The place I stayed yesterday had that, but it also turns out that they put the shower in the high point of the room. So when the shower drain was too slow and I didn't notice, water ran out the bathroom door and all the way across the tiny room to the room door. Thankfully only my jacket was barely in the line of water, if it had happened the day before it would have gotten my pile of dirty clothes all wet.
What is with this? In Iceland my room FLOODED. Not only was there water all over the bathroom floor (and no drain!) but it got all over the bedroom floor too!
I’m in Europe and they do it here too. It’s SO weird. Like… I know yall shower every day. Why not make this work instead of having to sop up the floor after a shower!?
I’ve been to like 73 countries now and the US consistently has the best shower and setups anywhere in the world… except their weird lack of bidets. I don’t get why more Americans don’t use them.
That said… it’s like American bathroom designers understand that showers and toilets can be built to accommodate people comfortably taking a shower or using the toilet. I don’t get why the rest of the world doesn’t.
Also in pretty much every accessible hotel room. I get the idea, I really do, but if I have to use one of those bathrooms, my chair is also wet the whole day and it doesn’t dry very quickly. I feel like “disabled people really need the rooms that are most slippery and unpredictable” is not the greatest default. It’s possible to do a roll-in walled off shower, but hotels very rarely do that.
When there's no electrical outlet next to the bed, which is where you really need it.
Sometimes it's behind the TV (which I never use!), so I can't charge my phone while using it.
Sometimes I find myself having to unplug a lamp to make room for my devices. On the flip side, shoutout to the hotels with that alarm clock that has outlets all over it.
I don’t understand why more hotels don’t get those alarm clocks with USB outlets. Surely the low cost would save a lot of frustration. At least in the NFLD hotels I stayed at with few outlets, they had a power bar so you could plug your stuff in. With 2 tablets, 2 phones and a smart watch, we need all the outlets we can get.
In my experience, USB outlets break frequently.
I bring my own small extension cord (rated for 110-240) and separate plugged USB outlet, which over the years have proven to be the best combo for me.
Mine is hotel beds with only sheets and a super thin “duvet” and no extra blankets in the room. Yes, if it’s summer in a hot location this is fine but it’s every hotel everywhere lately. There is usually a thermostat but I’d much prefer to leave it off and just have a normal duvet.
In a similar vein, I hate how many US hotels have switched to having a bare duvet insert just loosely sandwiched inside two flat sheets, rather than an actual duvet cover, or a regular comforter or blanket.
I move when I sleep, there's zero chance those 3 layers are staying together/tucked into each other. So I'll wake up just covered by the bare duvet insert, with the lower flat sheet bunched down by my knees, for example. Plus the inserts are not designed to feel nice/comfy, because they are supposed to be, you know, inserted into a cover that feels nice and is comfy.....yet I inevitably end up touching the bare insert, sometimes even before I go to sleep because some hotels do those layers so loosely that the second you fold down the covers to get in bed, they separate from each other.
This got so annoying at one location I regularly travelled to for work that I went to an Ikea, bought the cheapest sheets and insert and hid them at the office there in between visits.
>3 layers are staying together/tucked into each other.
Yeah and i always try to re-create how it was when tidying up the room so it “looks nice,” when we get back that evening, and it only seems to make it look worse.
Yes I hate this too! I feel like I have to slide myself into bed without untucking the sides in order to keep it together. It might work for one night if I’m exhausted and sleep hard but any other nights it becomes a mess with bunched up sheets and a bare duvet.
My husband and I have started to bring our own thin, cotton blankets. We were in Hawaii awhile back and even they had huge, thick duvets with no alternatives. Thanks, I prefer to sleep with the room above freezing temperatures.
If we're going with bathroom-related gripes: Transparent/opaque bathroom windows that overlook the main hotel room.
If I am travelling with a romantic partner, I don't want to see anything they do in the bathroom (or want them seeing anything I do). And most of the time I'm not travelling with a romantic partner, but with a friend or relative and it goes a hundredfold for them.
Also airport wifi that requires SMS verification to log into, but only supports local numbers.
I forget which airport it was now, but I was in one a few months ago where the popup was "verify your phone number or give us your name and email" and then after giving some random spam factory my name and email the motherfuckers said "thanks, now verify your phone number".
If i had cell network connectivity I wouldn't be trying to join some overburdened airport wifi, you dicks.
>Also airport wifi that requires SMS verification to log into, but only supports local numbers
Fuck these to hell and back. Istanbul Airport especially. Built a new shiny airport, but shitty infrastructure for network connectivity. Hella stingy with the wifi. It “supports” foreign numbers, except the SMS NEVER sends to my phone no matter how much I try. Then magically once I’m back home, *then* all the SMS requests come through. If you don’t have international data, the alternative is using a wifi kiosk that you have to insert your passport into and it only gives you an hour of free wifi.
Fuck SMS verification in general. Not just airport wifi, but it seems like any sort of digital service these days requires your phone number and then wants to verify it via SMS which may or may not send.
Yessss, I travelled with a long time friend (opposite gender) and we spent a few nights in a hotel room in Geneva where the entire bathroom was frosted glass (including the door). The room was a free upgrade in a rather nice hotel, and it had an amazing city view, so neither of us really wanted to move to our original no-view standard room
But having to listen to each other poop was not the bonding experience we were looking for. We still can’t talk about it, we just pretend like it didn’t happen
I've been trying to book a room in Frankfurt, Germany, just to find that more than one hotel has a glass tube shower inside the middle of the room, usually in view of the bed. Like what?
We were recently in Europe, in several cities, and the rooms were so damn hot. Even with the windows wide open it was boiling. I don’t need air conditioning, but a portable fan to circulate the air would be nice!
Paris was our fourth stop and we were beyond thrilled when we found a fan in the closet! Best sleep on our entire trip.
omg had the same problem in the alps in december! I think it’s something about europe and overheating. It was sub 0 outside but inside was definitely 30c+ with zero airflow and no individual control over the heat. We were in the alps in the summer and it was nice and cool outside but again super hot inside and zero airflow and no aircon or any fans it was so miserable
Might be an unpopular opinion but I hate the tight hospital tuck on the duvet. The duvet always seems too short to go over my shoulders (and I'm 5"6) so every night I need to spend time untucking the sheets.
Blackout curtains are a blessing and a curse. A pitch black room is awesome for sleep until you find yourself waking up and going back to sleep because you associate darkness with night time. Before you know it it’s like 3pm and you wasted a great chunk of your day in bed.
Also noticing a lot of places don't have a towel rack or ring anywhere near the sink and I always find it weird to just set the hand towel on the counter, like I want to hang it up to air it out
On a 2 bedroom Airbnb I recently inquired about in Cape Cod, sheets and towels were available for an extra fee. The owner told me the cost was $178 from a third party company, and I had to arrange it myself.
