What are hotels unable to

I’ve never seen this - I’d love to have a sheet as well as a duvet, the latter are often far too warm but I hate sleeping uncovered. I end up having to huddle under my kimono.

Oh yes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Can I add porridge to the list?

Have windows that can be opened to let some fresh air into the room.

This 💯
DH & I always have such a palaver trying to sort out the air con. We usually can’t sort it. 🙄

i’m with you re the flannels / face cloths whoever posted about that. They should be mandatory. 😀

Hooks! Why so few hooks? Ill never understand this, it's such a cheap and simple thing to add to a room/bathroom.

Lights, why so complicated?
It's amusing for a a cheap over night but anything longer than that and I seem to spend a stupid amount of time figuring them out.

We stayed at a fancy adults only place once and spent most evenings removing the card and sitting in the dark watching movies on the laptop because we couldn't figure out ANY of the lighting combinations to watch the TV properly 🤦‍♂️
The closest we got to 'mood' lighting was leaving the bathroom light on, door agar. Extractor got annoying after a while though.

Give you a time slot when the chambermaid will arrive, 2 hours will do.

In the case of a Disneyland Paris hotel, stop their staff from nicking stuff.

Why do you need a flannel for make up?

Little tip I learned from MN - have a roll of black electrical tape in your bag and cover all of the annoying little lights. Plasters work too if you have forgotten the tape.

Wow! That’s awful!

It's because the bottom sheets aren't big enough for the mattress.

Glass bathroom doors very common in Europe.

They also seem to like saloon bar doors - a gap of about 12 inches above and below the door.

Bizarre.

@benten54too bright to sleep in, but not bright enough when you’re awake. Tiny little side lights but not a nice bright overhead light.

@ThinkingAbout2026 a glass door to a bathroom? Really? As in see-through? Thankfully I’ve never come across one of those, and hope to keep it that way.

Also why do some still have a tucked in flat sheet as well as a duvet or cover? I guess some people like that feeling of being trapped under a sheet in a 1950s school bed, but I immediately go round and untuck it at the end as I like being able to move when I sleep!

Have somewhere to hang coats. I get that they can't put a hook on the back of the room door as you would obscure the notices about fire evacuation routes, etc, by hanging things on it, but a couple of coat hooks somewhere in the room would be valuable!

Have decent lighting by a mirror in the bedroom. I don’t know how many times we’ve been away and it’s driven me nuts that I can’t apply my make up whilst DH is hogging the bathroom. There’s always a mirror in the bedroom, but always seems to be in the darkest part of the room 😵‍💫!

For this very reason, I have recently invested in a light up travel mirror for my overnight bag!

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Cook tomatoes or black pudding properly. Correctly set up a self-service toaster so that the bread only needs to go through once, instead of one pass = anaemic, two = burnt. Serve nice coffee at breakfast. I can make a very good flat white at home. Do better.

Sooo true! I am an epileptic and have to sleep with an eye mask in some hotels, always a flashing smoke alarm.

Also have proper doors for the bathrooms (not those weird semi glass sliding doors). I don't want to hear my partner having a shit.

Provide enough coat hangers without trouser clips.

Have a magnifying mirror in the bathroom.

Put makeup flannels in rooms by default.

Keep the hairdryer anywhere obvious (and while on that subject provide hairdryer with any kind of useful power).

Label the damn master switch for the lights (and have it turn all the lights off, not all the lights plus some random under lighting somewhere).

Have enough bright lighting so I can see and work if needed

Realise a glass top on a desk you advertise as a workspace stops a mouse working

let you move the phone that takes up half the tiny bedside table

and a late addition from last week’s business trip - reset the tv alarm when the previous guest checks out. I never use the tv in hotels and didn’t need a 4am wake up (presume someone had a flight to catch)

*taut

Not put cushions that have been on the floor, chairs etc on the bed where my head will be.

Have any kind of sound insulation between rooms or the room and the hall

Have a hall floor that doesnt magnify the sounds of either someone just walking down and/or pulling a suitcase

Have doors that dont slam in a super noisy way

a bit of a theme here!!

Decent sized mugs and wine glasses

Provide a dark room. As soon as you turn the light off it becomes Blackpool Illuminations. Red light on the Tv, blue light on the aircon, random flashing lights on the ceiling in an array of colours, bedside alarm clocks all shooting piercing lights of a million lumens into your eyeballs.