25 People Share Their Hotel Hacks And Traveling Might Never Be The Same Again

that my friend, is great advise

Ex hotel employee here! It MIGHT work, if you need a generic iPhone charger. No luck for Androids, sorry... But most times you would have to specify where and when you think you lost "your" charger. It's better to be honest and say you forgot your charger and may you please borrow one.

When you are a thief....

Yes we do. Lol. I'm a Front Desk at a hotel.

But isn’t that stealing? Or am I misunderstanding?

Except hangers don't come off the closet rod anymore.....

Kudos to all hotels with proper blinds!

This is what we flight attendants do when we have to sleep during the day and do the red eyes. Genius.

what is the point of this anyway?

You could also put OFFICE PAPERWORK CLIPPIES in you suit cases.

Now that's good to be prepared for.

Not true. Certainly not at the many, many, many hotels I stayed in for international work + travel in the EU. Also asking for an upgrade yourself sometimes works & sometimes you actually get lucky with a room upgrade :-)

Instead of just saying 'no thank you', I'd say 'no thank you, I wish, but it's just not in my budget'.

next time and the y

Also true with rental cars.

I always carry individually wrapped antiseptic wipes. As a dog owner I've found them to be a very good idea just generally.. The packaging can be recyled on these. EDIT: and the wipes are as well with the ones I use. I only mentioned packaging as I was looking at that large plastic container in the photo.

And eventually end up like 'the boy in the bubble'? Nope, certainly not, I'd rather build up my bacterial resistance. Offcourse NOT saying I welcome dirty hotels, bad housekeeping, grime & lick toilet seats or wash my face in public toilets :-) But I certainly think some people tend to overdo cleanliness a little bit :-)

hey dude ~~ thanks for contributing to the growth of super-resistant resistant bacteria, squandering lots of resources {the plastic outer packaging alone not to mention what the wipes themselves are made of], and creating a personal landfill of trash when you could just, i dunno, WASH YOUR FREAKIN' HANDS once in a while instead of trying to sanitize the world. You did not learn this in hospital admissions. Hospital staff practice hand hygiene rather than futilely trying to disinfect the entire freakin' planet. Bet your local pharmacy staff cheers when you visit ~~ it's the germophobe dude. Wonder what what we can scare him into buying today? https://www.futurity.org/iscrub-app-keeps-tabs-on-hand-washing/

I recommend antiseptic agents for the hands. Much smaller in size, also good when having food at the airport, after using public toilets, etc. When you need a wetwipe, just put some on a piece of toilet paper.

Paranoia Putz rides again.

That power splitter looks very concerned.

I always travel with a power strip.

The majority of the lamps in the hotels I stayed had an outlet in them (including USB), so I never had to struggle with a choice "let it be light" or "my phone's about to die".

I don’t think your power splitter likes to travel

Handy. It even has 2 USB ports. I've never seen one of those.

I've never been in a hotel where you had to turn on the electricity in the room. Where does this happen?