Luxury Trappings of No Interest
#46
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: BKK
Posts: 6,741
Re televisions, I fo not have a strong opinion about this, but I prefer it when they are concealed when not in use. I often do not even turn them on, and think most room décors look better without that appliance. The newer, high end models are better looking these days however.
#47
Re televisions, I fo not have a strong opinion about this, but I prefer it when they are concealed when not in use. I often do not even turn them on, and think most room décors look better without that appliance. The newer, high end models are better looking these days however.
I just don't want them blocking a view or window like Andaz Tokyo. I also don't like them on showing the hotel or resort's wares.
#48
Re televisions, I fo not have a strong opinion about this, but I prefer it when they are concealed when not in use. I often do not even turn them on, and think most room décors look better without that appliance. The newer, high end models are better looking these days however.
#49
Never had such a bathrobe in a hotel I guess not all offer them, but many. What percentage of the hotels you stayed in offered them do you think?
#50
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posts: 3,213
I don't think I have stayed at a luxury venue that did not offer robes. Sometimes they are placed on the bed during turn down and look like a collapsed person (well, sometimes there is wine).
Last edited by KatW; Jan 23, 2018 at 4:34 pm
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#52
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: トロント
Programs: IHG Gold
Posts: 4,809
Can be useful in a dry climate or an extremely cold climate (eg minus 30 C and colder where the air is devoid of humidity). You don't slather yourself. A little on the forehead, elbows and perhaps part of the arm.
#53
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: トロント
Programs: IHG Gold
Posts: 4,809
Things I don't like:
- Phones right beside the toilet, clearly designed to be used while one is actually sitting on the bowl. Yuck. Plus, think of the last person who actually used that phone? How clean were his or her hands?
- Ridiculous complicated curtain or window shade mechanisms where you have to use a remote device
- Overly complicated climate controls with 30 plus buttons on a remote control with symbols only that make no apparent sense
#54
#56
Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 107
Question: has anyone ever been offered a partial packing service by a hotel? I'd always say no to the hotel packing my case because I know how I want my stuff packed myself, but I really hate having to fold up my clothes, unknot cabling and so on and so on. If there were a butler service that would just fold up my clothes and put my stuff in order, then leave me to pack it, I think that would be a dream come true. Does this even exist?
#57
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Southern California, USA
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Question: has anyone ever been offered a partial packing service by a hotel? I'd always say no to the hotel packing my case because I know how I want my stuff packed myself, but I really hate having to fold up my clothes, unknot cabling and so on and so on. If there were a butler service that would just fold up my clothes and put my stuff in order, then leave me to pack it, I think that would be a dream come true. Does this even exist?
Most butlers in other hotels likely could do this, as well, probably for a fee or for an appropriate tip of normally they do not provide packing or unpacking services already. I’d guess that our butler at the Imperial Vienna gladly would have done this had I asked. I’d also guess that the villa butlers at Las Ventanas al Paraiso in Cabo also easily would be able to do this. Wouldn’t you agree, @KatW?
#58
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Hong Kong
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Is anyone actually using this for any purpose (business calls? ordering food?) other than emergency?
#59
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i LOVE a phone in the bathroom...for those inevitable instances when a call comes in when I’m so indisposed. For me, to quote a great line in Alien versus Predator: “Same principle as a condom. I'd rather have one and not need it, than need it and not have one.”
#60
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: BNA
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No interest: pillow menus, soap menus, scent menus, tech loaners, preloaded iPods, "dumb" iPads, online periodical access, bath butlers, fruit, ice, refillable glass water bottles, cotton balls, fake magazines
Interest: sunglass cleaning wipes and other little thoughtful amenities, non-food turndown gifts, an app that I can put on my device to order room service / communicate with the hotel, fireplace butlers, adapters, a router just for my room, real magazines, a property map
Interest: sunglass cleaning wipes and other little thoughtful amenities, non-food turndown gifts, an app that I can put on my device to order room service / communicate with the hotel, fireplace butlers, adapters, a router just for my room, real magazines, a property map