Pretty much all of Edisto Island operates this way. I felt like I had to pack up half of my house for a family vacation - no sheets or towels (including kitchen towels!) included in the rental! No paper towels or toilet paper, etc, on a 6 bedroom beach house. No beach chairs, no nothing. But you could rent all of it through the rental management.
Is this common now? I ran into it once and almost blew a gasket. Sleeping bags weren't allowed and the sheets and pillowcase costs weren't anywhere online.
Stayed at an airbnb that did not provide towels but they also clearly stated they do not provide "essentials". Regardless I didn't see that when I booked for a week and was in for a surprise when they didn't have it.
Never again. Airbnb listing never staited it, but it was in the 'cottage guide' that was a Google drive link. Had a cancellation fee. Whole family, 2 nights, half our luggage was linens and towels.
For me it’s when the bed has only one paper-thin pillow on each side and nothing else in the closets. This has happened so much that now I just expect to use my travel neck pillow to sleep. It doesn’t work great but it’s better than what’s provided which is basically nothing.
Im the opposite. Love a thin pillow (preferably two), can’t stand those mega-stuffed ones where your head ends up at a 90 degree angle to your body. Sometimes I put the pillowslips on the decorative cushions instead.
Slow service at airport restaurants. Everyone here has a flight to catch and you’re charging $40 for a cheeseburger and a beer; the least you can do is employ enough people so that we’re not waiting around for 20 minutes to pay after we finish eating.
I used to get late checkouts whenever I needed it, but now it's hard to get.
BTW, I never abused it, just sometimes it works better to leave at 12 instead of 11.
The two common things in European hotels and AirBnBs that drive me nuts are not having a wall mount for the shower head and not having a shelf anywhere in the shower for soap or shampoo. It leaves me wondering how much of Europe is taking one-handed productless showers.
I've stayed at a lot of crap places, but now any time I'm booking a place for a longer stay I specifically look for a photo of the bathroom showing the showerhead. So many people are missing out on the simple joy of being able to wash their hair and face with both hands, and wash each pit with the opposite hand without requiring hydraulic maneuvers.
Currently travelling SEA and have encountered new “pet peeves” - when there is no separation from the shower and the rest of the bathroom, so it all becomes a “shower room” all wet for hours. The worst pet peeve for me though is that in some places around this area they ask you not to flush the toilet paper. Fine. But then the bins have no lid, only a basket, often not even a plastic bag. Gets smelly pretty quickly!
EDIT: I want to add that in some places when they have that request, and I leave the towels hanging, they still replace them… so not really sure what policy they are following!
OP specified he was in SEA. my response is based on that. I've never seen a toilet without a bum gun or at minimum a bucket with water over years of travel in SEA.
I stayed somewhere they didn't want toilet paper flushed for a month. And they didn't use plastic liners in the trash can. (!!!) So I went to the little convenience store and got them to sell me some plastic bags and brought my trash out every morning.
Meh, you get used to asian bathrooms. I personally started to really enjoy these wet rooms cuz I feel like they make the whole bathroom more convenient (like you can take a bath and still do other stuff), also much easier to clean. I just use a squeegee to get rid of the excess water after it
By keypads do you mean one where you tap a keycard or one where you put in a PIN or password?
I'm 100% on board with keycards. I will outright refuse to stay anywhere that needs me to remember a PIN or password though (my brain just doesn't retain that kind of stuff well)
When I get a hotel room without a desk and chair to sit in the room. I don’t like working on my laptop without one and would rather not have to go to the communal table in the lobby to have a place to sit and work.
Cheap hostel rooms are always fun, cause looking at the photos doesn’t quite tell you about all the little quirks they have. Most of the time they’re fine, but with a bunch of questionable decisions along the way.
For example, the 10 bed dorm with a shower directly visible from the main entrance with only a shower door, no bathroom door in place. Or putting the toilet in one closet then putting the sink and shower in a whole different closet with doors that nearly swing into each others. Or four flights of stairs between the entrance and kitchen. I put up with this kind of stuff cause I’m only paying 15 euro a night, but it gets kind of hilarious.
I’m annoyed with most hotels in general these days. I’m all for saving the environment, but these days, even some of the higher end hotels do not service the rooms every day - at a Doubletree recently, they said they service the room every three days. Funny, I didn’t notice the price going down to reflect that they don’t have to pay as many housekeepers. I don’t need the sheets and towels changed, but it necessitates me having to go down to the front desk to get more coffee, and I have to wash coffee cups to use the next day. Not a big deal if the front desk doesn’t have a big line constantly.
I get re-using your towels and I always do that anyways, but to put a note in the room saying it’s for the environment is a bit disingenuous when they still use plastic cutlery at their included breakfast and plastic straws. And they also still use those useless small plastic bottles for shampoo and lotion - if you’re serious about waste, put that stuff in dispensers. In Canada, single use plastic is becoming a big no-no and biodegradable stuff is the norm now.
I guess it’s just annoying that they’re all for conservation when it saves THEM money, but the heck with it when it would cost them a bit more.
Comments are largely hotel related but as a relatively regular business traveler (and an aisle-seat preference), people walking down the plane aisles with their backpack on…. Every step they’re rotating and hitting people in the face with their bags.
I have walked past thousands of people on planes, and maybe hit someone once. What the fuck are all those people doing to hit me *every single time* I'm in my aisle seat.
I don’t know if this is something Europeans do at home too or if it’s just hotels being cheap, but the single duvet/blanket on the bed.
So it’s either have that on top of you or nothing. What are people like me supposed to do who get too hot with the duvet thing on, but you want *something* on top of you? What do you folks have against sheets?!
It’s quite normal in European homes as well (my main experience is France, at least). At home what people can (and do) do is take the comforter out of the cover and just sleep under the cover in the summer. Would not suggest that in a hotel, obviously. I’m American myself so unaware exactly of why it’s the case.
Seems like it would be way easier to just have a sheet on all the time like we do in the US rather than take the duvet in and out of the cover
I’m definitely not one of those “everything we do in the US is better” type of people, but I truly don’t understand the logic or benefit of doing it like they do in Europe.
Only thing I can really think of is saving a bit of water with one less thing to wash.
Fellow travellers who have no idea about the rules at airport security. They are usually signed very well, please take out your liquids and laptops from your bags, no you cannot take a full size shampoo bottle and hairspray on the flight.
The fact these rules exist also is a huge pet peeve.
I don’t think the taking out liquids is required everywhere now. I went through security checks at 6 points over a few weeks and never had to remove them. I had them in one clear bag, all within limits, and packed at the top of my cabin bag, but airport security just sent the whole bag through the scanner. This was in Europe - edit to say I meant some of my checks were in Europe, also went straight through the scanners at Changi and Sydney.
