To think hotel designers should at least have once slept in a room before being allowed to design a room.

@FucksakeLavender the bathroom thing bothers me definitely noticed that it’s all crazy bright light. Maybe designed by people who never need to go to the loo in the middle of the night.

I no longer travel for work so if I am staying in a hotel it’s usually for an event or occasion. I want to be able to style my hair so I want a socket near a mirror. It amazes me that this is so often not catered for regardless of the level of the hotel. I also want a full length mirror and not one hidden on the inside of a wardrobe door that has no space to stand in front of it. I want decent lighting too not that dreary half light.

i really struggle with horrible pillows full of manmade fibre that have no give and sweaty manmade fibre duvets. The pillows give me a headache.

I don't bother with toast when there's one of these

Kettles you can't get under the tap to fill.

Oh moxy’s with their pink lighting are the 8th circle of hell. It’s not fun or vibrant. It’s stupid.

Five years ago a new hotel was built directly across the road from the block of flats where my daughter lives. This was opened with much pomp and ceremony is the most expensive place to stay in town. Unfortunately the guests seem unaware that windows work both ways and there are several windows that face my DD's living room and kitchen. The view into the hotel bedroom is uninterrupted so she and her DH regularly see naked bodies walking round the rooms and the occasional love making session as well. They have arranged their furniture to block the view as much as possible and have contacted the hotel to suggest they might want to tell their guests they can be seen but nothing seems to have changed.

Just got back from Prague, We had a "triple" room as DS came with us. It was the same as a double, but because 3 beds had been put in, the light switches that should be next to the bed were actually behind the outer two beds pillows! Slightly move in bed? Yep light on! Nightmare. It also had no side tables or sockets near the bed. Relatively new hotel too.

I am so with you

My bugbears

Bedside plug only having one socket so it's phone charging or lamp

No bedside lamps or one which are brighter than the sun or dingy as fuck

Bedside lamps which can only be controlled from one side so if you want to turn yours on/off and the other person is asleep you have to get out of bed

(i have some neck reading lights now as I have had so many issues with bedside lamps!)

Clothes rails instead of wardrobes - makes the room look like a car boot sale and they are never long enough for maxi dresses, last hotel I stayed in in Greece I had to hang them on the side of the curtain rail.

Open storage generally - give me some bloody drawers!

Showers in the room - fine until room service knocks with coffee and you have to get out of the shower and hide in the loo!

Loos in the room - wtaf?

No plug within reach of a mirror to dry your hair

Televisions located on a wall which you can't see from the bed or chairs/sofa

Windows which don't open - I want fresh air!

Rainforest showers without hand held as well

Rooms so small that you have to climb over the bed to get into the bathroom (France and NYC I am looking at you here)

Flashing lights on anything

Curtains/blinds which aren't at least slightly dimming. Also rooms with great curtains but they also have another smaller window, or in one case a roof light, with no curtain/blind so you end up having to make some heath robinson contraption to keep the light out from a carrier bag or towel.

Places without do not disturb signs so housekeeping burst into your room every morning at 8am (not nice for them or us!)

Poncy hotels who don't offer newspapers in the morning - not everyone wants to stare at a phone while eating their breakfast in bed (I appreciate this is probably unreasonable but at one very ££ hotel I asked for papers with breakfast and was told there was a tesco 10 mins walk away if I wanted one! So I get up, get dressed, walk 20 mins then come back and get undressed and back into bed? No thanks!)

I was thinking of making a checklist and sending it to every hotel I stay in so they can see where they fall down!

No I'm female and I didn't say I didn't rinse thoroughly I said I'd never taken a shower head off it's mounting to do it to remove shower cream foam.

I too am in a Travellodge, and behind the toaster, it has a picture of a flaming toaster and a croissant in a red circle with a diagonal line over it. There are also words saying sliced bread and bagels only in the toaster,please ask if you want your croissant warmed.

The room itself does have adequate sockets - two on either side of the bed, plus USB sockets. Also two + USB at the desk, and one under the 3/4 length mirror. You could hang a full length dress. If it had been raining, I'd have probably wanted a separate hook for my coat, but as it is, my coat has not left my car the last few days.

There are two seats, though not very comfortable if you have a two hour long Teams call as I did last night.

The bathroom has a towel rail (it could probably do with two, but it's still one more than other places.) It also has sufficient flat space to spread my toiletries out.

The aircon is noisy, but the window opens, so it's not really an issue. The curtains keep the light out.

