Top 10 Most Annoying Things About Hotels
Craig Platt names his 10 biggest gripes with staying in hotels.
Despite the impression Fawlty Towers might have given, running a hotel shouldn't be that difficult. Yet many establishments seem to get it wrong when it comes to basic parts of their service. Here are 10 of the most annoying things hotels consistently get wrong.
1. Breakfast is served … from 7.30am to 7.45am
This is a particular problem in Australian hotels, motels and B&Bs. You're on holiday, but if you actually want to get that breakfast that was included in the room rate, you've got to be up at the crack of dawn or risk missing out. Some hotels have gotten the message in recent times and extended breakfast hours through to 11am, but plenty of others are lagging behind. I still look back fondly at the B&B I stayed at in Valparieso, Chile, where the proprietor looked at me, perplexed, when I asked what time breakfast was served until. “What time do you want it?,” she asked. “You're on vacation, if you want it at 1pm, you can have it then.”
2. Bathroom nightmares
A decent bathroom should be a simple thing for a hotel to achieve, but consistently hotels fail on little details that become major pains. Poor design is one. I've stayed in places that offered nowhere to place your toiletries in the bathroom, other than on the floor, or put the soap holder outside the shower, instead of in it. And while the cleaners might get the tiles clean, they never seem to do anything about the blocked drains, leaving you standing in a pool of manky water by the end of your shower.
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Source - Sidney Morning Herald