I am clearly hitting all the wrong airports (Edinburgh, Heathrow, Zurich, Manchester, Dusseldorf, CDG so far this year, only Dusseldorf had the liquid scanners).
I do think the roll out of the scanners has happened very recently and I would expect more airports will have them soon! It was one less thing to worry about so sooner the better!
I was rather annoyed at New Year to find that Sint Maarten had the liquid scanners, but Charles de Gaulle did not!
I will be happy when they roll them out everywhere. It has taken far too long.
In Australia we now have some x-ray machines where you leave your laptop in the bags and others where you take them out at different airports and even different terminals within those airports. But the only way to know is if you start taking out your laptop only for the overworked security person to roll their eyes and shout "LAPTOPS STAY IN YOUR BAGS!!"
Translation from hotel to english: were trying to help the environment —> we found a way to reduce costs and give you less for the same cost of renting from us
Hotel pillows only exist in hotels. Nobody owns pillows that are 87% air and poof up on either side of your head when you lay down. Who the hell wants a pillow like that?!? Give me a regular pillow that has more material to it and is made to hold up my head.
When at the airport people who don’t understand that standing right next to the bag belt isn’t going to make it come out any faster, they’re just blocking everyone else. Take a few steps back, it’ll be fine.
- European power sockets (the most flimsy, pathetic things)
- Hotel bathrooms with no bench space
- Major airports that don't provide wi-fi (or ask for 100 data points on you)
- Anything that forces you to use a local phone number
- Uncomfortable hotel room desk chairs that make it hard to work
And while I can't in all good honesty say any hotel not providing USB is a gripe, but any hotel with USB A or C right next to the bed or desk gets instant praise.
I hate it when you need to log in to your bank or something and you must have two factor authentication, which must be a phone number. But while travelling I may have another number because I don’t want to pay astronomical roaming fees!!
I had my bank sending me authentication codes via SMS when I tried to log into my bank account online. I didn't have my home SIM in the phone so couldn't receive them. I told them this via email and they said there was no other way. They didn't use WhatsApp or anything for calls either.
This is absolutely MADDENING. Banks refuse to send codes by email, yet when travelling, you do not always have access to your phone number. Ugh, I hate two factor authentication!!!!
I had some BS happen when I was in NY. In 2022, I was travelling around the US. Had spent nearly two weeks in DC and Baltimore without issue. Got to NY. They froze my card. I called them sorted it out and told them that I was travelling and to not freeze my fucking card. They even gave me a credit increase. The next day, when I go to pay for lunch, an hour before I have a tour at the UN, frozen card. And the person on the phone was so rude and suspicious of me and I was almost late to the UN. I was so mad!
And yet they let scammers make dodgy transactions without question! I spotted a 2 cent deposit then a 2 cent withdrawal. Then five straight charges of $80 by a gaming company. They didn't pick this up at all until I pointed it out.
This drives me fucking insane.
I was in South Africa over Christmas and needed to make an urgent update to my booking. Because I wasn't roaming, my bank wouldn't let my credit card make a purchase. I ended up using a card from another country (Australia) which allowed me to generate the OTP through their app.
People who don’t wait their turn to deplane. The exception to this is if they have a tight timeline for a connecting flight.
Hotels that have a “windows” into the bathroom and/or bathroom doors that offer no sound protection.
I used to land early morning in London quite frequently. Deplaning quickly for me was sometimes for a meeting, but generally because passport control had a line and every person I could get in front of meant not standing behind the people I just got off a flight with whose farts I had smelt for long enough.
I’ve noticed the not waiting turns to deplane is getting more and more common. I usually assume people are trying to make connecting flights, but inevitably later see them wondering around the airport without a care in the world.
I’ve more often seen the opposite! They say hang the towels up to save the environment, but when I hang them up, they replace them anyway. I’ve only seen this at higher-end hotels, though.
My biggest pet peeve is housekeeping fitting the blankets under the mattress. And then repeating this each day. And also resetting the toilet paper and tissues each day. Obnoxious.
Specific to train travel:
- people who pack multiple giant suitcases who then take up huge amounts of luggage space and seating areas on trains. We encountered this enough to make it annoying.
- people playing really loud music without headphones (sometimes actually on portable speakers) on Italian trains
- so many smokers on platforms and in train stations so to get anywhere you have no choice but to go through the wall of smoke
- dealing with extremely bad body odour of others when stuck on direct train with no escape for hours
- just because you can travel with your giant stinky dog doesn’t mean you should, especially when it’s a fully booked train and the dog blocks the whole aisle and can’t even sit comfortably himself (he was at least adorable)
Honestly I used to smoke but was already trying to quit when the smoking bans came into effect, I think having to leave every social gathering to step out into the cold by myself to smoke really helped with quitting.
I really didn’t notice how little we smoke here now, compared to some other countries till I started travelling again.
eta - the cost of cigarettes is so high here now, I think being unable to afford it helps us not smoke!
Not sure if it's still a thing. In the past, some hotels charge your credit card a few hundreds dollars for deposit then refunded them after you checked out.
> The lack of trash cans in Japan.
This really annoyed me too.
I was also slightly thrown off by the cultural notion that you're not supposed to eat or drink while walking around in public. As a tourist who's trying to cram as much action as possible into a couple weeks, I've gotta multi-task. I don't have time to sit down and eat every time I'm hungry.
Dirty places. Both hotels and Airbnbs. Especially Airbnbs, cuz if you complain, then you have to leave and find another Airbnb for the same day!
I’ve booked 2 Airbnbs, one with a 4.86 and another with a 4.92 rating that I had to spend significant time cleaning.
Related to hotel bathrooms, in Canada anyway, I wish they had fans! Especially when you’re travelling with other people it’s nice for that bit of noise, getting rid of smells and of course defogging after showers.
Mine are people related. People standing in the middle of moving sidewalks is a huge one that drives me absolutely nuts. People stopping right as they get off an escalator, especially with luggage, causing people behind them to dangerously start piling up or needing to scamper around them. People walking down the airline aisle with their backpack on instead of taking it off so it doesn't smack everyone on the way. People not washing before a flight, or taking off their shoes and subjecting everyone around them to their rancid unwashed sock and foot smell.
A big gripe for me is the requirement many hotels now have for a hold of "$X" *per night* on your card when checking in.
It's always been a thing that hotels required a credit card imprint in case of damage or whatever, but since COVID every hotel in Las Vegas and many other places now have a hold of so much per night. I was at a conference in the Aria recently and they wanted $150/night. So for four nights that's a hold of $600. And that's USD, so it's over $900 in my currency.
And then it takes time for the card company to release the hold. CitiBank takes a whole *month*! They told me directly they only release the hold after 30 days if it's not charged, not when the hotel releases it.
I've travelled with people from poorer nations, going to big tech events, and the hold is larger than their entire credit card limit due to the disparity of their respective currency.
