Hotel/travelling accomodation related Rants

[Quickstatus]

May I suggest a rant should be bookended by [Rant] and [/Rant over]

[Rant]

This trip:
2 hotels and 1 ABnb super hosted one with 4.92* and 102 reviews
100% of accom so far

Not one with a properly draining shower stall

Have reduced a 5* rating to 4.8* (the minimum average rating to retain super host status) due to standing in a puddle after I turn off the water in the bathroom of the otherwise perfect Airbnb.

Crowne plaza Changi also room 601
The Leonard Hotel Marble Arch also

I hate slow draining shower stalls

[/Rant over]

 

[cove]

We had no issues with AirBnB thru southern Ireland because we went with highly rated ones.
With Crowne Plaza at Changi Singapore i have stayed there 14 times and have not had any issues. We use it as an overnighter on our way to London or Los Angeles. I usually pay with IHG points.

 

[Anna]

When you're looking forward to getting out of the cold and into your room, only to find some idiot has turned the room thermostat as far down as it will go and it's colder in there than it was outside

 

[RooFlyer]

When you're looking forward to getting out of the cold and into your room, only to find some idiot has turned the room thermostat as far down as it will go and it's colder in there than it was outside

Ummm ... that would be me, sorry. I hate a hot or even warm hotel room, so my first go-to thing is the thermostat to turn it down as far as possible, hoping to take a bit of the heat out of the walls before I turn in.

I used to stay in apartments in Canada for work. Central 'aircon' and everything stiflingly warm to hot. My solution, in winter was to open a window to the -30 degrees outside. You could feel the cold air pour in, like a wave. But even if you chill the room close to zero, as soon as you close the window, it soon warms up as there is a 360 degree encasement in a constant 23 degree concrete shell.

[rant]
Hotels which keep central control over aircon well into spring, and the central is set on warming.

Or those that just have a +/- 2 or 3 degree control; or those where the aircon control is 'broken' ("Its just very quiet." "No - its broken; there is no sound or any air coming out." "Its always like that - just very efficient" )

Or those hotels that have central (warming) aircon AND only a doona, no sheet on the bed.

[/rant]

 

[stm1sydney]

Or those hotels that have central (warming) aircon AND only a doona, no sheet on the bed.

This!

 

[Anna]

When you've carefully saved your empty plastic water bottle and placed it amongst your personal possessions intending to take it out with you later that day and you get back to the room and it's vanished, thrown out by housekeeping

When as a tea drinker on day 1 of a 2 night stay, you laboriously find the kettle from whatever obscure hiding place it's been put and move the coffee machine out of the way, locate the teabags and put the coffee pellets away - only to find that housekeeping comes in and undoes all your careful work and puts everything back like it was. And empties the kettle into the bargain, while leaving the coffee machine full of water and therefore not easy to move without spilling

This thread is quite cathartic

 

[Anna]

And here is one for people who prefer gender neutral language

 

[Lynda2475]

Hotels that put duvet between two sheets instead of in a duvet cover, so you risk the duvet (and who knows how often they are cleaned) touching you uncovered!

 

[dajop]

Or those hotels that have central (warming) aircon AND only a doona, no sheet on the bed.

+ 1. I usually strip the doona and make the bed with the doona cover (or ask for an extra sheet if I can make myself understood).

What then really ticks me off is when they service the room, they remake the bed by putting the doona back in the cover, so now I hide it in the cupboard to make it abundantly clear I don't want the doona on my bed.

 

[Lynda2475]

Some years ago, i bought a silk sleeping bag liner (because there was risk we might need to use a borrowed sleeping bag in middle of the salt flats in Bolivia). I often chuck it in my bag if any tour accommodation looks iffy, weighs nothing, is cool (and clean) this could be a good investment for those not wanting to use the duvet where there is no sheet (they sell double ones and you can unpick the seem so folds out full sheet size).

 

[JessicaTam]

And here is one for people who prefer gender neutral language

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And apostrophes!

 

[JessicaTam]

What annoys me is opening the door to the hotel room and finding every light switched on. It then takes ten minutes to find all the switches to turn them off!

 

[MARTINE]

Ummm ... that would be me, sorry. I hate a hot or even warm hotel room, so my first go-to thing is the thermostat to turn it down as far as possible, hoping to take a bit of the heat out of the walls before I turn in.

I used to stay in apartments in Canada for work. Central 'aircon' and everything stiflingly warm to hot. My solution, in winter was to open a window to the -30 degrees outside. You could feel the cold air pour in, like a wave. But even if you chill the room close to zero, as soon as you close the window, it soon warms up as there is a 360 degree encasement in a constant 23 degree concrete shell.

[rant]
Hotels which keep central control over aircon well into spring, and the central is set on warming.

Or those that just have a +/- 2 or 3 degree control; or those where the aircon control is 'broken' ("Its just very quiet." "No - its broken; there is no sound or any air coming out." "Its always like that - just very efficient" )

Or those hotels that have central (warming) aircon AND only a doona, no sheet on the bed.

[/rant]

Sooooo agree with you
Spent last month in the UK
With the exception of staying with a friend at their house in final week every hotel was appallingly overheated on hot spring days. Most of the time we tried to open any window; putting down thermostat just resulted in default to hotel’s ‘normal’ temperature.
Down to breakfast and its back into the sauna.
Every shop and restaurant we went to was also insufferably hot.
I thought energy costs were soaring overseas but who knew?!

 

[Quickstatus]

Do hotel aircons just recirculate?.

@MARTINE , our London hotel was the other way. Too chilly for Mrs QS but just right for me. London on the other hand was warm.

 

[VPS]

Sooooo agree with you
Spent last month in the UK
With the exception of staying with a friend at their house in final week every hotel was appallingly overheated on hot spring days. Most of the time we tried to open any window; putting down thermostat just resulted in default to hotel’s ‘normal’ temperature.
Down to breakfast and its back into the sauna.
Every shop and restaurant we went to was also insufferably hot.
I thought energy costs were soaring overseas but who knew?!

I was there in winter and everywhere was still way overheated. They keep talking about an energy crisis - how about turning the thermostat down a few degrees. One day it was 10 outside and it was so warm in my room they offered me a fan -FFS

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

And apostrophes!

Here you go…