I enjoy exercise, but can't make myself visit a hotel workout room very often. Why?

1. Too small - unless the hotel was built recently, and even that's no guarantee, the place is a linen closet with mirrored walls. I feel claustrophobic.

2. Not enough equipment - it stands to reason that if the room is too small, it won't hold much.

3. The wrong equipment - to make best use of the space, there's usually some universal monstrosity. It does everything, but only one guest at a time, and takes up the whole floor. If there's ever 2 of anything, it turns out to be a stepper - a device straight out of a Spanish Inquisition torture facility.

4. Smelly and too hot. Too small a room fills up with sweaty body odor in no time. Crank up the heat and it gets pretty rank. Possibly done to keep visits short so it never gets too crowded.

5. Poorly serviced - broken equipment, no clean towels, empty water cooler.

As an alternative, I go for a walk. I like to select my hotels and return to them if they offer access to a trail or sidewalk where I can trot for a couple miles without fear of being mugged or run over.

Anyone else share my disdain for hotel workout rooms?