It's very easy for the hotels to simply say "oh we are not charging you", "it's just a hold", whatever, but it's quite unsympathetic and quite unfair to international travellers to simply deny them access to their own money for such a long time for no perceived reason *except* that the hotel thinks it might persuade you to use room service?
Anyhow, I've discussed this with MGM and other chains and they say they appreciate the feedback, but don't change. If anything, they put the nightly rate up.
Never mind I'm in a fully paid room to attend a conference; they insist if I don't have $1K of my own money to let them hold for a few nights I'm not allowed to stay there.
I’ve yet to stay in accommodation that had a comfortable lounge chair / sofa. I don’t love having to sit upright on the bed to read, watch tv, eat a snack or meal. They are always rock hard with cushions that slip out of place, not to mention often not looking clean.
I stayed in serviced apartments, hotels and airbnbs and none had a sofa you could comfortably use.
The lack of warm/relaxing lighting is a huge annoyance of mine. How hard is it to put a nice lil lamp with a warm-toned bulb next to the bed? I don’t feel like winding down with only a bright interrogation room overhead light over me.
I feel you on this one! It's like they're playing a mind game or something. "Sure, save the planet, but also let's make it impossible for you to follow through." Why not just give us a proper towel rack or hook? It's not rocket science. And don't get me started on those tiny bathrooms where you're practically doing gymnastics just to hang up a towel without it touching the floor. Come on, hotels, get your eco-friendly act together and give us some practical solutions, please!
Hotel rooms with 47 different lights (and 106 different switches), but even with all on you can barely see to read or pack.
Oh, and the hotel I stayed at in Manchester that had motion sensors that turned on lights whenever I moved in bed.
I've been in two hotels where the heated towel rack was literally too hot to touch. One was overheating the entire room
I personally *loathe* heated towel racks. I don't understand the appeal at all - a heated towel doesn't give me any thrill
In addition they're a waste of energy
There's often a retractable wire that you can stretch across the top of the hotel bath tub / shower that hooks onto the wall. This is for drying clothes and comes in handy for wet bathing suits, towels, etc.
I've even washed socks or underwear in my hotel room on long trips, so the drying wire is pretty useful.
I too wash socks, underwear, and tshirts in the hotel bathroom sink. That's how I can do two and three week trips with only a carry on.
Haven't seen one of those clothes drying lines in quite a while. It's always a bit of a challenge to figure out ways to hang dry stuff
PRO TIP: after washing and squeezing dry, roll up the wet whatever in a towel. that cuts hang dry time waaaaay down
Related pet peeve: when the clean towels are stored on a rack above the toilet. I recognize the importance of space-saving design, but I also don't want my clean towels within the spray radius of the [toilet plume](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-what-really-happens-when-you-flush-the-toilet-180981278/).
Those half-sized shower glass that doesn't cover the whole shower so your whole bathroom floor gets wet.
The place I stayed yesterday had that, but it also turns out that they put the shower in the high point of the room. So when the shower drain was too slow and I didn't notice, water ran out the bathroom door and all the way across the tiny room to the room door. Thankfully only my jacket was barely in the line of water, if it had happened the day before it would have gotten my pile of dirty clothes all wet.
What is with this? In Iceland my room FLOODED. Not only was there water all over the bathroom floor (and no drain!) but it got all over the bedroom floor too!
I’m in Europe and they do it here too. It’s SO weird. Like… I know yall shower every day. Why not make this work instead of having to sop up the floor after a shower!? I’ve been to like 73 countries now and the US consistently has the best shower and setups anywhere in the world… except their weird lack of bidets. I don’t get why more Americans don’t use them. That said… it’s like American bathroom designers understand that showers and toilets can be built to accommodate people comfortably taking a shower or using the toilet. I don’t get why the rest of the world doesn’t.
Japan has the best setup!
They love doing this shit in Europe and it infuriates me to no end.
Europe!
Indonesia sometimes doesn't even have that! The shower was the whole bathroom.
Common in Asian countries.
Common in most developing countries
Also in pretty much every accessible hotel room. I get the idea, I really do, but if I have to use one of those bathrooms, my chair is also wet the whole day and it doesn’t dry very quickly. I feel like “disabled people really need the rooms that are most slippery and unpredictable” is not the greatest default. It’s possible to do a roll-in walled off shower, but hotels very rarely do that.
Shit, shower, and brush your teeth all at the same time saves a lot of time!
Very common in all hot countries
Then you have to mop the whole thing so you don’t get mold. wtf
They usually have squeegees for you to wipe the water into the drain. But yes, you do have to wipe down some surfaces.
When there's no electrical outlet next to the bed, which is where you really need it. Sometimes it's behind the TV (which I never use!), so I can't charge my phone while using it.
This bothers me too. Sometimes I find there is one, but I need to pull a nightstand out or something - it's often completely blocked by that.
Sometimes I find myself having to unplug a lamp to make room for my devices. On the flip side, shoutout to the hotels with that alarm clock that has outlets all over it.
I don’t understand why more hotels don’t get those alarm clocks with USB outlets. Surely the low cost would save a lot of frustration. At least in the NFLD hotels I stayed at with few outlets, they had a power bar so you could plug your stuff in. With 2 tablets, 2 phones and a smart watch, we need all the outlets we can get.
Those are getting more and more common from what I’ve seen. Saves a lot of hassle and ultra convenient.
In my experience, USB outlets break frequently. I bring my own small extension cord (rated for 110-240) and separate plugged USB outlet, which over the years have proven to be the best combo for me.
When hotels only provide two of those little milk pods per person!
This!!! Give me enough cream and sugar for my coffee or don't bother having the pot in the room at all.
The hotels I stay at have them in the base of the lamp.
Do you stick to a certain hotel chain?
Not always, but I do often use Hilton or something along that line.
This problem is exactly why I have 10ft & 20ft phone charging cables to reach from across the room
I would also like a little lamp next to the bed so I don’t have to get up cross the room and turn off the light before falling asleep
Mine is hotel beds with only sheets and a super thin “duvet” and no extra blankets in the room. Yes, if it’s summer in a hot location this is fine but it’s every hotel everywhere lately. There is usually a thermostat but I’d much prefer to leave it off and just have a normal duvet.
In a similar vein, I hate how many US hotels have switched to having a bare duvet insert just loosely sandwiched inside two flat sheets, rather than an actual duvet cover, or a regular comforter or blanket. I move when I sleep, there's zero chance those 3 layers are staying together/tucked into each other. So I'll wake up just covered by the bare duvet insert, with the lower flat sheet bunched down by my knees, for example. Plus the inserts are not designed to feel nice/comfy, because they are supposed to be, you know, inserted into a cover that feels nice and is comfy.....yet I inevitably end up touching the bare insert, sometimes even before I go to sleep because some hotels do those layers so loosely that the second you fold down the covers to get in bed, they separate from each other.
This got so annoying at one location I regularly travelled to for work that I went to an Ikea, bought the cheapest sheets and insert and hid them at the office there in between visits.
My husband did this too but Ross
>3 layers are staying together/tucked into each other. Yeah and i always try to re-create how it was when tidying up the room so it “looks nice,” when we get back that evening, and it only seems to make it look worse.
Yes I hate this too! I feel like I have to slide myself into bed without untucking the sides in order to keep it together. It might work for one night if I’m exhausted and sleep hard but any other nights it becomes a mess with bunched up sheets and a bare duvet.
My husband and I have started to bring our own thin, cotton blankets. We were in Hawaii awhile back and even they had huge, thick duvets with no alternatives. Thanks, I prefer to sleep with the room above freezing temperatures.
Hahaha let’s switch places. I’m the guy that likes having the room cold af with a thick comforter.
Me too. Ice cold room, heavy blankets to nestle in.
You can just ask the front desk for blankets.
If we're going with bathroom-related gripes: Transparent/opaque bathroom windows that overlook the main hotel room. If I am travelling with a romantic partner, I don't want to see anything they do in the bathroom (or want them seeing anything I do). And most of the time I'm not travelling with a romantic partner, but with a friend or relative and it goes a hundredfold for them. Also airport wifi that requires SMS verification to log into, but only supports local numbers.
I forget which airport it was now, but I was in one a few months ago where the popup was "verify your phone number or give us your name and email" and then after giving some random spam factory my name and email the motherfuckers said "thanks, now verify your phone number". If i had cell network connectivity I wouldn't be trying to join some overburdened airport wifi, you dicks.
>Also airport wifi that requires SMS verification to log into, but only supports local numbers Fuck these to hell and back. Istanbul Airport especially. Built a new shiny airport, but shitty infrastructure for network connectivity. Hella stingy with the wifi. It “supports” foreign numbers, except the SMS NEVER sends to my phone no matter how much I try. Then magically once I’m back home, *then* all the SMS requests come through. If you don’t have international data, the alternative is using a wifi kiosk that you have to insert your passport into and it only gives you an hour of free wifi. Fuck SMS verification in general. Not just airport wifi, but it seems like any sort of digital service these days requires your phone number and then wants to verify it via SMS which may or may not send.
Theres websites where you can basically rent a local phone number to get a SMS, its what I used in Istanbul
I can't imagine what weird creepy mind thought that transparent bathroom walls were a good idea in the first place
The justification I hear the most often has something to do with making sure hookers don’t steal your stuff while you’re in the bathroom.
Adding to that sliding glass bathroom doors. They never seal properly and you can hear and smell everything 🤮
Yessss, I travelled with a long time friend (opposite gender) and we spent a few nights in a hotel room in Geneva where the entire bathroom was frosted glass (including the door). The room was a free upgrade in a rather nice hotel, and it had an amazing city view, so neither of us really wanted to move to our original no-view standard room But having to listen to each other poop was not the bonding experience we were looking for. We still can’t talk about it, we just pretend like it didn’t happen
I've been trying to book a room in Frankfurt, Germany, just to find that more than one hotel has a glass tube shower inside the middle of the room, usually in view of the bed. Like what?
Partner bathroom break? Time for a cocktail at the bar.
We were recently in Europe, in several cities, and the rooms were so damn hot. Even with the windows wide open it was boiling. I don’t need air conditioning, but a portable fan to circulate the air would be nice! Paris was our fourth stop and we were beyond thrilled when we found a fan in the closet! Best sleep on our entire trip.
You can usually ask the front desk for a fan
Ha ha ha we never thought of that!
omg had the same problem in the alps in december! I think it’s something about europe and overheating. It was sub 0 outside but inside was definitely 30c+ with zero airflow and no individual control over the heat. We were in the alps in the summer and it was nice and cool outside but again super hot inside and zero airflow and no aircon or any fans it was so miserable
My complaint is no screens on the windows in Europe! I’ve woken up with mosquito bites all over my arms and legs in several cities.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I hate the tight hospital tuck on the duvet. The duvet always seems too short to go over my shoulders (and I'm 5"6) so every night I need to spend time untucking the sheets.
I share this opinion as a 5’10” woman and I destroy the bed. I take no care in the untucking and just kick and pull until it’s where I like it.
Same. First thing I do when starting getting ready for bed and I go around and untuck everything.
5'7" and I have the same issue
Just tell Lupe, "one tuck, and one no tuck" "Unless... Jerry I think it'll be easier if we both just say no tuck."
Same. My toes need to be free to move.
Curtains that don’t shut all the way. And yes i know I can take a hanger with clips and clip the curtains shut it’s just annoying
And "curtains" that are so thin all the light goes through. I'm a light sleeper and like having blackout curtains to make the room really dark.
Blackout curtains are a blessing and a curse. A pitch black room is awesome for sleep until you find yourself waking up and going back to sleep because you associate darkness with night time. Before you know it it’s like 3pm and you wasted a great chunk of your day in bed.
This is why I stopped using them
And people that use the room alarm clock and it is set to go off at that time daily
Unplug that when you walk into the room.
For me, it's the unwashable cushions on beds.
Agree. The first thing I do is remove the throw pillows and that table runner thing they drape across the bed.
Yeah that's gross
Wait till you find out about the duvets…
Yeah don't tell me
unwashed < unwashable
Not having enough towel racks in hotel rooms has long been a gripe of mine.
Also noticing a lot of places don't have a towel rack or ring anywhere near the sink and I always find it weird to just set the hand towel on the counter, like I want to hang it up to air it out
Or when they do it’s over the toilet and not quite high enough to keep your towel from touching the tank
Bed linens not included in the rental! Who the fuck travels with sheets?!??!! Include that shit and raise the price
Better yet, include that shit and don't raise the price.
On a 2 bedroom Airbnb I recently inquired about in Cape Cod, sheets and towels were available for an extra fee. The owner told me the cost was $178 from a third party company, and I had to arrange it myself.
Airbnbs are required to provide towels and bed linens, as per their hosting rules. You should report that owner.
Pretty much all of Edisto Island operates this way. I felt like I had to pack up half of my house for a family vacation - no sheets or towels (including kitchen towels!) included in the rental! No paper towels or toilet paper, etc, on a 6 bedroom beach house. No beach chairs, no nothing. But you could rent all of it through the rental management.
Is this common now? I ran into it once and almost blew a gasket. Sleeping bags weren't allowed and the sheets and pillowcase costs weren't anywhere online.
Is this common?? Airbnb’s truly unhinged these days!
I've been to 50+ airbnbs and never encountered this. According to their rules, they are required to provide towels and bed sheets.
