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Four easy ways to make hotel stays more pleasant
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The old adage goes: "There is always room for improvement". Here is my list of the changes I'd like to see in hotels. Most are simple, some are cost effective, and all will make the travelers' stay more pleasant.
Trash cans
I'd love for hotels to stock rooms with decent sized trash cans. The souvenir packaging, packing materials, tickets, brochures, and odd food wrapping that end up thrown out by travelers add up and never fit into the small bins supplied. As a result, the resulting rubbish is often strewn all over the room and bathroom floors (even the most conscientious guests eventually stop trying to cram it all in).
Pamphlets and Reading Materials
Like many fellow travelers, I enjoy reading the hotel-provided books, brochure, and papers, but I dislike bumping into the haphazardly placed ones gracing every possible surface space in the room. Why not take a page from doctor’s offices and have a specific area for them—a side table or, even better, a wall display? If implemented, any interested patron could easily glance at the various magazines, and accidental spills and greasy fingers would not cause them to be replaced so frequently.
Bathroom shelves, drawers, hooks and towel racks.
An ever-present yet irksome sight in hotels all over: a bathroom counter designed for beauty, not for function. With the small area given, the average hotel countertop cannot accommodate the extra towels, medicines, toiletries, and sometimes even dry clothes (for stepping out of the shower) that are part of every savvy traveler’s bathroom. As such, my question is: why do hotels have to skim costs and create such a small space, devoid of hooks or additional room? Minimalism is cute for aesthetics, not for convenience.
Sundries in vending machine
In today's three-ounce-bottle-restricted world, many travelers deplete their supply or forget altogether the essentials. A vending machine stocked with all the basic toiletries (like deodorant, toothbrushes and paste, and over-the-counter medications), would aid the weary foreign tourist
Have you had any 'issue' with your hotel room you'd like changed-come share!
The old adage goes: "There is always room for improvement". Here is my list of the changes I'd like to see in hotels. Most are simple, some are cost effective, and all will make the travelers' stay more pleasant.
Trash cans
I'd love for hotels to stock rooms with decent sized trash cans. The souvenir packaging, packing materials, tickets, brochures, and odd food wrapping that end up thrown out by travelers add up and never fit into the small bins supplied. As a result, the resulting rubbish is often strewn all over the room and bathroom floors (even the most conscientious guests eventually stop trying to cram it all in).
Pamphlets and Reading Materials
Like many fellow travelers, I enjoy reading the hotel-provided books, brochure, and papers, but I dislike bumping into the haphazardly placed ones gracing every possible surface space in the room. Why not take a page from doctor’s offices and have a specific area for them—a side table or, even better, a wall display? If implemented, any interested patron could easily glance at the various magazines, and accidental spills and greasy fingers would not cause them to be replaced so frequently.
Bathroom shelves, drawers, hooks and towel racks.
An ever-present yet irksome sight in hotels all over: a bathroom counter designed for beauty, not for function. With the small area given, the average hotel countertop cannot accommodate the extra towels, medicines, toiletries, and sometimes even dry clothes (for stepping out of the shower) that are part of every savvy traveler’s bathroom. As such, my question is: why do hotels have to skim costs and create such a small space, devoid of hooks or additional room? Minimalism is cute for aesthetics, not for convenience.
Sundries in vending machine
In today's three-ounce-bottle-restricted world, many travelers deplete their supply or forget altogether the essentials. A vending machine stocked with all the basic toiletries (like deodorant, toothbrushes and paste, and over-the-counter medications), would aid the weary foreign tourist
Have you had any 'issue' with your hotel room you'd like changed-come share!