I have not fully worked out all the light switches, but I worked out enough that I've not been in light nor dark when I didn't want it.

It's cheap and characterless and the food is merely adequate, but I do get the impression someone thought about what people want for basic hotel use.

Are yya bloke, perchance? If I didn’t rinse shower cream off my bum very thoroughly, I’d get very uncomfortable.

Absolutely agree with this one - have just done a similar post before I saw this one.

Agree with all this with the addition of the lack of hooks on the bathroom door for your dressing gown. And maybe a small stool for your towel next to the bath for when you get out.

I recently stayed in one with an automatic flush sensor placed just above the toilet paper holder. So that when you went to grab some loo roll, the toilet flushed while you were sitting on it. So a kind of surprise bidet.

I have a friend who washes and dries her hair daily, every morning. She also has a moisturising routine that takes about twenty minutes. You can never have an early morning trip out if you're on holiday with her!

But I'm a slattern who washes her hair when she remembers and slaps a bit of whatever body moisturiser I brought with me on my face, so maybe I can't talk.

When it comes to hotel hatred - no sockets by the bed. I run Audible through my phone overnight to help me sleep. If there's no socket by the bed I either flatten my battery (and never have time to charge it up before I go out again) or plug it in on the other side of the room and have to listen to it whispering away (because if I turn the volume up it will disturb neighbouring rooms) which is almost more irritating than not being able to sleep

Slightly off topic, but I’ve always had the same thought when you see those finished houses on Grand Designs type programmes where there’s a bathroom / toilet with no door in the master bedroom. Who the hell designs an en-suite that’s completely open? Do these couples want to view each other on the bog? Not to mention the waft of shite that must drift into the bedroom when someone’s done their business in there 🤯

Same in new build houses. I looked at some yesterday with a friend.
No space in the kitchen for the bins.
Washing machine space in some of the houses is only big enough for a small slimline style one
There is a recessed bit in the hallway. The houses have 0 storage, so almost everyone is likely to turn that space into a cupboard surely
The towel rail on the bathroom is the other end of the room to the shower
The houses all have parking for 1 car and the roads are single width. What household in a rural town only has one car now. There is also no turning space on the end of the cul delivery sacs so getting in and out of the end houses could be tricky. I forsee parking nightmares

It's like these people have never lived in houses.

And yes, I share the frustrations about hotels too!
I think some of it is older hotels, built back in the days when mobile phones weren't really a thing and we didn't all need plug sockets by the bed. But other things - heating, bathroom lights, glass bathrooms and fixed showers, drive me nuts too!

Airbnbs with cleaning instructions. Strip beds, put dishwasher on as you leave - okay. Clean bathroom, sweep floor, empty bins - er, fuck off. What am I paying a cleaning fee for?

Just stayed somewhere with a motion sensor on the bathroom so the lights came on full and a noisy fan started up. I don't need a fan running for several minutes after a quick wee, and I usually pee in the dark during the night to make it easier to go back to sleep.

Glass on ensuites in twin rooms is my biggest pet hate. I travel with my teenage daughter. I'd guess that most people who stay in twin rooms are not intimate with each other. Therefore, they don't wish to see each other showering or pooing. Probably goes for some couples too to be fair.

Horrible staticky carpets that feel weird under your feet. Everything in shades of grey including the faux wood-effect floor. LED strip lights in weird colours, but not enough light on the mirror to do your makeup. Bedside lighting that doesn’t illuminate your book. Windows that don’t open. Curtains that don’t curtain.

If you want to feel true existential misery stand near the door of your hotel room in front of the only full length mirror under the lighting provided dressed only in your underwear. That sight will haunt your entire holiday.

And only contain 3 coat hangers each for 2 people on holiday for a week.

Me neither. To get to the space between arsehole and clit you face the water, open your legs a bit and run water down the front. Are other people bending over and washing their foof from the back?

We stayed in a hotel in a major chain, where the breakfast room was so narrow, that if I walked up to the food area and someone was walking towards me, we couldn’t both pass - one had to stand aside close to a table and chairs. You can imagine what it was like at peak breakfast time - it was like negotiating an obstacle course, with a stream of people going both ways!

Whatever idiot designed that room, never had to use it! We won’t ever be using it again either, nor that hotel chain if we can help it!

I do this as well. I have a toiletry bag that is just full of tea.

I agree with pretty all of these mentioned so far but my biggest one is showers you have to basically fully get into to turn on so you’re blasted with freezing cold water first thing in the morning.

Also those tiny glasses for juice at breakfast. Why???