Hotel Room Idiosyncracies

[BlacKnox]

Biggest peeve travelling outside Japan is the lack of washlets/ bidets on toilets. I know it sounds a bit rich but having them at work & home, you get used to the little fellas .

 

[NM]

Biggest peeve travelling outside Japan is the lack of washlets/ bidets on toilets. I know it sounds a bit rich but having them at work & home, you get used to the little fellas .

Then you need to try to Kuala Lumpur Hilton .

 

[cssaus]

My peeve is being given a room that has an inter-connection to another room.

A recent incident occured when I was staying at the Marrott in Singapore. I had an early morning wake-up call as I was having to catch the early flt to Sydney. At around 4.00am I hear this noise coming thru the door of the inter-connecting room and it became obvious that some American was entertaining two Chinese girls (if you get my drift!). It was still going on at 5.30am so I got up had a cold shower, vacated the room and slid a note under the door of the adjacent room thanking them for them entertainment and checked out the hotel.

I now make sure I don't have interconnecting rooms anymore...I'm getting too old for the entertainment!!

 

[Guest]

oh...the jokes i could make ...

those interconnecting doors sure are a pain, especially when they arn't locked!

 

[Bob]

Bob,

surely the aches are not just due to being in Saskatoon ... fine place that it is ...

indeed

 

[Warks]

Ah now here's a whinge session I can relate to!

Is it just me or are ironing board covers designed to be a slippery as possibly so that no matter which way you put a shirt on them it slips off??

The lack of a phone port on the desk is a favourite gripe! Unlike NM I hate having to work with the laptop on the bed but when the phone's there and I forget to pack the longer cord that's where I end up.

Room temperature! Why the hell do rooms have to be like a furnace in winter and a freezer in summer? US hotels are the worst for this but also common elsewhere. I'd prefer to open a window. Made that mistake once in Germany where there was only a thick feather doona on the bed and the room was set at 27C! If I adjusted it down it seemed to magically work its way back up! Then I opened the window but discovered I was about 100 m from the busiest Austobahn in Europe! A truck every 3 seconds I think was the average...

Showers where you wait and wait and wait for the hot to arrive... happens more in country motels I'll have to say. I have had a few occasions where it hasn't come at all.

Incomprehensible shower operation: you know what I mean! A weird lever and a dial plus a knob you can turn at all angles... these things are way too common. Plus why on earth do you have to push that button to stop the water going into the bath and divert it to the shower? What's wrong with two systems?

Enough whingeing for now [takes Bex, has a lie down - hey what's this lump in the mattress??]

 

[icarus]

Oooo - just discovered this - *so* much to say!...

Echo all the complaints re power points,and Karen's about the standard hotel hairdryers that are never powerful enough.

Also, most hotel rooms seem to have really poor lighting - just lamps placed around here and there, but no way of getting the whole room properly lit. I also want a well lit mirror in the bathroom, and a vanity that is not so pointlessly wide that I have to use a telescope to put my makeup on. And a decent showerhead.

Radio alarms that are hard to figure out (just give us a bog standard alarm clock, guys! Who's actually listening to the radio on that thing?).

And hotel rooms which make you use your key card to access power, airconditioning etc. This might be OK in a two star hotel but I've seen it in hotels that rate themselves 4 - 4.5 star. On a recent stay in the Sheraton Chicago you actually had to have the deadlock latched in order to get aircon. I hate that if I want to go out for an hour or so I have to come back to a hot room.

Oh, and fresh milk!

Phew - that feels good!

 

[infoworks]

I hate that they "wash" the glasses in the bathroom sink.

 

[oz_mark]

Irons that have two temparatures - Off and so hot that an imprint of an iron is instantly burnt into your shirt

14 inch TV's (and then they charge $15 bucks to watch some 6 month old movie on it). Remotes that make you study just how to get a free to air TV station

Bizarre Lighting controls

 

[icarus]

I hate that they "wash" the glasses in the bathroom sink.

At the convention I attended at the Chicago Sheraton, one of the speakers was discussing the dead-end jobs she held in her youth, including hotel maid. She warned us never to use a hotel coffee-maker or glasses, as sometimes maids "clean" then with the same cloth they've used on the bathroom.

As that particular hotel has a coffee maker and accoutrements oddly placed in the bathroom, there were a lot of queasy-looking delegates.

 

[JohnK]

I only hope that the hotel room I am staying in has what I consider the bare essentials.

• Shower/bath
  Clean towels
  Air conditioning
  fridge that works
  comfortable bed to sleep/lay on
  a tv with at least one sports channel

I normally only ever stay in 2-2.5 star places when I am holidaying and the service is not that flash. On the odd occassion I could swear the sheets haven't been changed from previous guest. If I get in late at night normally I just sleep on the bed cover. There was this one time that the bin was not emptied when I checked into the room. It just makes you wonder what else they don't do. I hardly ever use the glasses they provide just buy bottled water, beers, soft drinks (sometimes in can) and drink straight from the bottle. :roll: I just don't trust the glasses they provide. I have been known to drink scotch and coke from the endless supply of buddies I buy. But then again most of my holidays are just a blurrrrrr.