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PRINCESS Cruises has scientifically proven something we all knew anyway - everyone would like a bit more sleep.

With the aim of looking at New Year’s resolutions, the cruise line commissioned the 2016 Princess Cruises Sleep Survey, which made the groundbreaking finding that 57% of Americans would prefer to get more shuteye than go to the gym.

Other sacrifices some of the 1,011 respondents were prepared to make included foregoing a spa treatment (38%), a night on the town (45%) or even sex (31%), just so they could sleep better.

The poll also found one of the main problems keeping people awake was their partner, with snoring, nudging and kicking cited as problems for almost 70% of survey participants.

Princess Cruises helpfully pointed out that for those who do want to get a bit of extra nap time, it’s rolling out more than 44,000 beds fleetwide, with the new Princess Luxury Bed to be installed in every stateroom on every ship by 2018.