% down combination providing a light, breathable and beautifully sumptuous feel. 

Hypoallergenic hotel duvets

Duvets with synthetic fills are affordable all-rounders. Feathers and down aren’t for everyone - vegans and allergy sufferers being just a couple of examples - whereas synthetic, hypoallergenic materials are a safe bet for almost every guest. 

They’ve long been a popular choice for budget and mid-range hotels, but as technologies develop, they’re giving luxury options a run for their money too. Our Brooklands duvet is a popular down alternative with siliconised fibres for a sumptuous soft and luxurious finish. We also have the Claremont Micro Down Duvet which offers a synthetic alternative to down with a similar feel. 

Eco-friendly

With many hospitality businesses making a concerted effort to drive down their carbon footprints, eco-friendly products are seeing greater demand. Hotel quality duvets are no exception. 

Our Ashton duvet, made from 100% PET plastic bottles, has become a go-to for climate conscious hoteliers that don’t want to compromise on comfort. Meanwhile, our new Clevedon duvet combines sustainability and a high-end feel, using recycled plastic to achieve a luxurious, lofty fill. 

Duvet cover materials

Hotel sheets and duvet covers are two separate things. Here we’re referring to the cover that encases the duvet filling - not to be confused with the bed linen that sits on top! 

While guests are unlikely to notice the hotel duvet covers, with them being covered by linen, choosing the right material is still important for comfort and experience. If you’ve opted for hotel quality duvet covers with a feather filling, for example, you’ll need cotton covers to stop the material poking through. 

Our duvet covers are: 

• Cotton - Providing breathability and a luxurious finish. For high thread count duvet covers, look no further than our T230 and cambric cotton-covered duvets.  

• Microfibre - The perfect complement to soft hotel duvets, providing a cool, smooth outer and a bright white finish. 

• Polycotton - Wonderfully long-lasting and low-maintenance. Our polycotton covers are wrinkle-resistant and machine washable. 

Tog ratings

A duvet’s tog is essentially its warmth rating. 10.5 tog is the hospitality industry standard for year-round comfort, and this can be paired with soft throws so guests can add extra layers for warmth and comfort in the colder months. We produce a range of cosy hotel blankets and hotel bedroom essentials to help make bedding adaptable and add a splash of colour to the room.

Some hotels may prefer to rotate duvets seasonally to adapt with the weather and reduce wear, opting for 4.5 tog duvets in summer and 12 to 13.5 tog in the colder winter months. 

Duvet size and fit 

All our hotel duvet covers come in UK sizings, available in single, double, king size and super king.

These are: 

Care and maintenance for hotel style duvets

When choosing hotel style duvet covers, pay attention to the manufacturer’s maintenance instructions to ensure you’ll be able to care for them properly. This is essential to prolong hotel duvet quality and lifespan, and get the most from your investment. 

Our top tips: 

• Clean according to the label. While some microfibre and hollowfibre duvets can be machine washed on-premise, feather and down duvets are typically dry clean only. 

• Ask housekeepers to give hotel bedroom duvets a good shake during daily room service to maintain even fill distribution.

• Invest in good quality protective covers on all bedding to keep it looking fresh and extend its lifespan.

Find hotel quality duvet covers in the UK

There’s something incredibly aesthetic and luxurious about hotel quality white duvet covers and crisp white hotel bedding sets. However, their importance goes far beyond visual appeal - they’re essential for guest sleep quality and satisfaction. 

Hoteliers spend too much time honing and developing their offering and guest experience for their bedding choices to let them down. When you work with Star Linen, we won’t let that be the case! We have a broad range of quality hotel duvet covers for sale as well as hotel-style bed linen and hotel bed accessories for all price points.

Browse our range here. Or, if you need help navigating the different types of hospitality duvets and sheets on the market, and selecting the right products for your budget, talk to our experienced team - we’d be happy to help.