To revive this interesting thread, two other peeves:

- dirty balconies / chairs. If a room has a balcony, presumably the weather and view are nice enough for a guest to venture there. Yet the provided lawn chairs are often blackened by pollution and rarely cleaned. Same goes for the exterior handle on the balcony door.

- 'tired' and gooey remotes. Even in top class hotels I run into remotes which have reached the end of their (short?) life, or are coated with a previous guest's hand lotion or worse. The most frequently used keys (e.g. 'Menu') may only work after a hard push. Remotes are handled by nearly all guests yet hardly ever cleaned; I know their design is not conducive to cleaning. How about a remote with high-quality switches, in an easily wipeable design (waterproof?), possibly even with a cradle to recharge its batteries, that would be standardized across an hotel chain to make it a high enough volume product to be viable? A remote for a hotel TV does not need as many buttons as a home one either. While we are at it, with rechargeable batteries backlit keys would become a possibility.


Unrelated: new hotels would seem to be prime candidates for the new self-cleaning glass hitting the market now. The only thing I dislike more than a dirty window in a skyscraper is a cleaning 'tub' suddenly appearing outside my window while I am undressed!

[This message has been edited by monahos (edited 06-12-2002).]