To want to be able to sleep when I’m staying in a hotel.

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I work away from home a lot, so have clocked up a lot of experiences in hotels. AIBU? Here are the problems:

1. Bedrooms too hot. Air con default at 23 degrees appears to be the norm now, with restrictions on how low you can go (which is usually above what I need in order to sleep). Last week, the default was 25 degrees. Surely hotel chains have read the research that bedrooms need to be cool?
2. Beds too narrow or short. One time, the bed was so small I had to sleep diagonally.
3. Bed backboards affixed to inferior stud walls, resulting in waking up every time the person in the next room moves in their bed.
4. Hotels not informing customers they are hosting migrants, homeless families and what seems to be recently released offenders: thank you for all the noise in the middle of the night.
5. Doors that look like they’ve previously been crow-barred open. Cue trying to sleep with one eye open.
6. Gyms only open at 7am. Like, that’s too late.
7. Breakfast from 8am. Like, that’s too late.
8. Severe restrictions on the shower temperature options. Thank you for the luke warm shower! Likewise, a lack of industry wide standard shower fixings: I don’t want to solve the shower equivalent of a rubic’s cube when I’m pressed for time. Oh, and the shower head maximum height being set at ‘hobbit mode’. Thank you for the crick in my neck.
9. ’DOG FRIENDLY’ everywhere. Cue me not being able to breathe in a room formerly occupied by a dog due to allergy. But that’s ok because ‘customer wellbeing’.

Thank you for hearing my woes.

Prejudice in the extreme!

So it’s not the hen and stag parties kicking off all night? Your racism is unpleasant

An I suggest premier inn as they always have decent beds and showers and the rooms are never at 25 and they don’t seem to have a dog problem

I think you need to stay in better hotels!
I’ve never had these issues (apart from occasionally being too hot) and am not a 5* kind of person!

It is very bad when booking a hotel - and indeed it's the same for holiday lets - that you can effectively either choose from 'dogs allowed' or 'I don't mind either way'. So many places don't offer those with allergies any option for 'dogs NOT allowed'.

Go to better hotels!

Getting shitty rooms if you book as a single person. I always book as the default 2 people now.

That's not always true. I had huge suites at a hotel in Cardiff and another in Birmingham. Bit of a waste by myself, really. Could have partied away!

Sounds like you're staying in utter shit holes. Why?!

Ive never some across the difficulties you list .
Im not sure if you have just been unlucky or its to do with price.
You could check with the hotel regarding your specific requirement before booking and try to find one that meets your needs or negoiate with your employer re:your requirements/costs?
Mention your dog allegry on booking .

I agree about the hot rooms, hotels are always too hot. And the windows often only open a crack

Are you reading the reviews before booking?

They’re never perfect. We had to move room recently due to a function right beneath our room. Base thudding from 5pm. Smell of weed in the corridor. They did move us. But why put us there in the first place. So disappointing. Room we went to had loose fixtures and was cold and they refused to make the third bed until night staff came on at 9. Restaurant and breakfast had restricted menu due to the function. Just a birthday party, not a wedding. But puts you off rebooking again. We’d used them 5 times before with no issue.

I take ear plugs, eye mask and sleeping tablets but the heaters drive me crazy. This is where the cold showers are great!

You can’t really complain about noise at night but then expect the gym and restaurant to be open early in the morning. You have a different sleep schedule to other guests, you are all important (even those pesky immigrants, homeless families and criminals need sleep).

If your company will only pay for these hotels then sadly it’s part of your role. Take a nice book, a face pack and a big packet of crisps. Make the most of it!

If traveling for work. I’m usually in the office for 8. Breakfast at 8 during the week in particular is too late

I don’t recognise any of these issues, i suspect it’s the price bracket you are booking in. I had my heating set at 17 2 weeks ago when i stayed in a hotel

Tuning out the lights only to find its Blackpool Illuminations. Clock radios (why?) burning into your soul on the bedside. Random bright AF red lights on TVs, aircon and ceilings. Sometimes flashing.
Hotel I stayed in recently had a piercing flashing blue light on the ceiling. It lit up the whole room. Utterly ridiculous.

Gosh breakfast is usually 7-9 wherever I’ve stayed and I think that’s early if on holiday.
You need to stay at a chain hotel targeted to business travellers.

I generally start work at 9. Which means I need to be in the office no later than 8:45 to get through all the hellos to people I don’t work with regularly / find the correct meeting room etc.
So as to not rush my breakfast and have time for my post-breakfast poo and to clean my teeth, plus assuming a minimum 10-15 minute drive to the office, I’d want to be eating no later than 7:30.

I hate hotels. Airbnb all the way. I know that's unpopular but really I prefer just to book a little self catering bedsit or a room in someone's house etc
Had lovely stays in people spare rooms and it is QUIET!
Hotels are so loud. And fkn hot. And you can't open the windows most of the time

Premier Inn house the homeless too. It was noisy. Disappointing.

You could always offer to put some of the homeless people up in your own home, to preserve the quiet atmosphere for the 'decent' people in your local PI...

But why would homeless people as a group be any noisier than anybody else?

Remember: essentially the only difference between homeless people and you or me is that we have a home and they don't. They aren't some kind of sub-human species. I'm sure none of them ever planned to become homeless as a deliberate life goal; and none of us can ever know for sure that we won't ever fine ourselves included in their number.

The vast majority of long term homeless people are homeless due to mental health and substance abuse. Of course they are more likely to be noisier than someone in a hotel on business. They deserve support, rehabilitation and care in a proper institution

You forgot dark rooms. I complained at one recently that was so dark it was ridiculous. They apologised profusely and said they get lots of complaints but head office has decided we all want to be in the dark! Ridiculous.

and taps as well as shower fittings. “”Fancy” taps are a pain!