Apart from luxury resort experiences, stay on boat holidays or stay with friends, I have spent a lot of nights in hotels as a apart of my profession. And of course there are inevitably some things I don’t like about some of those hotels. My top 10 hotel hates:
1. Hotels charging over the odds for internet connections.
2. Hidden plug in power points – I’ve paid a lot of money for this room, why do I have to crawl around under the furniture to plug in my laptop or phone charger?
3. Unstealable coat hangers – I’ve never had an urge to steal hotel coat hangers, but with these I can’t hang a shirt to drip dry from the shower rail.
4. Mystery light switches – where on earth is the switch to turn on that light? Or even more annoying to turned the damned thing off?
5. Lousy lighting – having found how to turn the lights on I still need a head torch to read in bed.
6. Hotel Staff using unfamiliar language at the reception – when asked for something, whispering between each other in foreign language at my presence makes me feel like I’ve being cheated.
7. Preset alarms – the last guest to use this room had to get up at 3:30 am to get to the airport for a pre-dawn flight. So guess what happens to me at 3:30 am?
8. The environment, what’s that? – I come back to the room and find every light turned on, the air-con set to sub-zero and the TV on with the volume cranked up high.
9. Floor getting wet – water dripping out of the shower curtain making the whole bath room floor damp while in the shower.
10.The packed minibar – every corner of the fridge is packed with overpriced drinks and snacks, leaving no room to squeeze my own water bottle in. In this digital era at least I don’t have to squeeze film in as well.
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