Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 14:02     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Anonymous wrote:Location, clean, quiet.

I actually seek out hotels with NO free breakfast because they tend to be quieter overall - I think most people with kids avoid the places with no breakfast. I have kids too but none of us are big on breakfast. We will typically eat something small we bring with us (like a granola bar, PB crackers, or banana) just to get us going in the AM and then go out for an early lunch.



lol, I'm one of those who prefers breakfast included since it saves so much time, but I sometimes wonder if its worth spending the extra $80 - most of the places offer the same pancakes, oatmeal, fruits, muffins, granola bars, scrambled egg, sausages, cereal, juice and milk.

Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:52     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Location, clean, quiet.

I actually seek out hotels with NO free breakfast because they tend to be quieter overall - I think most people with kids avoid the places with no breakfast. I have kids too but none of us are big on breakfast. We will typically eat something small we bring with us (like a granola bar, PB crackers, or banana) just to get us going in the AM and then go out for an early lunch.

Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:49     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
True bathroom door.

Balcony if a leisure trip, I don’t need ocean front but a non parking lot view is nice.

Lively bar/restaurant if business trip, easy meals after long days of travel.

Don’t care about - in room coffee or free breakfast.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:10     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Anonymous wrote:Clean.
Quiet.
Decent bed/pillows.
Decent lighting.

That's it.

And decent water pressure/temperature/towels.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:09     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Clean.
Quiet.
Decent bed/pillows.
Decent lighting.

That's it.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:04     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Anonymous wrote:I hate shower/tub combos. The shower curtains gross me out, water gets on the floor, etc. I MUCH prefer walk in showers.


Totally. Hate shower curtains!
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:03     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Anonymous wrote:I see some of you mention coffee maker.

How many of you use the in room coffee machine?


I use Nespresso machines in upscale hotels if I can either store milk or they have half and half pods. I don't like Keurigs and I don't like coffee without milk so that limits my in room coffee drinking. Most of the hotels I stay in for work have Nespresso machines.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:00     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Plentiful towels. I know you can ask for more but I need two towels for a shower - hair and body.

Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 12:57     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Anonymous wrote:I hate shower/tub combos. The shower curtains gross me out, water gets on the floor, etc. I MUCH prefer walk in showers.


I'm just the opposite. I hate walk in showers because I have a tub at home.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 12:57     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We're usually traveling with elementary age kids, so our number one must have is a suite or similar. A refrigerator/kitchen is nice, a pool is great. Location is negotiable as long as it's in the general area, view is irrelevant.


+1.

I wish they were more family-style rooms in the US. It's the number one reason we use airbnb or vrbo instead. Packing all of us together into one room sucks, and many hotels will not guarantee adjoining rooms.


I have this problem too but I think it’s just about profitability. We’re not enough of the hotel room market.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 12:50     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
I hate shower/tub combos. The shower curtains gross me out, water gets on the floor, etc. I MUCH prefer walk in showers.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 12:29     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Anonymous wrote:We're usually traveling with elementary age kids, so our number one must have is a suite or similar. A refrigerator/kitchen is nice, a pool is great. Location is negotiable as long as it's in the general area, view is irrelevant.


+1.

I wish they were more family-style rooms in the US. It's the number one reason we use airbnb or vrbo instead. Packing all of us together into one room sucks, and many hotels will not guarantee adjoining rooms.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 12:27     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
I use the coffee maker 50% of the time whether its a pod or not. I don't care if it's kind of dirty honestly. I think being freaked out about cleanliness is a lot of stress for very little return. I just don't think about it beyond the basics of food safety and obvious soiling. I do not think there have been any negative consequences.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 12:23     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I see some of you mention coffee maker.

How many of you use the in room coffee machine?


Right? I never use it because 95% of the time it is a pod. Gross.


I agree that it is gross but not because it’s a pod. It’s because you know it’s never cleaned.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 12:20     Subject: What is important to you in a hotel room?
Anonymous wrote:I see some of you mention coffee maker.

How many of you use the in room coffee machine?


Right? I never use it because 95% of the time it is a pod. Gross.