01 · Friday · arrival
Calibration
Room lighting shifts to warm amber. Devices are surrendered to a linen pouch on the bedside table. The journal opens. The first signal of the weekend tells the body: it is evening, and it is safe to wind down.
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A hotel partnership programme
The Circadian Reset Weekend.
Forty-eight hours. One realigned guest.
A single weekend of carefully controlled light, ritual, and rest delivers 69% of a full circadian phase shift. WELL Cômpass translates that science into a turnkey programme for luxury properties — we provide the technology, the branding, and the training; the hotel provides the setting.
The science
The body is not broken. It simply needs the right environment.
In a landmark 2017 study, Wright et al. at the University of Colorado Boulder demonstrated that a single weekend of natural light exposure — no electrical lighting, no electronic devices — achieved 69% of the circadian phase shift previously documented after a full week of equivalent exposure.
The human body responds to light with extraordinary speed when given the right conditions. Forty-eight hours is enough to begin the reset.
The Circadian Reset Weekend is the operational translation of that finding — designed to be delivered inside an existing hotel room, without the guest spending two days in a tent.
The 48-hour protocol
Every signal in the room, calibrated.
02 · Saturday · sunrise
Reset
A dawn-simulation lamp brings the room from dark to 300 lux across thirty minutes. Cortisol rises naturally. The body learns — within a single morning — what waking was meant to feel like.
03 · Saturday · day
Exposure
Light is the medicine. Guests spend the day outdoors where possible, indoors under daylight-tone lighting where not. Magnesium and botanical rituals anchor the evening. Screens stay off.
04 · Sunday · departure
Carry-home
Guests leave with their blue-light glasses, their journal, and a 7-day post-stay protocol — extending the realignment into the working week and tying the result back to the property.
What ships
A single, coherent delivery.
Permanent technology arrives in a linen-covered onboarding case. Per-booking consumables ship in an ivory pouch with the guest’s name on the band. The supply chain is invisible. The hotel receives one beautiful object, ready to place.
Lighting
- Tunable circadian bulbs — warm amber by evening, daylight tone on waking
- Pre-programmed smart timer governing the 48-hour light schedule
- Sunrise simulation lamp replacing the alarm clock
Blue-light management
- Blue-light blocking glasses — co-branded case, guest keeps them
- Device curfew pouch and protocol card for the bedside
Sensory ritual
- Evening magnesium glycinate sachets
- Chamomile and ashwagandha botanical tea programme
- Lavender pulse-point roll-on
- Two-blend diffuser — energising for morning, calming for evening
The protocol
- Linen-covered guided journal with sleep diary and intention prompts
- QR-linked guest portal with the digital protocol and post-stay email sequence
- Optional sleep-tracking ring with a guest report generated on departure
The package
Considered objects. Recognised on sight.
Every element of the package is designed to be felt before it is read. The supply chain is consolidated at a single fulfilment partner. The hotel receives one coherent delivery — a luxury object, not a logistics problem.
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One-time · Per property
The Master Onboarding Case
A rigid, linen-covered case in forest green with debossed wordmark and gold interior tissue. Holds the permanent technology. Ships once, at onboarding.
Inside
- Tunable circadian bulbs (×4)
- Pre-programmed smart timer
- Sunrise simulation lamp
- Staff protocol card (laminated)
- Setup guide and partner portal credentials
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Per booking · Two guests
The Per-Guest Reset Pouch
A structured envelope in warm ivory card stock with gold foil mark and the guest’s name on a printed band. Placed by staff before check-in.
Inside
- Blue-light blocking glasses (co-branded case)
- Magnesium glycinate sachets (×4)
- Chamomile and ashwagandha tea programme (×4)
- Lavender pulse-point roll-on
- Diffuser blends — morning and evening
- Premium silk sleep mask
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Per guest
The Welcome Card
A single heavyweight card, forest green with white type. Opens the protocol and sets the tone of the weekend.
Inside
- Quote: Your body knows what it needs. This weekend, we give it the conditions.
- Signed WELL Cômpass, with the property’s co-brand mark
- QR code to the digital protocol
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Per guest · Take-home
The Glasses Case
A co-branded rigid case carrying the property and WELL Cômpass marks together. The guest keeps it — the object they handle most in the months after the stay.
Inside
- Blue-light blocking glasses (TrueDark or Ra Optics)
- Microfibre cleaning cloth, branded
- Card insert with the evening curfew protocol
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Per guest · Take-home
The Reset Journal
Linen-covered with gold foil stamp. A 48-hour guided protocol in print — designed to be kept.
Inside
- Sleep diary across both nights
- Light exposure log
- Morning intention and evening wind-down prompts
- 7-day post-stay continuation pages
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Per guest · Digital
The Guest Portal
A QR code printed inside the pouch opens a password-protected portal extending the reset into the working week.
Inside
- Digital version of the 48-hour protocol
- Personal light exposure tracker
- 7-day post-stay email sequence
- Optional sleep-tracking ring report (premium tier)
The partnership
We do not operate on site. The hotel never sees the supply chain.
WELL Cômpass provides the technology, the brand, and the training. The property provides the rooms, the setting, and the staff. The system is designed to run inside an existing operation without adding headcount.
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Onboarding
A single, branded case ships to the property containing all permanent technology. A 90-minute remote training brings the wellness and concierge teams through the science and the room setup. The system is ready inside one week.
02
Operation
Each booking triggers a per-guest pouch — consumables, journal, glasses — shipped from our fulfilment partner directly to the property. Staff place the kit before check-in. We handle the supply chain. The property handles the welcome.
03
Listing
We write and manage the listing copy across Mr & Mrs Smith, Tablet Hotels, Secret Escapes, and an embedded landing page on the property’s direct booking site. The programme appears as a co-branded weekend experience.
What the property gains
A wellness proposition that is built in, not bolted on.
A differentiated weekend offering grounded in peer-reviewed science — credible to the wellness-curious guest and defensible to the GM. Premium room-rate uplift on every booking, and a guest who leaves measurably better than they arrived.
Listings managed by WELL Cômpass across Mr & Mrs Smith, Tablet Hotels, and Secret Escapes — appearing as a wellness experience add-on rather than a new property, reducing adoption friction for hotels already on those platforms.
Pilot cohort: we are onboarding the first ten properties at a reduced programme fee in exchange for case-study participation.
The properties we work with
Independently owned or boutique groups. Fifteen to eighty rooms. Wellness-curious at the leadership level.
You do not need to be spa-led to host this programme. You need a guest profile that values restoration and a leadership team willing to commit a small number of weekends a year to delivering it properly. The rest of the operation we provide.
For property teams
A discovery conversation, not a sales call.
Thirty minutes is usually enough to know whether your property and guest profile are a natural fit for the programme. If they are, we share the full kit specification, the training schedule, and the path to a pilot weekend.
Enquire as a property