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

I would like to add to the list shower heads that increase the water pressure - the water bounces off you at all angles and soaks the bathroom. I stayed in a hotel the other day where the pressure was so high that it hurt my nipples 🙈

Thick pillows that reduce down to nothing so you basically get smothered when you lay on them sideways

Also toilet roll holders that are behind where you’re sitting on the toilet so you have to pull a muscle turning around like an owl to grab some paper

I know, I spent a lot of time in French hotels. I bring some tea and coffee supplies with me now when I go because it's so depressing when you get there late at night and you can't even make a cup of tea. As long as there is a kettle I'm ok but there isn't always a kettle.

Have to agree with many of these. My two which fuck me off no end and one is a non negotiable now :

No separate bathroom. I do not want a tiny glass fronted toilet cubicle inches from the bed. Even if I'm travelling solo I don't want to shit in the bedroom. I scour pictures on TripAdvisor to prevent this as it's so prevalent now and I refuse to stay in a room like this.

Fixed showerheads. Obviously designed by a man. This is my bugbear with Premier Inns and Hampton Inns, they never include a handheld shower. Which is a pain as the rest of their product is consistently solid.

@Igneococcus French hotels seem to specialise in the saddest collection of in room drinks. The hotel we stayed at this summer had the world's tinest kettle, tiny cups, o e 500ml bottle.of waem mineral water and the most pathetic array of drinks stuff (two Monoprix budget brand mint tea bags, one Liptons black tea bag and a tube of instant Nescafe granules).

It's not really a holiday until you spend 10 mins trying to work out the lighting and sower arrangments in your hotel room.

We stayed in an (otherwise great) hotel in France this summer where the shower had been so oddly designed the poor receptionist had to give detailed instructions on how to use it at check in.

Why did I not know these were a thing?!

Just remembered the hotel in Toulouse where I stayed for a few days for a meeting. Good hotel, not cheap, great breakfast, fantastically well organised meeting rooms. There was a kettle and a selection of coffee sachets and herbal teas (there will always be Verveine among the herbal teas in France) in the room but the only cups available in the room were espresso-sized single-use plastic cups that went soft when you put hot water in. I had my travel cup with me that I could use but several of my colleagues started bringing proper cups from the breakfast service to their rooms.

Also, water doesn’t run vertically downwards, it follows the contours of your body. Physics innit. (Surface tension, cohesion etc)

I listened to a podcast about pillows, which wasn't as dull as it sounds and was part of a BBC series Sliced Bread. On there they mentioned inappropriate depth pillows in hotels.

They said that the right thickness of pillows for people who sleep on their sides is dependant on the width of their shoulders and if you found yourself in a hotel with a pillow that was too thin, you can make it a bit better by putting a folded towel underneath.

I’m quite thin, so I only have to stand with my legs slightly appart to create ‘access’, and then I use my hands to direct the water and lavage the area. It’s not hard, and I’m meticulous about keeping clean.

Can’t believe I’m describing this 😂

In a disabled room where the cleaner has parked the shower about six feet up so I can't reach it. Some cleaners don't do this

i quite agree lots of designers should try the hotels especially the beds including the comfort
the size of the kettles be lucky to get one cup never mind two
such tiny bathrooms you turn round and burn your bum on the towel rail
tiny baths so you have to sit with your legs and feet out of the bath like a yoga pose
very hot rooms with no way of turning down
duvets either too heavy or not heavy enough so you spend all night wrestling with it
not enough pillows we do not always want one pillow
grubby old pictures that were popular in the 1970s

Agree about the showers! If l wanted to do handstands and acrobatics in the nude, l would have taken up a job in a specialist Amsterdam nightclub. 😀

We had a holiday house in Turkey that we used to rent out when we first built it. I bought what felt like 100s of hangers, loads of good towels and good bedding. I don’t recall having to ever replace any of them so I guess our renters weren’t kleptomaniacs.

Am I?! I’ve seen one or two mention the issue of not wanting to get their hair wet (not an issue for me as my hair is long and I can just tie it out of the way) but otherwise nothing on the bum issue but I might have missed it.

My pet hate in hotels is when the ONLY shower is one of those rubbish hand showers held up on a pole. They are invariably pathetic. Or just low pressure showers in general. I like to feel the water on my back like a massage!

I think it might be your anatomy that's off, I've never had to take the shower head out of the holder to wash off the shower cream foam that I put in that area.

This is a bit of a spoiled brat one. But I really can’t stand it in high-end hotels when they have a turn-down service. They always come at the worst possible time like 6pm when you are relaxing in the room or trying to get ready. I really don’t need my pillows fluffed and a chocolate left by my bed. I always feel slightly guilty saying no, even though they are probably delighted!

that video and the comments are almost a carbon copy of this thread.

I particularly resonate with the person who mentioned the kettle lead that's about 6 inches long but the room not having a flat surface within the same distance of a plug socket.

I am currently, as I write, in a Travelodge in a tucked away, one horse town that was mega cheap and I have no complaints whatsoever!

Huge room, lots of sockets, no noisy fans or aircon, two mirrors, thick curtains, enclosed bathroom and the handwash smells gorgeous.

Sometimes basic is best.

Runners and cushions on beds - just why?
Sink design that wont allow the kettle to be fitted under properly so you only get half a kettle of water
Tiny bath towels- I want a bath sheet please!
Not enough milk, I like milky coffee so tend to use 2/3 of those horrible little pots. A hotel that has a little fridge for proper milk gets a thumbs up from me
Very small cups- I want a decent mug please…

Because someone before you stole them.

See also "hangers with no hook" above. Same reason. Some people nick anything not tied down!

You must have very unusual anatomy if water flowing vertically down your back will then turn a corner and resist gravity to flow horizontally between your arsehole and clit rather than continuing down vertically under normal gravity. Or do you just not wash that bit?

On a cruise ship recently, light switches at the head of a 3ft bed, central. Can't sit up in bed without the pillow pressing on the light switches turning the lights on and off or use the light switches without learning forwards and twisting.

Um, I may have put a croissant through one myself because I hate flaccid pastry. I like to think I got away with it, because of the aforementioned undertoasting outcome.

Although I have noticed a proliferation of 'Do NOT use this toaster for heating pastry' signage to ward people off this, presumably it catches fire if you're unlucky?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPEdZBvDGy-/?stkn=MTFnaHMzaG84bmRqYQ==

This Jake Lambert reel made me laugh. So true.
We travel quite a bit and I have a long list of hotel/rental bugbears. Up there is shortage of hangers - enraging. I once stayed for a week in an AirBnb in New Brunswick that had no hangers - not one.