Hotel gurus Mr and Mrs Smith recently shared their secrets as to How Smith finds hotels on their engaging blog. Mrs Smith is a Cool Travel Guide reader and after she recently commented on my post Don’t judge a guidebook by its cover: judge it by its author, I asked her how she selects hotels. Mr and … Read more about How travel writers ‘discover’ hotels
We hope you enjoyed our series ’10 things that annoy us about hotels’. If you missed it, you can read all 10 posts here. A big thank you to the hoteliers who responded to our gripes with some explanation as to why hotels do the things they do, and in some cases, how their hotels … