What you hate about hotels

[NotAllThere]

In a recent hotel stay

1. Only 2 pillows that compressed to 3mm, actually may have been 1 mm each , when I put my head on them. Found out at the end of my stay that they actually pride themselves on having 5 different pillow types available. They certainly didn't advertise the fact.
2. No tea or coffee facilities in the room. Bottle of water, end of.
...

Typical of foreign establishments. Each country seems to have their own (wrong) idea about what makes a good pillow. We always take a travel kettle and tea-bags with us.

[Mich the Tester]

I prefer a mixer tap personally

Fair enough; that could be justified under a 'personal preference' clause, but other than that, let's just stick to the basic functions of hot and cold taps and wash basins, without great flights of pseudo-design fantasy like this;



or this;



or this nonsense;

[d000hg]

Typical of foreign establishments. Each country seems to have their own (wrong) idea about what makes a good pillow. We always take a travel kettle and tea-bags with us.

They sound even less comfortable

Is that a combined basin/urinal?

[Mich the Tester]

Is that a combined basin/urinal?

Probably not, but I think you could justify pissing on it.

[darmstadt]

I've never ever been confused by a tap.

WHS +1. Person who wrote that must be a ****wit of the highest degree...

[darmstadt]

A lot of that is bollocks, probably written by people who stay a few nights a year in hotels. Over the last 7 years I've spent at least 4 nights a week in hotels and prior to that for 5 years at least 2-3 nights a week in hotels all over the world. I think I've seen nearly everything and put up with some tulip and most of the crap written there is just that, crap...

[GreenLabel]

Or maybe you need to rethink your choice of crappy cheap T-shirt, or else buy one five sizes too large and shrink-wash it first yourself.

If they were crappy cheap T-shirts I wouldn't have minded!

[oscarose]

Those that stop you inviting hookers over for dinner.

[chef]

Why can't hotels put an empty pint sized glass so I can fill it with water and have it next to my bed at night? I've yet to come across a hotel that offers this simple concept without requesting it. Instead you get either 2 glass thimble sized glasses that hold a mouthful each or even worse 2 plastic cups that crush at night when I forget what they're made of and grab it in the dark.

[NickFitz]

Stayed in the Radisson Hampshire on Leicester Square the other year when I was attending a BarCamp London unconference at Capital Radio (where I'd just finished a contract the week before, as it happens).

During my stay I'd chucked an orange juice bottle and a couple of empty water bottles in the bin in the room, all of which had come from the unconference; the orange juice was branded Pret a Manger, as that's where they'd ordered lunch in from on the Saturday, and IIRC the water was Sainsbury's own brand.

This didn't stop the cheeky gits from putting all three on my bill as having come from the minibar

When I complained they didn't even argue, just took them off the bill straight away. Effing chancers