Messy, smelly rooms, thin toilet paper and outrageous parking charges are some of the things that drive us crazy about hotel stays.
A company called PhotoAiD surveyed more than 1,000 travellers to find out what drives them crazy about hotels.
The biggest pet peeve for hotel visitors was an unclean room, cited by 48.85% of respondents. Closely behind, and directly related, was a hotel room with a bad smell (48.65%).
(Our kids still laugh at the time we were driving home to Toronto from a March break visit to Florida and stopped at an inexpensive chain hotel for the night. It was the last room they had and it was disgusting; with cigarette burns in the bedspread, and wet towels in a bathtub that was clogged with hair. We slept in our clothes on top of the bed and scampered out first thing the next day.)
Right behind those two annoyances was having guests fail to follow COVID protocols, listed by 48.29% of respondents.
A close fourth in the “pain in the butt” department was one-ply toilet paper, listed by 48.25% of those surveyed, followed by unexpected hotel feels (48.24%) and hotel key cards that don’t always work (47.66%), which is really annoying late at night when your room is at the far end of a long corridor on a high floor with a slow elevator.
A clogged shower or sink was cited by 47.56% of respondents, while slow internet or being forced to pay for Wi-Fi was listed by 47.51%.
Other annoyances cited by a large number of those surveyed were:
– too few electrical outlets, or outlets that are hard to reach (47.07%);
– uncomfortable beds, pillows or blankets (also 47.07%); and,
– exorbitant parking fees (46.77%).
I understand pretty much all of those. As someone who uses their laptop everyday and relies heavily on their cell phone, I also gnash my teeth at hotels that make me crawl around on the floor and move desks that weigh as much as the Titanic or unplug the desk lamp in order to find an open electrical outlet.
I’ll also cite low water pressure in a shower as an annoying feature, as long as we’re at it. I get that it makes sense in areas with water shortages, such as California, but I still hate those showers that trickle water down your neck and force you to work too hard to rinse what remains of your hair.
What drives YOU crazy about hotels? Drop me a line in the comments section of this blog.
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