Hotel Nightmares (well gripes)

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Flared Hicks said:
Don’t they have to enter your passport, bank card, home address & telephone details into the unencrypted cloud hosted weak protected database as well?
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That's already uploaded to the dark web when you check in.

To that end, I had a brand new Amex card that I used to book a room over the phone at the Maidenhead Holiday Inn. I hadn't even had a chance to use it again before Amex contacted me and asked me if I'd blown £600 on clobber at some online retailer.

Just read the post I originally quoted. My gripe is with check out where there is practically fuck all to do and they still string it out.
 
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Patch said:
That's already uploaded to the dark web when you check in.

To that end, I had a brand new Amex card that I used to book a room over the phone at the Maidenhead Holiday Inn. I hadn't even had a chance to use it again before Amex contacted me and asked me if I'd blown £600 on clobber at some online retailer.

Just read the post I originally quoted. My gripe is with check out where there is practically fuck all to do and they still string it out.
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Express checkout is your friend here.

The downside is I have a drawer full of room cards I’ve inadvertently walked away with.
 
I discovered last night that the bedside ‘reading light’ will not function unless one also uses a switch on the wall next to the door, meaning one has to exit the bed, walk around the beds (two singles) to the door, switch off the light then walk back to the bed in pitch darkness. All very ‘so f***ing what, waddya want; a remote control’ etc ...except why have two bedside lamps and two over-the-bed reading spotlights if none of them work unless you go to the other side of the room!?

So. Now I discover - at old man piss in the middle of the night time - that the bathroom/toilet light doesn’t work unless you first walk to the opposite side of the room to the same switches on the wall next to the door. Two journeys in total darkness, bumping into the bed I’m not sleeping in, an emergency stop to deal with a potential thigh cramp (did I mention I’m old), one attempted piss, a clumsily knocked over bedside glass of water and a soaked carpet later and I realise that the only way to turn the f***ing bathroom fan off is to go to the bastard switches at the other side of the room again!!!
 
Sidewinder2 said:
Another one for sockets and lights.

Especially the lights where you have to put the key card in and then there's about 5 switches.

Fuck off man I don't get home and have to stick my apartment keys in a little slot before I can turn my lights on. A slot I can't find because its f***ing dark because I can't turn the f***ing light on !!!!



When the snow was bad I was going to stay in the one in Newcastle. They said it was £10 for a single room or £20 if I wanted a window........

I went somewhere else
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Bring an old credit or debit card . They work just as well
 
Lack of plugs annoys me too but it's mainly the fact you never have one next to your bed for your phone.

Locked down inputs on the tvs so I can't plug a laptop in and watch Netflix. I've found that most can be unlocked if you Google it though.
 
I travel a lot for work, so I’ve grown to like some chains more than others. Personally, I’ve always found Premier Inns spot on, but I dislike Travelodge.
 
George Kaplan said:
I travel far too much for work and stay in hotels.

There are numerous things that bug the fuck out of me regarding a night at her average ‘business’ hotel:

• the modern propensity for ‘informality’ at check in. I want somebody in a uniform BEHIND a counter to say ‘good evening sir’ and deal with me efficiently. I’m knackered. I just want my key. I DON’T want a 15 year old casually dressed hipster with a lanyard standing at a workstation in FRONT of the counter showing me how to log in and create my own key card whilst saying ‘you guys’ to the people who came in after me.
• room service. I’m knackered. I don’t want to spend the entire evening staring into space in your shite restaurant so please at least get my order correct when I eat in my room so I don’t have to keep calling for cutlery or my missing coke. It’s bad enough I have to eat burger or pizza every night coz your menu is crap but at least give me the burger or pizza I actually ordered.
• clean the room
• can I have some LIGHT please. All this strategically positioned mood spot-lighting may be fab for creating that romantic feel but I can’t f***ing SEE anything. Is it coz the light would demonstrate that you’d failed to achieve the bullet point above this one.
• I f***ing KNOW what a buffet breakfast is. I can see what’s on the counter. I don’t need it described in detail and escorting to a table like you are escorting every single individual customer to a table after checking their name and room number which just results in every single individual customer standing waiting for you to come back from showing the previous customer to a table that you could have just POINTED AT!
• It’s too hot.
• it’s too cold
• Those bottles of shampoo that you fix to the wall so people don’t fuck off with the little bottles are all very well. But maybe they could be better designed so you don’t have to be so manually dexterous to get a smidgeon of soap on the tip of your finger whilst you try not to soak the whole floor with a shower head that won’t stay on the wall.


Any more?

The biggest gripe for me is LIGHT. But I’m visually impaired (to a degree) so it’s a bugger for me.

PS : TLDR
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:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Love it.
 
RossTheNinja said:
Nescafe. This does not count as coffee, you're fooling no-one.

Tiny TVs with remotes that don't work properly.

Broken air con and recently built hotels that don't even have air con.
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The remote controls! You need to hammer the buttons in order for it to take any sort of action. Then you’ve pressed it too many times...
 

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