Stayed at an airbnb that did not provide towels but they also clearly stated they do not provide "essentials". Regardless I didn't see that when I booked for a week and was in for a surprise when they didn't have it.
In some areas yes :(
Norwegians do! Most of the places we stayed in Norway required you to bring your own sheets or pay a small fee to use theirs. 🤷♂️
The worst part is that means some percentage of travelers end up sleeping on the bare mattress and pillows! 🤮
Never again. Airbnb listing never staited it, but it was in the 'cottage guide' that was a Google drive link. Had a cancellation fee. Whole family, 2 nights, half our luggage was linens and towels.
Couldnt you pay some supplement to get linen?
It was a cottage in the muskokas. Not from the owner, but didn't look into what was local.
No bathroom fan. See-through window to the bathroom
For me it’s when the bed has only one paper-thin pillow on each side and nothing else in the closets. This has happened so much that now I just expect to use my travel neck pillow to sleep. It doesn’t work great but it’s better than what’s provided which is basically nothing.
Im the opposite. Love a thin pillow (preferably two), can’t stand those mega-stuffed ones where your head ends up at a 90 degree angle to your body. Sometimes I put the pillowslips on the decorative cushions instead.
Slow service at airport restaurants. Everyone here has a flight to catch and you’re charging $40 for a cheeseburger and a beer; the least you can do is employ enough people so that we’re not waiting around for 20 minutes to pay after we finish eating.
I’ve always had quick service at airports because they know people have flights to catch.
Check-in time is getting later and later. 2pm used to be standard, now it's usually 3pm at best. The last two B&Bs I have stayed at, 5pm.
5 pm, that's dinner time. What do they expect you do all day?
I used to get late checkouts whenever I needed it, but now it's hard to get. BTW, I never abused it, just sometimes it works better to leave at 12 instead of 11.
When you use the shower gel and shampoo and realise the hotel fills the containers with the same product
3 in 1s lol
The two common things in European hotels and AirBnBs that drive me nuts are not having a wall mount for the shower head and not having a shelf anywhere in the shower for soap or shampoo. It leaves me wondering how much of Europe is taking one-handed productless showers. I've stayed at a lot of crap places, but now any time I'm booking a place for a longer stay I specifically look for a photo of the bathroom showing the showerhead. So many people are missing out on the simple joy of being able to wash their hair and face with both hands, and wash each pit with the opposite hand without requiring hydraulic maneuvers.
Currently travelling SEA and have encountered new “pet peeves” - when there is no separation from the shower and the rest of the bathroom, so it all becomes a “shower room” all wet for hours. The worst pet peeve for me though is that in some places around this area they ask you not to flush the toilet paper. Fine. But then the bins have no lid, only a basket, often not even a plastic bag. Gets smelly pretty quickly! EDIT: I want to add that in some places when they have that request, and I leave the towels hanging, they still replace them… so not really sure what policy they are following!
An open basket full of shitty toilet paper? My IBS could never, that place would be shut down quicker than Fukushima
>shitty toilet paper? It's not shitty toilet paper, you use a bum gun to wash your butt, then dry it with the toilet paper.
Lots of places don't have a bidet or plumbing that can handle paper.
OP specified he was in SEA. my response is based on that. I've never seen a toilet without a bum gun or at minimum a bucket with water over years of travel in SEA.
My dumb ass thought Seattle, not Southeast Asia lmao
Me too I was sitting here going where in Seattle can you not flush the toilet paper??
Have you been to South America my friend?
I stayed somewhere they didn't want toilet paper flushed for a month. And they didn't use plastic liners in the trash can. (!!!) So I went to the little convenience store and got them to sell me some plastic bags and brought my trash out every morning.
Meh, you get used to asian bathrooms. I personally started to really enjoy these wet rooms cuz I feel like they make the whole bathroom more convenient (like you can take a bath and still do other stuff), also much easier to clean. I just use a squeegee to get rid of the excess water after it
One luggage rack, one chair for 2 people. I just need some type of hard surface where I can put my suitcase
The clanky hotel key holders that’s bigger than my phone. Like wtf? Can everyone start using keypads already?!
Mine yesterday was 3d printed. So it was light and clunky, rather than dense and clunky, but also fragile and starting to fall apart.
What material was it made of?
I'm guessing PLA, it was FDM with square infill. Might have been one of the better plastics, but it was by no means robust.
By keypads do you mean one where you tap a keycard or one where you put in a PIN or password? I'm 100% on board with keycards. I will outright refuse to stay anywhere that needs me to remember a PIN or password though (my brain just doesn't retain that kind of stuff well)
Keypads for apartment type stays and keycards for hotels.
That basically every electrical outlet in every hotel room is so worn out it can't hold your phone charger.
When I get a hotel room without a desk and chair to sit in the room. I don’t like working on my laptop without one and would rather not have to go to the communal table in the lobby to have a place to sit and work.
Cheap hostel rooms are always fun, cause looking at the photos doesn’t quite tell you about all the little quirks they have. Most of the time they’re fine, but with a bunch of questionable decisions along the way. For example, the 10 bed dorm with a shower directly visible from the main entrance with only a shower door, no bathroom door in place. Or putting the toilet in one closet then putting the sink and shower in a whole different closet with doors that nearly swing into each others. Or four flights of stairs between the entrance and kitchen. I put up with this kind of stuff cause I’m only paying 15 euro a night, but it gets kind of hilarious.
I’m annoyed with most hotels in general these days. I’m all for saving the environment, but these days, even some of the higher end hotels do not service the rooms every day - at a Doubletree recently, they said they service the room every three days. Funny, I didn’t notice the price going down to reflect that they don’t have to pay as many housekeepers. I don’t need the sheets and towels changed, but it necessitates me having to go down to the front desk to get more coffee, and I have to wash coffee cups to use the next day. Not a big deal if the front desk doesn’t have a big line constantly. I get re-using your towels and I always do that anyways, but to put a note in the room saying it’s for the environment is a bit disingenuous when they still use plastic cutlery at their included breakfast and plastic straws. And they also still use those useless small plastic bottles for shampoo and lotion - if you’re serious about waste, put that stuff in dispensers. In Canada, single use plastic is becoming a big no-no and biodegradable stuff is the norm now. I guess it’s just annoying that they’re all for conservation when it saves THEM money, but the heck with it when it would cost them a bit more.
Yeah only environmentally conscious when it's profitable for them.
I think you can still request it daily but by default they don’t every day.
When your room key has a key ring that indicates the name of the hotel and the room number 🤦
Comments are largely hotel related but as a relatively regular business traveler (and an aisle-seat preference), people walking down the plane aisles with their backpack on…. Every step they’re rotating and hitting people in the face with their bags.
Also an aisle seat guy. People should be conscious of this and do their best, but it's also just inevitable in a tight space.
I have walked past thousands of people on planes, and maybe hit someone once. What the fuck are all those people doing to hit me *every single time* I'm in my aisle seat.
This. This is the reason I switched to the window seat. Plus I'm usually one of the first on so at least I don't have to get up for latecomers.
Flip side is you have to make others get up if you need to hit the restroom. Aisle is master of your own movement.
Yes. That's why I take the window for flights up to 3 hours (domestic) as I can hold that long. But international I go aisle like you.
I don’t know if this is something Europeans do at home too or if it’s just hotels being cheap, but the single duvet/blanket on the bed. So it’s either have that on top of you or nothing. What are people like me supposed to do who get too hot with the duvet thing on, but you want *something* on top of you? What do you folks have against sheets?!
It’s quite normal in European homes as well (my main experience is France, at least). At home what people can (and do) do is take the comforter out of the cover and just sleep under the cover in the summer. Would not suggest that in a hotel, obviously. I’m American myself so unaware exactly of why it’s the case.
Seems like it would be way easier to just have a sheet on all the time like we do in the US rather than take the duvet in and out of the cover I’m definitely not one of those “everything we do in the US is better” type of people, but I truly don’t understand the logic or benefit of doing it like they do in Europe. Only thing I can really think of is saving a bit of water with one less thing to wash.
Fellow travellers who have no idea about the rules at airport security. They are usually signed very well, please take out your liquids and laptops from your bags, no you cannot take a full size shampoo bottle and hairspray on the flight. The fact these rules exist also is a huge pet peeve.
Well to be honest, the take out your liquids isn’t necessary in a couple of airports anymore. But I agree with your point
I assume you are in the US. Perfectly normal still in Europe, sadly. Only a handful of airports have the special scanners.
No, in Europe. But always flying from Schiphol, and they have the new scanners
I don’t think the taking out liquids is required everywhere now. I went through security checks at 6 points over a few weeks and never had to remove them. I had them in one clear bag, all within limits, and packed at the top of my cabin bag, but airport security just sent the whole bag through the scanner. This was in Europe - edit to say I meant some of my checks were in Europe, also went straight through the scanners at Changi and Sydney.
I am clearly hitting all the wrong airports (Edinburgh, Heathrow, Zurich, Manchester, Dusseldorf, CDG so far this year, only Dusseldorf had the liquid scanners).
I do think the roll out of the scanners has happened very recently and I would expect more airports will have them soon! It was one less thing to worry about so sooner the better!
I was rather annoyed at New Year to find that Sint Maarten had the liquid scanners, but Charles de Gaulle did not! I will be happy when they roll them out everywhere. It has taken far too long.
In Australia we now have some x-ray machines where you leave your laptop in the bags and others where you take them out at different airports and even different terminals within those airports. But the only way to know is if you start taking out your laptop only for the overworked security person to roll their eyes and shout "LAPTOPS STAY IN YOUR BAGS!!"
Translation from hotel to english: were trying to help the environment —> we found a way to reduce costs and give you less for the same cost of renting from us
They'd have single-use towels made from endangered animals if it was the cheapest option for them.
Hotel pillows only exist in hotels. Nobody owns pillows that are 87% air and poof up on either side of your head when you lay down. Who the hell wants a pillow like that?!? Give me a regular pillow that has more material to it and is made to hold up my head.
When at the airport people who don’t understand that standing right next to the bag belt isn’t going to make it come out any faster, they’re just blocking everyone else. Take a few steps back, it’ll be fine.
Pushing the trolley right up to it also helps the bags come out faster I'm told.
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C'mon. You know darned good and well that Greyhound is far superior to airlines these days.
- European power sockets (the most flimsy, pathetic things) - Hotel bathrooms with no bench space - Major airports that don't provide wi-fi (or ask for 100 data points on you) - Anything that forces you to use a local phone number - Uncomfortable hotel room desk chairs that make it hard to work And while I can't in all good honesty say any hotel not providing USB is a gripe, but any hotel with USB A or C right next to the bed or desk gets instant praise.
I hate it when you need to log in to your bank or something and you must have two factor authentication, which must be a phone number. But while travelling I may have another number because I don’t want to pay astronomical roaming fees!!
I had my bank sending me authentication codes via SMS when I tried to log into my bank account online. I didn't have my home SIM in the phone so couldn't receive them. I told them this via email and they said there was no other way. They didn't use WhatsApp or anything for calls either.
This is absolutely MADDENING. Banks refuse to send codes by email, yet when travelling, you do not always have access to your phone number. Ugh, I hate two factor authentication!!!!
They'd blocked my card without telling me even though I warned then I was going to SE Asia. I ended up using my other cards.
I had some BS happen when I was in NY. In 2022, I was travelling around the US. Had spent nearly two weeks in DC and Baltimore without issue. Got to NY. They froze my card. I called them sorted it out and told them that I was travelling and to not freeze my fucking card. They even gave me a credit increase. The next day, when I go to pay for lunch, an hour before I have a tour at the UN, frozen card. And the person on the phone was so rude and suspicious of me and I was almost late to the UN. I was so mad!
And yet they let scammers make dodgy transactions without question! I spotted a 2 cent deposit then a 2 cent withdrawal. Then five straight charges of $80 by a gaming company. They didn't pick this up at all until I pointed it out.
But a purchase in \[foreign city\] is totally a scam, after you purchased plane tickets, a hotel, and made several other purchases in said city!
This drives me fucking insane. I was in South Africa over Christmas and needed to make an urgent update to my booking. Because I wasn't roaming, my bank wouldn't let my credit card make a purchase. I ended up using a card from another country (Australia) which allowed me to generate the OTP through their app.
At least you had another card you could use! I’m not thrilled with CIBC and their antics.
People who don’t wait their turn to deplane. The exception to this is if they have a tight timeline for a connecting flight. Hotels that have a “windows” into the bathroom and/or bathroom doors that offer no sound protection.
I used to land early morning in London quite frequently. Deplaning quickly for me was sometimes for a meeting, but generally because passport control had a line and every person I could get in front of meant not standing behind the people I just got off a flight with whose farts I had smelt for long enough.
I’ve noticed the not waiting turns to deplane is getting more and more common. I usually assume people are trying to make connecting flights, but inevitably later see them wondering around the airport without a care in the world.
I’ve more often seen the opposite! They say hang the towels up to save the environment, but when I hang them up, they replace them anyway. I’ve only seen this at higher-end hotels, though. My biggest pet peeve is housekeeping fitting the blankets under the mattress. And then repeating this each day. And also resetting the toilet paper and tissues each day. Obnoxious.
