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.

Not weird at all!

We stayed in one where the fucker flashed. I put a plaster over it.
Stayed in two hotels where the bathroom became an accidental wetroom when you showered. One shitty hotel in Greece one cute and trendy place in amsterdam.
Oh and beds pushed against walls- looking at you cute amsterdam hotel again and Premier Inn hub Covent Garden, where the bed was also ridiculously high

Pillows. I absolutely hate the thick bouncy pillows. Even one is too deep.

Whaaaat? I don't know anyone, in my friends or family, who washes their hair every day other than men, and even most of them don't. And yes, we do all shower daily.

I was at a place with a 'rainfall shower' last weekend (no hand shower) - and it was absolutely HUGE, about 50cm long and 30cm wide. Never seen such a large shower head. Water pressure amazing, so I'm sure it was lovely - but I had to have a bath because I didn't want to wash my hair!!

Those of us with long hair don't wash every day necessarily so a hand held or an adjustable height shower is really useful.

I would also like to add a request to remove the rock hard beds which have become the norm in the last 8-10 years. I swear there have been instances where the floor would have been more comfortable. Some hotels now are using toppers so they know their beds are simply too hard.

Not if you have curly hair it's not.

I guess the hotels I usually stay in are designed by slightly more intelligent people as the only gripes I have are not enough hooks to hang towels and coats (and bathroom hooks that aren't actually hooks so the hand towel falls down very easily). Otherwise the bathrooms have been great, proper walls and doors, suitable lighting, showers that can be handheld (or when there's a rainfall shower there's a handheld too). Countertops stretching the length of the room so there's room to put all your toiletries and, not being the UK, sockets in the bathroom for the hairdryer in front of the massive mirror.
Good heavy firedoors so no sound or light from the corridor. Sockets and bedside tables. Lights that work well, one hotel even had a switch by the bed that switched all the lights off except the reading lights. Adjustable room temps. Breakfast buffets with separate gluten free sections that have their own, proper, toaster. Often there's a selection of different style pillows, so thinner and thicker ones and when there hasn't I've just asked at reception for extra pillows and get them.

Stayed in the Hilton at Stansted airport once and the shower head couldn't be adjusted and it sprayed the water out forwards rather than downwards! Was horrible trying to shower in that. And the beds for the children were hard as planks.

a toilet roll holder with razor sharp edges placed so you can't avoid it with your knee.

shower pods inside the bedroom part. of course with translucent door and nowhere to place the towel.

Yes, I agree, OP. I'd make a general list even 4* business hotels fall foul of (and sometimes expensive boutique or luxury hotels too)

• Shit lighting
• Poorly placed/ lack of plug sockets
• Shit coffee at breakfast (almost all hotels)
• Poor temperature control
• Can't do a decent cooked breakfast

I stayed in an otherwise pretty good hotel for work last week in central London., with actually a very well-designed room ☺️ But my room wasn't ready an hour after check in time and I ended up only having half an hour to get ready for an event. Not impressed. I guess they have enough regular custom to not bother to do any better.

Stayed in a hotel in China last month and the bath was in a glass-walled room. On the balcony.

Skimping on towels is another bugbear. Two people in the room = two large towels please, not one to share. And they should be bath sheet size not bath towel size.

1. Over complicated showers. Went on a two week tour earlier this year staying in about 8 hotels and in each one you have to work out which knob or lever to turn in which unique combination to get a shower. Complicated by the lack of HOT and COLD arrows and fixed shower heads so you’re squashed against the wall getting drenched in freezing water while you figure it out.
2. No hooks ever. They cost 50p.
3. Mugs and cups are those tiny thick things that you can’t make a decent cup of tea in.
4. Special mention for the hotel in Florence I just stayed in for one week that had a kettle and coffee machine and pods and teabags but no mugs. Only glasses. Assumed this was an oversight but reception said they were ‘against local regulations’. They wouldn’t give me a cup. Had to buy a souvenir mug and use that.

Oh and the breakfast cups were tiny thick coffee mugs and hot water was from a spout on coffee machine and not boiling so couldn’t even get a decent cup of tea at breakfast