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Anonymous wrote:All these pages in, and nobody has mentioned the “fresh” towels stored in a rack directly over the toilet?

Most of us aren’t germophobes.

Puerile name calling aside, even non-“germaphobes” tend to find the idea of a towel dosed with aerosolized sewage at least a little gross.

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by poor level of privacy for the toilet. The toilet is in the bathroom -- what more privacy do you want?

DP here. I’ve stayed in hotels where the toilet was separated from the main room by a flimsy separator (not a wall nor a door). This meant someone in the room could hear everything going on in the bathroom!

Anonymous wrote:All these pages in, and nobody has mentioned the “fresh” towels stored in a rack directly over the toilet?

I despise this with a white hot passion. Microscopic flecks of waste all over the “clean” towels. SO GROSS!

Didn’t read the whole thread, but my gripes with hotel bathrooms are sliding doors that don’t completely shut and if a shower/bath needs instructions for operation, it’s probably a terrible design!

Anonymous wrote:You need to diversify.

Include an overnight train in India. You will be thankful for every other bathroom you encounter.

I’ve traveled plenty in places with little to no sanitation. But when I’m paying a lot of money for a hotel that claims to be “luxury” I’d like them to have spent a bit on a designer who actually thought things through.

Anonymous wrote:You need to diversify.

Include an overnight train in India. You will be thankful for every other bathroom you encounter.

Ha. probably true. I will never do that.

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Anonymous wrote:I had no idea there's women who don't use conditioner. Mind blown! What kind of hair do you have? I suppose East Asian hair maybe? My kids even use conditioner from like 2+ and we have fine hair.

I think people who just naturally have more oily skin/hair don’t need conditioner as much. Conditioner replaces our natural oils which we wash out, but some people’s skin just produces oil more than others’.

I have very oily skin and hair, but since my hair is mid back length, I have to use conditioner every time. I just avoid putting it on the scalp area, but if I don't use it, it's a bear to comb out my wet hair. And I love soaps that dry out my skin. I never get to feel non-oily skin, so the hour after I wash my face is heavenly. I know this is the opposite of most women's goals for soap and the ads cater to soaps not drying out your skin.

The last 5 hotels I've stayed at have not had a towel bar/hook within easy reach of the shower. So I've had to either fling the towel over the shower door or curtain rod and hope it doesn't get wet, or set it on top of the toilet.

You need to diversify.

Include an overnight train in India. You will be thankful for every other bathroom you encounter.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is no or only one nightstand by the bed. Plus no plugs. I bring my own power strip, but it’s annoying to have to leave my phone on the floor or across the room.

We have been on a road trip, and discovered the Hilton brand called Tru. They’re pretty minimalistic and the rooms are small, but it’s the first hotel I’ve stayed in where it actually feels like someone who had actually stayed in a hotel gave some thought to the design. I looked it up on line and that is the case. They’re not luxurious, but perfect for one night or two as you pass through a place.

https://www.hilton.com/en/corporate/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/16-0803_Tru_DevelopmentGuide_v1.1.pdf

+1

Hilton FTW!

Are there no windows in the guest rooms? That’s not a win to me

The Staunton Tru had a huge window.

Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is no or only one nightstand by the bed. Plus no plugs. I bring my own power strip, but it’s annoying to have to leave my phone on the floor or across the room.

We have been on a road trip, and discovered the Hilton brand called Tru. They’re pretty minimalistic and the rooms are small, but it’s the first hotel I’ve stayed in where it actually feels like someone who had actually stayed in a hotel gave some thought to the design. I looked it up on line and that is the case. They’re not luxurious, but perfect for one night or two as you pass through a place.

https://www.hilton.com/en/corporate/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/16-0803_Tru_DevelopmentGuide_v1.1.pdf

I like Tru. No carpet, so the floors feel cleaner. Pegs by the door to hang jacket and purse and lots of comfortable lobby seating. Breakfast wasn't bad for self serve.

I stayed at the one in Staunton for a month and it wasn't a bad temporary home. Now I search them out when we are on a road trip, just for the cleanliness.

I was just in a hotel that had great reviews and when I got there I encountered the dreaded barn door to the bathroom. I remember thinking “how could all these people review this hotel and fail to mention this monstrosity?” I would like a website where you can set this as a choice as in “filter out all hotel rooms with a barn door to the bathroom”.

I stayed in a hotel in the Galapagos where the wall between the bathroom and the room stopped about 2 feet short of the ceiling. You couldn’t look over it (the room had very high ceilings, so it was still like an 8ft high wall) but it did nothing to control noise or smell. So stupid.

Anonymous wrote:All these pages in, and nobody has mentioned the “fresh” towels stored in a rack directly over the toilet?

Most of us aren’t germophobes.

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Anonymous wrote:My hotel complaints (US and abroad):
1. Real door on the bathroom, that closes, not a barn door
2. Light switches INSIDE the bathroom, so when I get up in the middle of the night to pee, I don't wake the entire room
3. Shower door or shower curtain, no half glass door
4. More hooks, put them on the door, behind the door or in an odd place in the room - with 4 of us, we need places to hang the wet towels
5. And now I'm nit-picking, heat and A/C that aren't blowing on you while in bed

Why are 4 people in one room??!

This might be the craziest response in the whole post. Why wouldn't 4 people be in a hotel room? Someplace (where allowed) we even do my family of 6 in one hotel room.

(Unless of course you meant 4 people in one bathroom at the same time, and yes, there's typically no need for that, LOL.)

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by poor level of privacy for the toilet. The toilet is in the bathroom -- what more privacy do you want?

Not in the Pendry in San Diego. Toliet has a glass wall for all to see in the room same with the shower.

This hotel also had candles all over the hotel it is amazing it never burned down.