What are hotels unable to

Ah, MN classic.

OP: "tell me about annoying things in hotels"

Posters [lots of funny/true tales of annoying things in hotels]

The inevitable poster: "OMG, what a moany thread!"

Every. Bloody. Time.

Provide a large glass for orange/fruit juice!

We stayed in a hotel last night managed to turn radiator in room off and open windows. Couldn't figure out bathroom radiator and no windows my moisturiser melted overnight!

Me too!

Fit a shower that you can reach the controls for without standing under it. They have a habit of fitting the rain shower things that are fixed above your head. I'm fed up of getting drenched in freezing cold water while I wait for the warm water to come through.
I also habit having to remake the bed every time after untucking the duvet to get into bed and pulling out the bottom sheet at the same time.

Loving this thread and have experienced almost all of them in one hotel or another.
Mine is putting the shower gel/shampoo bottles (the ones attached to the shower wall) right underneath the shower head.
I have to do gymnastics to use it if I'm not washing my hair and don't want to get my hair wet.
Put them on the back wall!

I don't understand the 'nowhere to dry your towels' comments... there's usually a heated towel rail in the bathroom and numerous hooks or a towel shelf by the shower in almost all places I've stayed?

But lots of the issues are prohibitive to sleep! (noise, light, difficult to control temperature, heavy bedding etc)
And things like a normal kettle, decent lightning or a full length mirror are not outrageously extravagant to have in a room you've paid to stay in....

I'm really surprised no one has mentioned a door chain or swing bolt.

I really don't feel safe in a room without as a mastercard or master key can be used to access even if you've turned the finger bolt inside.

I had one occasion when another guest accidentally gained access using their key, as in they were room 326, I was 226 and they were in the wrong floor.

Cushions and throws that look suspiciously like they have never been washed and you have to pile up in a corner every night!

Light switches that are obvious so when you turn up at midnight knackered from travelling - or come in from a night out - you stand a chance of turning the lights on - and not the whole main light.

Sounds like an exciting stay!

You still spend hours in there. Why shouldn’t it be comfy and thought given to make the stay good. I agree with the suggestions. Shows what is lacking in many hotels.

Provide a proper bed for children to sleep on in family rooms (Premier Inn, I'm looking at you). DS was nearly 6ft tall at 15 years old. There was no chance he could sleep on the couch type thing that they provide. I am paying for a bed I expect a bed!

when you get sent to a place for 2 weeks for work and have to live in a hotel, some of these things make a massive difference to your stay.

OMG, what a moany thread!

You do realise its a HOTEL, somewhere to sleep, not your home, you arent living there!

No matter what a hotel provided it wouldnt be enough.

Lots of signs asking me to "help them protect the environment by reusing towels"... but no way to dry those freaking towels in order to be able to reuse them. Drives me absolutely round the bend. X 100 when staying somewhere with the whole family.

Omg this. It’s often like the crystal maze.

Hooks on the back of bathroom doors

I think they have to be taught to be taut.

Because they’re thick?😆

Have a normal kettle?
Hotel kettles hold about an egg cup full of water , take 25 minutes to boil and sound like a jumbo jet taking off....

Provide showers that don't require a degree in engineering to get a simple warm/hot flow.
All ten light switches near the bed instead of 9, the tenth being that one that you don't know where it is until you go to bed, discover an overhead light and then find the switch secretly hidden behind the TV.
Otherwise I love the excitement of staying in a hotel.

Understand that pet friendly means pet hair.

Showers with uncontrollable temperatures, a choice of constant fluctuation or freezing or boiling.

Slow check in and check out.

bizarrely I like instant crap and can’t bear the pod machines. I had to buy a jar of coffee from M&S in a city centre recently so I could have a coffee in my hotel room because although the hotel could supply tea, sugar, milk and hot chocolate in sachets coffee was beyond them!