Pet peeves...
 

I've found that after staying in countless hotels, I've developed my own list of pet peeves:

(1) alarm clock going off at 4AM in the adjoining (empty) room. Why can't housekeeping check the alarm clocks as part of cleaning after a guest checks out?

(2) towels that are hung on a rack mounted over the toilet. It never fails - reach out from the shower, grab a towel, remaining towels fall into toilet.

(3) microwave pancakes at breakfast. If they crunch, they shouldn't be served, especially if you don't have status and are paying $8 or so.


I'd be interested in seeing others...

SteveH

How about one that we never had to worry about until a couple of years ago?

4) Not getting fresh towels each day because you hung the ones you used that morning up on the towel rack (where they belong!)

I'm sorry, but this "we want to save water, so throw your towels on the floor if you want new towels" thing doesn't work for me. It's force of habit ... wet towels go on the towel rack! How many of you have used towels on the floors of your houses? (Parents of 8-13 year old boys need not answer.) http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

How about a little sign that you can flip up in the bathroom saying "I want to save water ... please don't give me fresh towels."

SP

Just 100 measly point for Hampton stays! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

That's incorrect. For stays at Hampton Inn you earn full 10 points per $ spent and 100 airline miles.

Charging for toll free calls in any way shape or form

Not following the Hilton rules. I don't want to hear "Oh, we don't do that." for some benefit clearly printed in the HHonors rules. The benefits should be provided with a smile and w/o having to demand (or even ask.) If the hotel doesn't want to do that, it shouldn't be a Hilton hotel.

I can't stand the scent of that carpet deodorizing stuff some properties use when they vacuum.

The TV remotes at Hampton Inns seem to be reaching the end of their life cycle. I find they often barely work or not at all.

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... wet towels go on the towel rack! How many of you have used towels on the floors of your houses? (Parents of 8-13 year old boys need not answer.)

As a former 13 year old boy, throwing wet towels on the floor is one of the perks of travelling. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

How about:

Carpet still wet from being steam cleaned. (As annoying as it is, still better than carpet desperately in need of steam cleaning I guess)


Asking for connecting rooms, being told okay, and receiving rooms next to each other that don't connect.

Dugernaut is so right !!!

So, may I infer from this that you leave the toilet seat UP? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I leave it up as a treat. It signifies two things. I can watch what i want on TV, and can drink beer in bed.

However I do pu it down when I have company. They play hard to get if thier nice little butt touches porcelain.

sorry about the speling http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I wish to invoke my 5th Amendment priviledge.

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SteveH

Here's another of my top peeves:

- All lamps (all 3 of them :-) ) have 40 watt bulbs. Can't read, can barely see to pack on my last day unless I open the curtain.

- on a similar note, finding one or more lamps with burned out bulbs or no bulbs at all. Once checked into an Adam's Mark hotel and when I closed the curtains and went to turn on the lights, discovered every bulb in the room was missing!

LOL... I've heard of guests stealing towels, but never of guests stealing the light bulbs. You would have thought housekeeping would have picked up on that.

Curly hairs on the bathroom floor and tub

Dirty shower curtain liners. UGH!!!!!

My pet peeves...

1. No phone book in the room.

2. No ashtray in smoking room. This happens more often than not http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

George...

1. Charges for 800 # calls.

2. Lousy TV channel availability.

3. Hotels that are using Sept. 11 tragedies as excuse for cutting services.

No batteries in remote. This really is based on theiving room guests, but it's still a peeve.
A non-smoking room with "that smell".
Having to beg for rightful benefits.

Soap, soap, and more soap!

And I don't like having to move the nightstand so I can find the outlet behind it and plug my laptop in.

My biggie, Coffee not replaced or replaced with a second decaf. God I need my coffee in the morning!!

Dedham Mass Hilton only had Bar food available because od Sept 11th??? I don't get it??

How about used coffee packet still in coffee maker when you go to make fresh coffee. Makes me wonder what else is in coffee pot..but I really dont want to know.

