5 Tips for a Better Hotel Experience!
Travellers need hotels. It's part of the travelling deal, but you don't have to put up with sub-standard service. Here are a few tips to get the best out of your hotel experience.
1. Don't get a room close to an elevator, or close to an ice machine, or any other kind of vending machine. It may seem fine before you go to bed. But afterwards when the lights are out you will feel the vibrations and hear the tiniest of noises all night long.
2. If you cannot get a room away from external noises, remember to pack some earplugs before leaving home. You can improvise by stuffing toilet paper in your ears, but a proper pair of earplugs will work much better and feel much more comfortable, giving you a much better night's sleep.
2. If you want privacy in the morning, especially if you don't want to be wakened at a ridiculously early hour by a cleaning maid, use the 'Do Not Disturb' sign outside your door. If your room does not have a sign, make one, or have someone at reception make one for you.
3. Check your hotel room alarm clock to make sure it has been turned off. Sometimes previous guests with a strange sense of humour set the room alarm clock to some ungodly hour for a practical joke. It may seem funny to them at the time, but you won't laugh at 4am when you wake up in a strange darkened room with an alarm clock clanging in your ears!
4. Before getting into bed for the night, remember the route from your bed to the toilet, and make sure the path is completely clear. If you need to go to the toilet in the middle of the night you can usually fall asleep again with ease. But it won't be so easy if you stub your toe on the heel of one of your shoes left lying between you and the toilet door.
5. Check carefully that the curtains of your room windows are fully closed. An early morning shaft of sunlight hitting your closed eyelids through a crack in the curtains can awaken you more easily than you might believe. And it's often those last hours of sleep that are the best. Do nothing that might spoil those precious moments.
Of course, at the end of the day it's your hotel experience, and you can do what you like. But these strategies always help me when I'm travelling and using hotels, so I recommend giving them a try.
About the Author
Kent Brady is a frequent traveller, both for work and pleasure reasons. He confesses to having spent nights in “countless” hotels and has developed his own method of coping. Recently he has created his own web site all about hotels, which you can view at: http://www. your-hotels.info/
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