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

I once stayed in a hotel (solo , on business) and l couldn't work out how to turn the lights off when I wanted to go to sleep. Hunted around for a good 5 minutes then decided to call reception. Except there was no phone. Fine, got my mobile out, looked for the number online, but there was apparently no phone service. There was of course a vintage-looking radio in the room though. Managed to work the lights out eventually after more hunting around. I could have headed down to reception but was already in my PJs.

Yes it used to be noisy TVs but now they play loud music out of their devices.

Premier Inn use soft closers on their bedroom doors so the whole corridor doesn't shake when a door is closed, so why can't all hotel chains?

There are never enough plug sockets. Also I stayed in a really nice hotel recently and even there, they were a bit tight-fisted with the towels. I like a bath sheet to wrap myself in and a bath towel for my hair. I also prefer a handheld shower head but this only had a rainshower one.

Most hotels make a song and dance about making sure you've paid for breakfast so asking your name/room number etc. But a few months ago I was in a Holiday Inn where they didn't seem to care. But you needed your room card to use the loo in reception. So they were more worried about people getting a free wee than a free breakfast. What happens if you've checked out and they look after your luggage and you come back for it and want to use the loo before you go. Also, reception wasn't right by the door, you had to go up stairs to get there so I don't think they had many passing people popping into use the loo.

And on luggage issue I think Premier Inn are tightfisted for charging to look after luggage.

Little LEDs everywhere. I actually now travel with a roll of black electrical tape and tape them up. I'm not being interrogated by a piercing beam all night from the TV I'll never even turn on.

I have stayed in hotel rooms with standby lights bright enough to read by.

I have just arrived at a Premier Inn. Unlike the Travelodge i have just left, it has only one socket at each side of the bed, but it does have those. I don't think it has any for the 3rd bed/sofa. There is one by the tiny table, so laptop can charge. But if there were actually 3 of us, we would probably also want the kettle to work (i don't drink tea or coffee) and plug in more devices, and it's a bit short on that.

There is space in the bathroom for toiletries, though not much light. I don't want to shower in the dark. (I got very excited by there being a bath, but of course, there is no plug. Tempted to resolve this tomorrow, though might not be so knackered and wishing to lounge in a bath by then.)

But in other exciting news, the window does open!

Just pick Premier Inn. You know what you're getting. Plus a very good cheap breakfast.

Yes, spectacularly so in some cases!

You forgot rotten, shitty, fucking awful pillows. I have stayed in hotels 3 times this week, two of them expensive, and the pillows are hideous 😬 Big fat puffed up synthetic pillows seem to be the norm. My neck aches.

I think I need a lesson on how the shower works.

There's a rain shower, a hand shower and the bath. There's a knob either side of the bath tap,one for flow, one for temperature. I got the bath running (no plug), but in pushing/pulling the button on the top of the bath tap that I assumed would push it to shower seemed to turn everything off instead. I think i have worked out the switches that changes it from rain shower to hand shower, but that's irrelevant if I can't get any shower.

I washed my hair in the basin by filling a cup of water.

I am expecting to be woken by all the water springjng into life at 3am...

Or maybe those of us who don’t mind fixed shower heads just aren’t complaining about them? They don’t bother me either.

Re croissants and toasters.
In Madrid we went to a cafe that flattened croissants then toasted them. Delicious.

Just come back from a weekend away, our room had an internal joining door to next room. It literally sounded like the people next door were in our room. Worse still we could hear the man on the toilet, brushing teeth ect. Awful!

As a family we have 3 phones to charge and a CPAP machine. At the last 2 hotels we stayed at the CPAP chord stretched across the room in front of the bathroom and we had to take turns with the charger.

My other bugbear is noise from the corridor. If it isn't the lift it's other people. We stayed in a posh Spa hotel in the summer and were woken up every morning by children running and screeching in the corridor. It shouldn't be difficult to design rooms to block corridor noise.

Yes, at a hotel we stayed at someone put a pain au chocolat through the toaster and it burst into flames (the pain not the toaster).

I agree on the sensor bathroom lights, I often have to get up in the middle of the night for a wee and I like to try and do so with the minimum of light. Most of the other stuff on the list I don’t mind though. I like a big full height window with a view outside.

Also showers with barely a screen so water just flows onto the floor.

I travel a lot around 185 days a year in hotels, I carry my own cup, travel kettle pillow and stickers for the tv the AC and anything else that lights up like Blackpool illuminations. I hate hotels.