Thats like the story on CNN about the murder and/or rape where they found over 40 people worth of DNA in hotel room. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THAT!

1. Like QuantumLeap I really don't think an argument should be necessary to get what the program offers.

2. I agree that some of the TV remotes in Hampton Inns are due for replacement.

3. Stop charging for toll-free calls.

Especially when they balance a washcloth on top of a hanging hand towel.

And amen on the double decaf thing.

How about a big gap between door and carpet, so you get to hear everybody talking/walking down the hallway? And doors that self-close with a slam? The Doubletree San Jose is a good example in both cases.

I doubt that anyone else feels this way, but I hate the mirrored doors on the closet right if it is right by the door. I mean, do you know how many times I have walked into my room and scared myself!

ROFLMAO!!!! Thought this was just something I did. I still scare myself in the middle of the night when I see the reflection after making a trip to the bathroom.

As for the big gap at the door, I usually put a towel down and block the light. It can look like a light is turned on with the light from under the door reflecting off the mirror.

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What I like even less is doing that and then finding there are no free outlets (especially in those kinds of rooms where the only phone to plug your laptop into is on that nightstand)! (Typically in those cases there's only two oullets there, one used by the lamp over the nightstand and the other by the clock radio on the nightstand.) I had to start packing a multi-outlet adaptor just because of that.

A related one that I've found in some rooms is that the most convient free outlet in the room (which I want to use for something that must not lose power for even a second) is on the switched outlet (which is never labeled, so I have do experiments to find it). I want the light switch just inside the door to only work a lamp near the door, not the outlet pair furthest away from the door!

Now that I've complained, let me say what I really do like in this category: I've had a couple Hampton rooms where the desk had both an AC plug and a "data" phone jack at one end.


[This message has been edited by Stefan Daystrom (edited 10-14-2001).]

#1 Phone Charges
#2 Lack of ISDN Connections
#3 Failure to replace coffee packs. (at 5 AM this becomes number 1)

How about those bathrooms that have only a light, not a fan?!?!? Or, maybe worse but not sure: a light and noisy fan on one switch, so when you just want the light on, the noisy fan goes on and now you can't hear the television news...sigh... What ever happened to a light on one switch and a fan on the other http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Or hotel location? Just returned from a mini-getaway where my room one night was within throwing distance of a very busy highway and, worse yet, the exit ramp. Absolutely no reason a Hampton should have been built there. Hotel was full so couldn't switch the room, so maybe got a total of 1 hour sleep (trucks, trucks, trucks!)

HVAC either too hot or too cold unless noisy fan is on...

Broken equipment in workout room...

pay parking...

no hooks on back of bathroom door...

not enough hangers in closet when two or more people occupy room.

Just returned from a mini-getaway where my room one night was within throwing distance of a very busy highway and, worse yet, the exit ramp. Absolutely no reason a Hampton should have been built there. Hotel was full so couldn't switch the room

Hotel was full? I think you just answered your own question. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Drinking beer in bed! I love it! I'll have to try it tonight!

I just stayed in a Hilton where I could not turn the light next to the bed OFF .... I finally had to unplug it! This was a new one for me. I wonder what the next person that rented the room thought.

ditto on the alarm clock in the next room, used coffee pack, scaring myself with the mirror and remote control thing. argghhhHHH!

i remember when you used to be able to stay in a hotel room without hearing the person in the next room talk, sneeze, cough and, uh, you know.

so i guess my pet peeve is paper thin walls.

Grrr... nothing like checking in at night, your room is dark and the lightswitch isn't anywhere close to where you'd think it should be.

[This message has been edited by chexfan (edited 10-16-2001).]

When the "Guest Services" button on the phone puts you in touch with someone else's room...At about midnight when calling for a wake-up call. The guy on the other end didn't sound so happy with me, and I don't think he wanted to give me a wake-up call.

Just stayed at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Paid over $200 per night. They have the nerve to ask for $4.95 a day to use the in-room safe! I thought only the real low end motels did this.

[This message has been edited by dougef (edited 10-19-2001).]