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

[FucksakeLavender]

I travel a lot for work and for pleasure.

I know I'm a particular sort of person buy Yegods some of the room I've stayed in at complete abs utter shite designed by people who I don't think have ever slept I. A room ever on their whole life ever, not once.

A bathroom light that comes on by sensor as you open the door. Nay, not A bathroom light, four lights. 3am snoozy wee completely brightened like the sun. No chance of just meandering back in my slightly soporific stupor.

And more poor DH who didn't even need to be awake now has frazzled corneas.

Light switches that you can't reach from prone in bed. What the warrant feck.

A kettle that yiu can't boil at the same time as watching tv because of the situation of sockets.

A 12foot by 8 foot plate glass window opposite my bed looking out into a communal outdoor space. Felt like investing in a red bulb for that hotel.

Lights choice? 13 spotlights and 2 side lights. Or nothing. No in between.

A very very stylish en suite in an historic building which was just a stone wall 2/3 of the height of the room. No ceiling to it. All ablution noise audible throughout the room. Married 35 years but, nope I'd rather not hear That tyfvfm.

A door that only locks from a single key from outside the room. So if one of use goes out for a bit, the other has to remain locked in. Or unlocked, compromising safety.

No handheld shower, and no shower cap provided. Nope I don't want my hair washed every time I shower thank you.

Had held showers with no parking location so it's a one handed shower for me, generally resulting in a soaked bathroom ffffs.

No socket near the bed.

No food on a Sunday evening.

No physical chain or bolt in the inside of the door.

A chair in the route from my side of the bed to the en suite. I'm sure I've broken toes in this scenario.

Every hotel employee should be forced to spend a nice in each room to check for smooth sailing.

And the mirror is usually placed directly opposite the window so that any light that comes in is reflected back, illuminating the whole room. And the light that seeps under the door from the corridor lights that stay on ALL night

My thoughts for what they are worth

Pelmets - yes I know they are old fashioned but they stop the light coming over the top of the curtain where most of it leaks in. Curtains that actually fit the size of window, have the correct amount of hooks and that pull together properly. It's usually the top where they don't meet properly but - pelmets!

Timed lights or motion sensitive lights in the corridor. I remember in a hotel France that you pushed the light button (it was sort of squishy), lights come on all down the corridor and you had enough time to get to the toilet down the hall. Come out, press the switch and you have enough time to get back to your room - this was happening in the late '70s!!!!!!!! Why, WHY haven't we got something like this or motion sensitive lights in the 2020's?? WHY

Sockets either side of the bed. I have a CPAP machine - I have to take an extension lead every time I go to a hotel as I can't guarantee that the plug can reach the socket - and it's a reasonable length lead.

And every time I stay in a hotel I comment to DH, I bet the management or staff have never slept in this room because if they had these faults would not exist - unless they are sadists - which is always an option

I’ll add air con that blows straight to the bed and / or makes crazy noises. So your choice is either try sleep in a sauna or cold air blows in your face and you wake up from the noises.

So agree with this..I want to open a window...Aircon is not the same as fresh / exchanged air

YANBU. My top hates are the stupid cushions and runners, bathrooms that aren’t properly separated from the bedroom, ridiculously complicated lighting and showers, stupid little LED lights here, there and everywhere.

The absolute worse things are no noise insulation and rooms that aren’t clean

Ive had to ask for help with the shower controls and n the receptionist couldn’t work out what was wrong either. He ended up having to call someone.

The one that i really don't understand is an odd number of coffee sachets in a room for an even number of people. 3 sachets in a room for 2. Just WHY?????

I hate glass walls with a vengeance but raise you no walls at all and open plan en-suites that “flow” into the rest of the room. At least glass walls offer some sort of protection from smells!

I could even forgive most of the ridiculous set-ups if I could SLEEP
without flipping lights coming from the TV, the alarms and god knows where.

I KNOW you are supposed to take black tape with you, but come on.

I think that about most things. The men who design washing machines have clearly NEVER once had to clean the dispenser drawer and its surroundings, which gets manky even when it is never used. Same applies to most appliances.

