Eight hotel room gripes they could fix to make your next stay better, and the hotels that get things right
- Noisy doors, confusing shower controls, fiddly alarm clocks, unfathomable TV remote controls, too many light switches – hotel rooms can be a pain
- Around the world, hotels have found simple solutions to what are, after all, simple issues – so why don’t other hotels learn from them?
Everyone loves to gripe about air travel. But what about hotel rooms? They can be just as frustrating if you get a bad one.
Here are a few simple fixes that would go far to make guests happier.
Bedside
Few hotels have decent bedside lighting. The best bedside reading illumination comes from high-intensity, flexible-necked fixtures that concentrate a narrow beam of light onto the page, without disturbing anyone sleeping next to you.
I stayed in three hotels recently that understand the pleasure of curling up in bed with a good book and good lighting: London’s Kensington Hotel, and the Principal hotels in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland. Too many hotels give us useless table lamps on the nightstand, made even less tolerable by those dim fluorescent light bulbs.
