Lights in room at night. Does it bother anyone else?
May 7, 2016 | 10:43 pm
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I guess this has also got to do with the growing up environment. I grew up in asia where the city never sleeps. Lights are always on throughout from street lamps, neon lights billboards, store lights etc. Close proximity of neighbouring units, apartments amplifies the light spillover. As such, never had an issue even sleeping in broad daylight.
May 8, 2016 | 8:44 am
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I also got annoyed by lights. I like to sleep in a totally dark room. I feel much more rested when I wake up.
May 31, 2016 | 3:24 pm
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May 31, 2016 | 3:28 pm
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So, I'm here at the Sheraton in Dubai, a nice enough property, but like many other hotels, once the 'lights' are off I can't help but notice just how many other lights there are. As a count right now I see a green ceiling light, a smoke detector light flashing, 2 phones with lights, alarm light, 6 plug sockets with lights, a soft blue light behind the bed (took me 2 days to work out how to turn off), the TV has 3 lights coming from it, a light on the main light switch, the WiFi or cable TV light under the table. Its like runway 1 at LHR in here. Now I am quite a light sleeper and like a dark room, so the ever increasing amount of LED,s irritates me and I find myself covering some of the biggest offenders. Am I the only one who gets annoyed by this?
I also find ticking clocks annoying, and some hotel chains I have stayed in had battery operated ticking clocks on the wall. I unplug the battery on those.
May 31, 2016 | 3:30 pm
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I've been in hotel rooms with motion sensor activated floor lights. Assuming that you walk to the bed, they stay on for a while--with no off switch--and then turn on again automatically if your feet get near the floor in the middle of the night or even if you kick the edge of some bedding near the floor. It's easy to be frightened wide awake by these things if you're not expecting them even though the light isn't very bright.
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May 31, 2016 | 3:32 pm
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Post notes work well to cover any small lights that you can reach, if you don't have any black tape.
May 31, 2016 | 3:35 pm
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A trick I learned on FT:
The clothes hangers which have the clips to hold pants hanging straight can be used to clip drapes shut to keep out light.
The clothes hangers which have the clips to hold pants hanging straight can be used to clip drapes shut to keep out light.
May 31, 2016 | 4:02 pm
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I would be interested as well to avoid them, but then again since I'm a klutz & have tripped over items in hotel rooms at night injuring myself (yes I'm talking to you Grand Hyatt Tokyo) I might be interested to know so that I would stay at them
Like others I travel w/ eyeshades & earplugs. If there's a LED alarm clock in the room I turn it away to face the wall or just toss a hand towel over it.
Unlike the OP I've not encountered the Indy 500/Heathrow/fill in the blank volume of lights. Yikes.
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May 31, 2016 | 4:05 pm
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Blinking lights
I travel with a lovely dark brown Indian silk scarf. It's light and soft and drapes gently over my eyes. No more tape, no more towels, no more menus propped up - and no more blinking buggers.
My husband used to own a very old Apple laptop. When charging a light on it would pulsate. That thing is not traveling with us any more!
My husband used to own a very old Apple laptop. When charging a light on it would pulsate. That thing is not traveling with us any more!
May 31, 2016 | 4:45 pm
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I've been in hotel rooms with motion sensor activated floor lights. Assuming that you walk to the bed, they stay on for a while--with no off switch--and then turn on again automatically if your feet get near the floor in the middle of the night or even if you kick the edge of some bedding near the floor.
May 31, 2016 | 5:47 pm
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I had to unplug 2 phones at a Marriott because the front desk couldn't figure out how to turn off the flashing red message light.
I was also in a Sheraton with the brightest bathroom nightlight ever - built into the mirror so that there was no way to turn it off.
I was also in a Sheraton with the brightest bathroom nightlight ever - built into the mirror so that there was no way to turn it off.
May 31, 2016 | 9:22 pm
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The fire detector or whatever it is on the ceiling that flashes is, indeed, annoying! A few non glaring lights can be tolerable, but not a whole slew of them like that.
May 31, 2016 | 9:56 pm
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Jun 1, 2016 | 12:15 am
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i always carry these for work as i have to mark my files at various places....they come in handy in situations like this....i always ending up using a few every night in hotel rooms to block off unnecessary lights....
Jun 1, 2016 | 10:33 am
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Drives me nuts. I sleepwalk pretty badly at the best of times and those 'red lights of death' from the TV, smoke alarms etc. inevitably set me off on a somnambulistic stroll. I travel with Blu-Tack or poster tack, that removable putty stuff, and use that to cover all those horrid little lights.
My pet peeve is when the whole wall is made of glass so the curtains can't reach the edge unless they really have a nice stiff corner. Not so much a problem in upscale hotels but often in small modern properties. Sounds like I need a small "darkness" travel case with clips, Blu tack and some duct tape plus my eye mask (I really don't like how those feel but if there aren't alternatives...)