Hotels why do you do this

[Kannet]

We need the plugs near the mirrors. How hard is this

I hate hotel rooms / apartments that don't have coat hooks near the main entrance door for the 5 million coats my family has. They end up being draped over chairs getting on the way.

(ferries can manage this in cabins so I don't see why hotels and self-catering can't).

I very rarely stay in hotels, sadly, but would like them to consider that, if the tv is designed and angled to be watched from the bed, then it's probably a good idea to have the tv at a height that it can be watched from the bed.

I'm in the US so can dry hair in the bathroom but my gripe is when there is no socket by the bed to plug my iPhone.

First world problem I know...

Here's a few more,

Showers that have zero pressure, just wet you with a fine mist which takes an age to wash hair.

Also in showers where soap holder is tilted so as soon as you put your shampoo etc on they promptly fall off again.

Get out of the shower to discover you bathroom is now a wet room.

Beds that resemble camp beds with polyester pillows and duvets.

Grubby floors and no complementary slippers.

'King size bed' which is actually two singles zipped together.

Hotel windows that no longer open for fear of child falling out or person committing suicide. I need fresh air at night!!!

Grim cardboard feeling grey towels, yes 5* Sheraton I'm talking about you!

Hair that's not yours..the list goes on. I used to love hotels, now I can't stand them!!

I hate spotlights placed above mirrors in hotels, how the hell are you supposed to apply make up when the top of your head is lit up like a christmas tree but the whole of your face is in darkness?

Non-opening windows. We stayed in a fancy hotel as children during a heatwave and my dad collared a handyman in the corridor and paid him money to remove the thing that stopped you opening the window properly!

I hate shower gel bottles attached to the wall (mostly found in budget hotels).

Overly complicated TVs.

We once stayed in a beautiful riverside cottage in Devon. Large picture window in bedroom - was fantastic view whilst sitting in bed, but NO curtains whatsoever. Also, bathroom on same floor had plain glass walls so you could again see the view, right next to the staircase!

Whenever I stay in a hotel it always seems to be one where they are holding the 'door slamming Olympics' at 3am.

cordless irons

I'd never noticed most of these problems (but I'll definitely be banishing those cushions from the bed from now on- thanks ladies) so I guess we must be easily pleased

But what does annoy me intensely is how a decent hotel can charge £££s for a room and fail to provide a measly litre of drinking water costing a few pennies. Actually, there should be a litre bottle PER PERSON. It can be so dehydrating in those sealed rooms ..

I was in a very pleasant hotel recently, in what they termed an 'executive suite' (which made me titter as I don't even have a briefcase).

There was a fuck-off huge flat screen telly; a Nespresso machine; an ironing board and iron; a sofa and coffee table; enough satiny cushions to kit out a bloody bordello; a dressing area with a wardrobe - but no full-length mirror.

I looked everywhere for one. There was the standard anti-fog bathroom one and an above-dressing-table jobbie that enabled one to see one's midriff whilst standing - but no full-length mirror, even on the back of the wardrobe door. How was I able to satisfy myself that I did indeed look stunningly devastating before sweeping downstairs to dine?

I got my own back by taking all the shortbread biscuits, individually-wrapped PG Tips tea bags and Suchard Hot Chocolate style instant drink sachets. Corporate bastards.

What a good idea to pack a long extension lead. Thats definitely going in my overnight case.

Did you know that all new flat screen TVs have usb sockets so you can charge up mobiles etc in a pinch .This has saved my bacon a couple of times.

Had same thought recently, when I checked into a hotel, lovely, fresh and clean, but there was a cushion left on the bed, near the pillows. I promptly banished it. It looked clean, but I just didn't like the idea that it wouldn't be cleaned/ changed, after each guest.

I'm like a child at christmas when i get to stay in a hotel. So exciting!!! This christmas we are actually staying in a hotel too. YES. I don't care if there are PUBES IN THE KETTLE.

Hotels without sockets next to the bed, hotels where the TV is 4:3, hotels that don't do a proper blackout, the duvet being tucked under the mattress so when you finish work late and just crash you can't then poke a leg out without having to get up again... Oh I could go on. I stay in some so called lovely places with work and they are all awful and as bad as each other.

Oh and hotels where you can get room service 24 hrs but you can't go downstairs and order the same thing at the bar. I have no want to pay an extra fiver for you to deliver me a cold pint of coke after I've been slaving away in your awfully designed conference suite for far too long.

Well that got ranty very quickly. Hotels anger me.

I stayed in a Hilton at the weekend that wanted €7.50 for a bottle of water....was 50cents in the local shop. There was a plug next to the bed and no cushions or runners however the wall between the bedroom and bathroom was opaque glass with a curtain to pull across if privacy was required!

Didn't you just want to do a sexy you can leeeeeeeave your hat on dance in that bathroom need ?

ithought I was on my own as it was a business trip but had my DH been with me I might have had a dance The ladies toilet cubicles in the hotel also had opaque glass doors. You could see shapes and colours but no details (thank god!). It was very strange.

I hate that hardly any hotels have blackout curtains, why would you not want to give your guests a good night sleep?

Something premier inn actually gets right, although they do insist on that pointless purple runner.

Use thin, short curtains really great when you've got a street light shining in your room
Lack of an ordinary small fridge would be nice (to keep water/milk, sarnies when the hotel doesn't do breakfasts)
Radiator/heating THAT can't be turned off.
Lack of privacy for parents who would like to DTD when the children are asleep in the same room.

Dh recently bemoaned the fact, and he skyped me from the bathroom to show me, he was so bemused, that the bathroom mirror was over the toilet instead of the basin. He couldn't see to have a shave.

Why can't suitcases be like mary poppins carpet bag, it would solve a lot of problems.

He didn't just skype me about that, obviously. He just took the phone in to show me. He's not that dull.