Big elaborate wardrobes but no where to put a suitcase. I’m staying 1 night. I’m not going to unpack, I just want a knee high bench to put my little wheely suitcase so I can get stuff without bending to the floor.

also a decent cup of tea. Outside the uk, that is always a struggle.

No it isn't weird.

This. Why? Why?

Musician here. May I mention the dressing rooms on the South Bank? The place, you know, where musicians HAVE to wear long black, but are provided with shirt length wardrobes to hang said concert garb.....

Hear hear OP.
Above all I want a switch by the bed that turns everything off (nothing more frustrating than desperate to go to sleep and searching for how to switch off light number 13.

Also proper blackout curtains without a gap, and air conditioner that isn’t noisy, some soap and some free drinking water!

Also I like it when the police don’t bang on my door in the middle of the night then repeatedly shout “Police! Open the Door!” when (not expecting anyone) I don’t answer. This happened last time I travelled on business (in an Eastern European country.) They didn’t seem to understand that most women aren’t going to open the door to three unexpected male visitors in the middle of the night.

Some sort of low light / night light for the bathroom would be brilliant.

Instead of a choice between pitch darkness or searing brightness plus a noisy fan.

Also the duvets are always way too thick and hot.

And the pillows are the thickness where using one is too thin and using two is too thick.

Stupid tiny pots of uht milk. Why… Ot a sad sachet of oat milk.
Charging ports/ sockets. Near the bed and mirror. Many please.
Provide a proper. Decent. Hairdryer. With a nozzle. Bonus points for straighteners.
Fixed AND handheld shower.
Coffee machine? Lovely. Can we have more than two pods per night please?
Don’t have the coldest room in the country with a radiator on a timer.
No aircon? Two fans please.
Not room related, but conveyor belt toasters should be illegal. Forcing me to make apologetic small talk with strangers while I re toast . Stop the madness.

A bathroom with no door and the shower - with a wall that only went halfway up - placed so that anyone entering the room from the outside would see the person showering. Who thought that was OK?! I lived in fear of housekeeping stopping by.
Bathroom entrance doors that can't be fully opened. One was prevented by the countertop from opening more than about a 35 degree angle. There's no way the builders didn't know that.

I went to one recently and I was shocked that instead of tea and coffee in the room, there were tea and coffee stations in the hallways!! They called themselves and "eco hotel" but surely we don't have to skimp on a cup of tea in our rooms!

No excuse for any modern hotel not to have bedside sockets for phones. I find some of the older hotels better. They have modernised the lighting but the plug sockets that I presume were for bedside lights can be used for phone.

I have glasses I need a proper bedside table. I always carry a case now, I’m pretty much blind if they break.

Agree on curtains that don’t close, positioning of vents, no cups, bins that are not lined

Rainfall showers should be illegal. I hate them. I like a detachable shower head so that I can aim it everywhere that needs to be washed.

I’ve started calling ahead to make sure they have high rise pillows. Why can’t they just get it right???

No sockets by the bed is the worst one.

I agree. DH uses a CPAP machine and now keeps an extension lead in his overnight bag just in case. We have stayed in many places where it has trailed across the floor to a socket on the other side of the room.

Not being able to turn on the bathroom light without the fan whirring up big time. Annoying for anyone in your room or next to it, or below or above it

i was having quotes for new bathroom. One of them told me I was being dramatic wanting a separate switch. He didn’t make the shortlist

Shower heads that are too low. I mean I am freakishly tall for a woman and just over 6ft but it’s not an unusual height for a man and they use showers too. Hate having to squat to get my head under the rose.

Also, some hotels have replaced the plug sockets beside beds with USB only sockets. I see their logic but a plug is still needed for anyone with a CPAP machine or people like me who need up to 4 usb ports and the socket provides only 2.

One of the hotels i stayed in over the summer had 14 light switches.

The light above the suitcase rack near the door was only guaranteed to turn off from a switch on the other side of the room.

It also turned off with a combination of some unknown design of some switches on and others off.