What is your pet niggle when staying in hotels?

kittykat100

The miserable moaning customers

Voyager2002

Worst of all: the charges for internet access. Remember that the internet only exists because of the many experts who gave their time for free, in order to create a facility that would be there for everyone. And now, most hotels have a minimum charge (for up to 24 hours) that is more than my monthly subscription for broadband at home.

nearlyrich

Cold toast, why do they always give you cold or even uncooked toast?

Swimming pools and gyms that are only open when I am in the office!

Miserly amounts of tea and boring biscuits.

Weedy hairdryers that would take a week to dry a baldie's hair.

Bad room service food

Charges for internet

Overpriced wine

Dirty rooms:mad:

Can you tell I spend far too many nights in bad hotels?;)

shellsuit

Not being able to get a drink in the residents bar because you want to pay with cash and they only take cards.

Paying for parking ~ you pay enough for the room!

Those horrid hairy blankets (usually yellow, brown and orange, yuk!) you find folded up in the top of the wardrobe/cupboard.......who actually uses these? I've even found them in a 4* hotel!

Finding window frames have been nailed to a certain point so you can't open the window properly and get fresh air. Obviously meant to be a deterrant to smokers, but if you want air, you should be able to have air!

Showers that cut out from hot to cold after about 5 minutes ~ especially when you have just put shampoo all over your head!

duchy

Chambermaids who can't read do not disturb signs at 7am

Alikay

I hate the not-quite-wide-enough top sheet they put on the beds. They're just about wide enough to tuck in at the sides when the bed is empty but once there's a body or two in it, it no longer fits. So you spend the night in contact with a nasty scratchy blanket which has spent lots of nights in contact with lots of other bodies....eeewww!

vikingaero

Definitely the presence of pubic hair!

nlwsaint

When you stay in Hotels with tiled floors & the person in the room above seems to spend the entire duration of your stay walking around all night in high heels whilst dragging the bed & wardrobe around with them.:mad:

Networkguy

1. When you arrive after dark and all the lights in the room are off. It would not be so bad but the light switch by the door does not seem to do anything so you and up fumbling around a unfamiliar and pitch black room trying to find a light switch.

2. Internet charges.

3. Is it too much to ask that when I am charged £15 for breakfast I do not get abuse (or just ignored) because I have asked for a fresh and runny fried egg and not one that has been under a heat lamp for 20 minutes.

4. Why is it that Hilton properly switch off their TVs (rather than leave them on standby) to save electricity yet leave the empty minibar fridge (Hilton are phasing out minibars) switch on 24x7!!!


I feel better now

Tojo_Ralph

Where do I begin? .......

Numero uno.... Hotels that tell you how much they are commited to conserving the worlds resources, blah, blah, blah, towel on the floor, blah, blah, blah.... And no matter !!!!!! you do, they'll replace any towel that has so much as been touched or looks like it is out of place!!!

The "turn down" service, for no other reason than it's bl00dy pointless, I mean, how many towels can one room need? and chocs? dates? orchids? wee notes wishing you a pleasant sleep? one size fits all disposable slippers placed by the side of the bed? ........ Noooo.

Hotels that cannot provide me with feather pillows. :mad:

Inadequate sockets (invariably one) at the deskspace.

Hotels that put the remote for the TV in a bl00dy leather bound box so I cannot find it.

Poor lighting.... Especially if there's a Wolfgang Puck coffee maker in the room, because that thing is such a !!!!!! to fill without spilling.

Overpriced Internet access.