Louis XIV of France was a busy man, but he didn't have to worry about getting up in the morning. His valet woke him up at 8.30 and important friend were than allowed to come into his room, where they could watch him wash and have breakfast. On some days when Louis was feeling sleepy, he didn't get up all and he conducted the day's business from his bed.
Astronauts on the first lunar mission in the 1960 and 1970 had big problem getting a good night's sleep. They had no hammocks in the lunar module and they had to sleep on the hard floor. They weren't allowed to take off their space suits because they took too long to get them back on. It was very difficult to get into a comfortable position..
When people in Shakespeare's time stayed at an inn, they had to share their beds with complete strangers. When a rich traveller arrived at a busy hostel, he could take the place in bed of a poorer person. However, there was one inn in the a small town of Ware where poorer travellers didn't need to get out of bed. The inn had a huge bed for 8 people
After their wedding in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a week in bed at the Amsterdam Hilton hotel as a protest against the war in Vietnam. They wanted to repeat the protest two months later in the US, but Lennon couldn't get an American visa because he had a conviction for drugs. As a result, the couple had to go to Montreal..
Political refugee, Alfred Mehran, lost his travel document in Paris when he was on his way to London. Mehran wasn't allowed to through passport control at Charles de Gaulle airport, so he lounge and stayed there for 11 years until new documents finally arrived. When the documents arrived, Mahran wasn't sure he wanted to go home after all...