random hotel pet peeves....
 

Why do hotels often have the the Elite floor not as the top floors? Example, hotel has 20 floors, the Elite member floors are 8,9,10.

Why do hotels not build the High Speed Internet connection with cords long enough to move more than 8 inches? I mean if I am working, I like to be able to watch TV or sit in bed.

Why do hotels place the TV at a 90 degree angle from the desk so you can't sit at the desk and see the TV at the same time?

Agggg......

1. Not enough wastebaskets- it's easy to fill them with a couple of the freebie newspapers after you're done reading them.

2. No space with a phone line in reasonable proximity to a free electrical outlet. Sometimes I end up disconnecting lamps so I can use the Internet and keep my battery charged.

3. Rip-off rates for local calls.

4. The maid forgetting to replenish the coffee supply for the coffeemaker- discovered as I stagger out of bed first thing in the AM. Worse than all of the above combined.

Room not ready even at the beginning of the official check-in time.

Showerhead so low I always hit my head on them - or even my shoulder.

Come on, http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/mad.gif I'm NOT that tall (only 5'10")

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Well, bring your own ethernet cable.

TV? Hotel room I stay at has 2 TVs. The main one viewable fro mthe bed, and a smaller one by the desk. Nice.

* Water-saving showerheads that reduce water flow to a trickle.

* One hour limit on 800 phone calls.

* Inaccessible power outlets (behind TV, bed)


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I definitely have to agree with the room not ready at check-in time pet peeve. Very annoying.

Also annoying:

* Bad plumbing! I've been in way too many hotels where the shower drain doesn't work properly and you end up standing in 4 inches of water during your shower. Also agree that the low-flow showerhead is annoying.

* Non-existent maid service. I've had rooms where I've been out all day, come back at 5pm, and the room still isn't made up. Then I get a phone call from housekeeping at 5:15 telling me that that is the only time they can clean the room, and am I planning on being in the room then.

* Weak lighting. Please, some of us need brighter bulbs to read!

Newspaper delivery at 4 AM, dropped flat from a height of 6 feet making a loud noise. Repeat often all the way down the hall.

Hotels with impatient or idiotic maids, the ones that totally ignore your DO NOT DISTURB sign and knock anyway. If my sign is up, it means I do not want my room disturbed for ANY reason, even if I am NOT there!!!

adding to HFLY's message----also, maids who hover around the outside of my room near check-out time waiting for their tip...

Geez, I stayed in a couple places recently with rip-off local/800 rates. I could have forgiven them if they had had even the rip-off high-speed access in these rooms, but they did not! One of them, I now can't remember which, had a half-hour limit!

People who SLAM doors late at night or early in the morning, Life conversations in the hallway at 1:00 am, Housekeeping staff who have personal conversations very loudly in the hallway, Alarm clocks that were set by the previous guest and they go off at 3:00am, People who get ice at all hours at the night, Front desk personnel who do not pick up the phone when you call. Hotels need signs posted in the hallways of each floor to remind people to be CONSIDERATE of others. Do you think I spend too much time in hotels?

* Annoyed by those pieces of cardboard placed all over the room touting room service, promo's, phone rates, etc.
I just gather them up and put them in a drawer.

* Room that has not seen housekeeping in awhile. I was at a hotel recently where there was a layer of dust on the desk and all
of the other furniture.

* A phone call from housekeeping when you have the "do not disturb" card on the door
asking when you want the room made up.

wish list....
* A recycling bin in the room or at least somewhere in the hotel. In some cities with recycling receptacles on the street I have gathered my newspapers, water bottles, cans and made a deposit or two during my trip.

Yes! Especially when they do this at 8am on the one day I don't have morning meetings.

Other peeves:
No master light switch by the bed.

Lack of reading lights or insufficient ones.

Not enough hangers (including skirt hangers).

Only one phone, located at least 10 feet from the bed.

Windows that don't open.

Ugh - the non-draining tubs/shower stalls definitely gross me out.

What really really annoys the hell out of me is how in EVERY hotel I've stayed, the air-conditioning is aimed right at you when you sit at the desk to work. I've gotten so cold I start shivering and now bring my shawl with me all the time.

Agree with the absence of electrical outlets near the bed. At least at some hotels you can unplug the floor lamp or something to get access. Once I stayed in the Hyatt Regency in Hong Kong and the lamps around the bed were all connected directly to the wall - no outlet. My electrical cord stretched accross the room and my laptop perched on the esge of the bed. Feh.

Another peeve - no clock in the room. And on that note, no alarm function. I don't trust hotel wake-up calls and prefer either a room alarm or at least an automated phone alarm system.

Hotels that don't provide room slippers or only paper slippers. I actually bring my own slippers (which I took from a nice hotel) because where they don't provide slippers or cruddy ones, you're guaranteed a cruddy carpet. Yuck.