Staying at a hotel seems like it should be a pretty standardized experience, most travelers know that it’s anything but. At the same time, hotels, motels and hostels are all places that seem outside of space and time, where there are just other rules and norms. So it can be nice and entertaining to see that others have had similar thoughts in the past.
We’ve gathered some of the best and most relatable posts on X about people’s experiences staying at hotels. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and stories in the comments section below.
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My mom actually does this every couple of months or so. She calls them her mini vaccinations and we can't disturb her unless it's an emergency. She's a Queen and deserves it. Edit:. Ha 🤣 of , of course I meant vacations. But it looks so funny I will leave it that way. I enjoyed the funny replies to my goof
If you are currently at a hotel, this might ruin the experience a bit, but once you imagine the sheer volume of people who have most likely stayed in the room you are in, it can get a little bit nauseating. After all, even if the staff have the best intentions, can you really trust that they reliably clean it out every single day?
This is perhaps why so many travel bloggers actually spend a good amount of time recommending specific hotels and giving their best tips. These are huge machines behind the scenes, with so many people coming and going.
However, just like that other staple of travel, the airport, hotels have their own, very specific vibe. Many social norms are out the window, the dress code barely exists and eating options can range from the preferences of an eight-year-old in the candy aisle to some pretty disappointing “real” meals.
Actually, that's wrong. Hotels don't make you do housework as well.
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It sure feels like that...I too am afraid to touch the mini bar and some are clearly labeled explaining how closely monitored they are.
In nyc you almost always pay a resort fee even for basic hotels with few amenities. I just booked a hotel 2 weeks ago and many advertised only housekeeping on request!
Really? When I booked 10 hotels online for my trip their quoted rate was inclusive of taxes and fees. So when it said $150 a night it actually cost $300 for two nights. The only thing that bit us was we wanted to extend the stay at once place from 4 to 5 nights and the fifth night was double the price. BUT it was a Friday night so peak rates.
That's just USA. $150 plus federal tax, state tax, local tax, resort fee, tips... in Europe I stay in a $150 a night hotel and I pay $150.
It's not only about charging your phone, either. CPAPs need to be plugged in, and that's medical equipment. I once had to ask a hotel for an extension cord so I could plug mine in. Fortunately, they had one. (They were very gracious about it. The room design was not the staff's fault.)
Despite this fact, the main experience most of us have is a feeling of vague disappointment and a few visuals and smells that we would prefer to never learn more about. And that is ok, in many cases, going to a hotel is something we do because we need to sleep between activities while on vacation. It might not seem like much at first glance, but a meal and a warm room to sleep in goes a long way.
Here we don't have those little bottles of soap etc in hotels, there's a soap and shampoo dispensers on the wall of the shower. We try to reduce the plastic waste.
Curious as to how that would work out, if the shower is more difficult and confusing does the rate increase or decrease? 🤔
Just imagine a kid from Arkansas finding a "surfboard" in a Nebraskan hotel - that's what I call "surrealism"...
Basically pack our entire house up, unpack at the beach. A week later pack it all up and take the entire house back home.
Well, staff needs time to clean a room (or a holiday house). The less time, the poorer the job is done. I live in a tourist area with lots if holiday parks. Everybody here earns extra money by helping with cleaning, and being mostly farmers and fishers, the job is done very well and quick. Not fast enough for tourists, who sometimes stay late and arrive early. Especially the late stayers leave a complete chaos, fridge full, no dishes washed (there is a dishwasher), beds not cleaned up. We can do a 6 person house thoroughly within 1,5 hours, IF they followed the rental instructions. So if you are lucky and your house is the first I did, you can start your holiday at 1 or 2 pm instead of 3 or 4pm.
Oh god, this. When I was staying in a hotel in Shanghai they would show the same ad for the same candy 5 times with 1 minute intervals, show two episodes of a random cartoon, a psa advising to prevent electrical fires, the same candy ad 5 times, an advertisement for some prestigious school, repeat until deemed ready to broadcast Octonauts.
I follow the Mann-Zaltzman rating system. Five-star hotel: pool has a swim-up bar; Four-star hotel: pool has a jacuzzi area; Three-star hotel: pool is full of kids; Two-star hotel: pool is full of dogs; One-star hotel: there's a body in the pool.
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The lights, there are so many switches all over the room, but never enough light to work and when you get in to bed there's always one lamp or wall light you can't switch off from the bed so you get up, turn it off..now it's dark and you can't find your way back to the bed.
switch farthest from bed: controls that one lamp. switch closest to bed: gets most lights. switch in bathroom: another switch for all the rest of the lights except one. switch just outside bathroom door: bathroom light
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The fact that there were no Hazbin Hotel memes here disappoints me greatly.
Hotels everywhere, y’all need 1) Bathroom fans, both for odor/shower fog and to cover up noises; 2) Bathroom night lights, because we’re in unfamiliar territory, 3) more towel racks, so we can let stuff dry and reduce your laundry, and 4) two wash cloths per guest because I’m not using the one on my face that I used on my unmentionables. Thank you.
Not sure why but we boost the heating up a lot but when we sleep we are freezing. To the point that one time we were staying there for a week and we brought our own electric furnace. Mini-Elect...593e4c.jpg 
Eat out you girlfriend if you really need more lactobacillus in your diet, don't listen to random social media scam comments.
Load More Replies... The lights, there are so many switches all over the room, but never enough light to work and when you get in to bed there's always one lamp or wall light you can't switch off from the bed so you get up, turn it off..now it's dark and you can't find your way back to the bed.
switch farthest from bed: controls that one lamp. switch closest to bed: gets most lights. switch in bathroom: another switch for all the rest of the lights except one. switch just outside bathroom door: bathroom light
Load More Replies... The fact that there were no Hazbin Hotel memes here disappoints me greatly.
Hotels everywhere, y’all need 1) Bathroom fans, both for odor/shower fog and to cover up noises; 2) Bathroom night lights, because we’re in unfamiliar territory, 3) more towel racks, so we can let stuff dry and reduce your laundry, and 4) two wash cloths per guest because I’m not using the one on my face that I used on my unmentionables. Thank you.
Not sure why but we boost the heating up a lot but when we sleep we are freezing. To the point that one time we were staying there for a week and we brought our own electric furnace. Mini-Elect...593e4c.jpg
Eat out you girlfriend if you really need more lactobacillus in your diet, don't listen to random social media scam comments.
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