I just spent the last week jumping from one hotel to the next and I got to thinking about personal quirks when staying at hotels.
- Check to alarm clock and make sure it's off and not set to some stupid hour
- Remove the top blanket, I've never seen any on the cart so who knows when it was last washed
- turn the thermostat off, or air conditioner on
- always wear socks and don't let my bare feet ever touch the floor
- never use the glasses provided
Lurch
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-Put the remote control in a ziplock bag!!!! eww
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You guys need to stay in better hotels. The ones I stay in, they give you a new remote each day.
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Indeed (for better hotels)
They did quite some progress in the last few years. Here is a few of them that changed my daily life in them.
-For top blanket's crapiness, some hotels answer to this is to have them bright white.
Any other color for it should be banned actually.
-The annoying elevator 'ding' when it reach its level being removed.
Try sleep in a room next to one when that is not the case.
-Proper plugs in locations, either for your laptop or your electrical razor in the bathroom.
-Proper wireless internet connection.
-Descent hotel's breakfast opening hours.
-General cleanliness.
-Not charging stupid amount of $$$ every time you are using the phone.
etc...
They did quite some progress in the last few years. Here is a few of them that changed my daily life in them.
-For top blanket's crapiness, some hotels answer to this is to have them bright white.
Any other color for it should be banned actually.
-The annoying elevator 'ding' when it reach its level being removed.
Try sleep in a room next to one when that is not the case.
-Proper plugs in locations, either for your laptop or your electrical razor in the bathroom.
-Proper wireless internet connection.
-Descent hotel's breakfast opening hours.
-General cleanliness.
-Not charging stupid amount of $$$ every time you are using the phone.
etc...
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Here's a couple I use (in addition to the above):
- always lift up the top corner of the fitted sheet from the bed to check for bed bugs (any rust-coloured stains indicate their presence);
- never open rollaboard on floor, always use little stand thingie (again for bed bugs)
- always check that alarm is set to a proper station & volume before nodding off.
- for noisy HVAC units, shut them off before sleep, ditto for unplugging noisy mini-fridges
- Always turn shower off by FIRST: making the switch from shower to tub flow, THEN dialing down to off (to avoid serious burns/ass-freezing cold while realizing that this shower H & C dials turn opposite to other shower dials......)
- Always set 3 independent alarms for early-mornings: 1) clock-radio; 2) cell phone; 3) wake up call. I've had each one fail on me from time to time, sometimes 2 at a time, for various reasons...
......and I'll repeat a couple important ones from above:
1 - NEVER drink from the glassware
2 - ALWAYS strip the top cover off the bed (unless white duvet, where cleanliness is easier to evaluate)
OH the glory of a pilot's life...........
- always lift up the top corner of the fitted sheet from the bed to check for bed bugs (any rust-coloured stains indicate their presence);
- never open rollaboard on floor, always use little stand thingie (again for bed bugs)
- always check that alarm is set to a proper station & volume before nodding off.
- for noisy HVAC units, shut them off before sleep, ditto for unplugging noisy mini-fridges
- Always turn shower off by FIRST: making the switch from shower to tub flow, THEN dialing down to off (to avoid serious burns/ass-freezing cold while realizing that this shower H & C dials turn opposite to other shower dials......)
- Always set 3 independent alarms for early-mornings: 1) clock-radio; 2) cell phone; 3) wake up call. I've had each one fail on me from time to time, sometimes 2 at a time, for various reasons...
......and I'll repeat a couple important ones from above:
1 - NEVER drink from the glassware
2 - ALWAYS strip the top cover off the bed (unless white duvet, where cleanliness is easier to evaluate)
OH the glory of a pilot's life...........-
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Why?B-rad wrote:-Put the remote control in a ziplock bag!!!! eww
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Stop being **ssies!
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**ssies with an excuseAuxBatOn wrote:What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Stop being **ssies!
In our civilian's contract it's not written to sleep in the mud eating worms after doing the mandatory 100 push ups.
I'm kidding!
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3 words for the dudes out there (well some of us I guess)
SHALLOW---TOILET---BOWL
SHALLOW---TOILET---BOWL
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