“You can’t always change your body’s needs, but you can change
where it feels safe to sleep.”
— Kelly Haapala, Patient Advocate & Founder of Own Your Sleep™
About Own Your Sleep™
by Own Your Path
Own Your Sleep™ is an advisory initiative helping boutique hotels and hotel properties thoughtfully enhance their accommodations for guests with specialized wellness, comfort, and accessibility needs.
We help forward-thinking hospitality leaders create small but impactful improvements that modern, wellness-conscious travelers value, all without costly renovations or disruptive overhauls.
“Own Your Sleep™ is led by a lifelong advocate, a global medical voice, and a former patient advisor to one of Michigan’s largest hospital systems—someone who has lived the need, not just studied it. She’s also a USL Soccer National Champion Director who knows how to build winning teams by seeing the bigger picture.”
About CEO/Founder Kelly Haapala
Kelly Haapala is a nationally recognized patient advocate and founder of Own Your Sleep™ by Own Your Path LLC.
Her work has been in many arenas including sports, business, and the medical arena. Especially in helping families with autism, with anesthesia awareness and other medical issues. Her work has been recognized nationally and world-wide in championships as well as television, articles and in a Supreme Court brief on lethal injections.
As a former spokesperson for the Anesthesia Awareness Campaign, the Aspect Medical BIS Monitor (brain activity monitor) and a patient advisor to Henry Ford Hospital’s design leadership during the creation of its West Bloomfield campus, Kelly brings lived experience and deep expertise in creating environments that prioritize wellness, comfort, and thoughtful care.
Her unique background and expertise helps to guide Own Your Sleep's™ mission to help hotels deliver better guest experiences for an underserved but growing traveler demographic as well as helping individuals to feel safe to travel again.
Luxury Hotels & Adjustable Beds
It’s important to note that adjustable beds are not just a medical necessity, they’re also becoming a sought-after luxury amenity.
Around the world, select high-end hotels and wellness resorts already promote adjustable and smart beds as premium sleep experiences, proving that this offering is both modern and desirable.
Yet these examples remain exceptions, not the rule. Luxury properties come with barriers that exclude the majority of travelers:
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Cost: Rooms with adjustable or smart beds are marketed at premium prices, accessible only to those with higher budgets.
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Availability: Only a handful of properties worldwide offer them, limiting choices for everyday travelers.
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Accessibility gap: These beds are framed as indulgence, not inclusion—meaning guests with disabilities or health conditions rarely find them marketed for their needs.
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Location limits: Resorts and flagship hotels may highlight these beds, but they are concentrated in major cities or destination properties, not in the places where most families and medical travelers actually need to stay.
The existence of luxury adjustable-bed rooms proves that demand is real. But without a broader, values-driven standard like Own Your Sleep™, most travelers, especially those with medical needs, remain without reliable, affordable access.
Many travelers face overlooked needs when it comes to sleep comfort, wellness, and safety, but most hotels haven’t adapted yet.
Interestingly, some cruise lines have already recognized this need. Several cruise lines facilitate advance-request delivery of hospital-style/adjustable beds to accessible staterooms through approved medical-equipment vendors. These accommodations are handled via each line’s special-needs process and may require an accessible cabin and reconfiguration of furniture.
There is no widespread option for the broader population of wellness-conscious travelers who might simply prefer upright or adjustable sleep arrangements.
Hotels generally haven’t caught up. While accessible hotel rooms focus on door widths, bathroom rails, and alarms, few offer adjustable beds, even though travelers like me know how valuable that option could be.
Own Your Sleep™ exists to help hotels close this gap, simply, affordably, and thoughtfully, so they can serve all guests better.
Sources:
Why This Matters: Learning from the Cruise Industry
Giving Back
At Own Your Sleep™, we know rest is not a luxury, it’s vital. For some, it supports healing. For others, it’s the only safe way they’ve ever been able to sleep. Either way, rest is the foundation of dignity, safety, and life itself.
That’s why we proudly support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where children and families receive not only treatment but also comfort and care without ever receiving a bill.
As we grow, a portion of every partnership and purchase will go toward St. Jude, because whether for recovery or daily living, true rest should always be possible.
Contact
Interested in what small enhancements could set your property apart?
Let’s talk—because thoughtful sleep is the next frontier in guest care.