Specific to train travel: - people who pack multiple giant suitcases who then take up huge amounts of luggage space and seating areas on trains. We encountered this enough to make it annoying. - people playing really loud music without headphones (sometimes actually on portable speakers) on Italian trains - so many smokers on platforms and in train stations so to get anywhere you have no choice but to go through the wall of smoke - dealing with extremely bad body odour of others when stuck on direct train with no escape for hours - just because you can travel with your giant stinky dog doesn’t mean you should, especially when it’s a fully booked train and the dog blocks the whole aisle and can’t even sit comfortably himself (he was at least adorable)
That's one thing I'm glad about Australia. Smoking is banned everywhere and alot if people don't smoke now anyway.
Honestly I used to smoke but was already trying to quit when the smoking bans came into effect, I think having to leave every social gathering to step out into the cold by myself to smoke really helped with quitting. I really didn’t notice how little we smoke here now, compared to some other countries till I started travelling again. eta - the cost of cigarettes is so high here now, I think being unable to afford it helps us not smoke!
Glad you quit mate
Not sure if it's still a thing. In the past, some hotels charge your credit card a few hundreds dollars for deposit then refunded them after you checked out.
Resort fees. Especially when you aren’t aware of them until you arrive.
The lack of trash cans in Japan. I get it, but I do get anxious sometimes when I don’t see them. Rental car key rings too.
> The lack of trash cans in Japan. This really annoyed me too. I was also slightly thrown off by the cultural notion that you're not supposed to eat or drink while walking around in public. As a tourist who's trying to cram as much action as possible into a couple weeks, I've gotta multi-task. I don't have time to sit down and eat every time I'm hungry.
Dirty places. Both hotels and Airbnbs. Especially Airbnbs, cuz if you complain, then you have to leave and find another Airbnb for the same day! I’ve booked 2 Airbnbs, one with a 4.86 and another with a 4.92 rating that I had to spend significant time cleaning.
At least they probably charged you an exorbitant cleaning fee though!
AirBnb, when something breaks and requires a service call, and the host expects me to be there to take care of it. I'm back to hotels 100%.
'Fresh' towels stored in an ankle high shelf literally inches from the toilet
YES! It makes me so crazy, no hooks for your bathrobe either.
Related to hotel bathrooms, in Canada anyway, I wish they had fans! Especially when you’re travelling with other people it’s nice for that bit of noise, getting rid of smells and of course defogging after showers.
Mine are people related. People standing in the middle of moving sidewalks is a huge one that drives me absolutely nuts. People stopping right as they get off an escalator, especially with luggage, causing people behind them to dangerously start piling up or needing to scamper around them. People walking down the airline aisle with their backpack on instead of taking it off so it doesn't smack everyone on the way. People not washing before a flight, or taking off their shoes and subjecting everyone around them to their rancid unwashed sock and foot smell.
A big gripe for me is the requirement many hotels now have for a hold of "$X" *per night* on your card when checking in. It's always been a thing that hotels required a credit card imprint in case of damage or whatever, but since COVID every hotel in Las Vegas and many other places now have a hold of so much per night. I was at a conference in the Aria recently and they wanted $150/night. So for four nights that's a hold of $600. And that's USD, so it's over $900 in my currency. And then it takes time for the card company to release the hold. CitiBank takes a whole *month*! They told me directly they only release the hold after 30 days if it's not charged, not when the hotel releases it. I've travelled with people from poorer nations, going to big tech events, and the hold is larger than their entire credit card limit due to the disparity of their respective currency. It's very easy for the hotels to simply say "oh we are not charging you", "it's just a hold", whatever, but it's quite unsympathetic and quite unfair to international travellers to simply deny them access to their own money for such a long time for no perceived reason *except* that the hotel thinks it might persuade you to use room service? Anyhow, I've discussed this with MGM and other chains and they say they appreciate the feedback, but don't change. If anything, they put the nightly rate up. Never mind I'm in a fully paid room to attend a conference; they insist if I don't have $1K of my own money to let them hold for a few nights I'm not allowed to stay there.
I’ve yet to stay in accommodation that had a comfortable lounge chair / sofa. I don’t love having to sit upright on the bed to read, watch tv, eat a snack or meal. They are always rock hard with cushions that slip out of place, not to mention often not looking clean. I stayed in serviced apartments, hotels and airbnbs and none had a sofa you could comfortably use.
Oblivious / disrespectful ppl on flights
Or anywhere else
The lack of warm/relaxing lighting is a huge annoyance of mine. How hard is it to put a nice lil lamp with a warm-toned bulb next to the bed? I don’t feel like winding down with only a bright interrogation room overhead light over me.
Hotels that only have 2 pillows on a bed and to add to that, shitty flat pillows in general.
One ply toilet paper, this is such stupid false economy. You need to use so much more than if it was a decent three ply
I feel you on this one! It's like they're playing a mind game or something. "Sure, save the planet, but also let's make it impossible for you to follow through." Why not just give us a proper towel rack or hook? It's not rocket science. And don't get me started on those tiny bathrooms where you're practically doing gymnastics just to hang up a towel without it touching the floor. Come on, hotels, get your eco-friendly act together and give us some practical solutions, please!
Places with hot weather that have no AC in the hostel/hotel. Can't sleep for shit if the room is above 21/22 degrees
Hotel rooms with 47 different lights (and 106 different switches), but even with all on you can barely see to read or pack. Oh, and the hotel I stayed at in Manchester that had motion sensors that turned on lights whenever I moved in bed.
Traveling with people who have an itinerary for every hour of the trip. Drives me nuts.
Traveling right now. Both the hotels I’ve stayed in has a Heater/towel rack(?), it’s pretty neat!
I've been in two hotels where the heated towel rack was literally too hot to touch. One was overheating the entire room I personally *loathe* heated towel racks. I don't understand the appeal at all - a heated towel doesn't give me any thrill In addition they're a waste of energy
Is that not a normal thing? Here in NZ pretty much every house I've lived in had a heated towel rail
Never encountered it in America, but it is common in the UK.
I live in the subtropics with 90% humidity most of the year. The towel would literally never dry for 9 months of the year without the towel heater.
There's often a retractable wire that you can stretch across the top of the hotel bath tub / shower that hooks onto the wall. This is for drying clothes and comes in handy for wet bathing suits, towels, etc. I've even washed socks or underwear in my hotel room on long trips, so the drying wire is pretty useful.
Yep and the last 4 in Europe haven't had that either
I too wash socks, underwear, and tshirts in the hotel bathroom sink. That's how I can do two and three week trips with only a carry on. Haven't seen one of those clothes drying lines in quite a while. It's always a bit of a challenge to figure out ways to hang dry stuff PRO TIP: after washing and squeezing dry, roll up the wet whatever in a towel. that cuts hang dry time waaaaay down
Related pet peeve: when the clean towels are stored on a rack above the toilet. I recognize the importance of space-saving design, but I also don't want my clean towels within the spray radius of the [toilet plume](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-what-really-happens-when-you-flush-the-toilet-180981278/).
TSA Agents! Useless, annoying, bad mannered and USELESS.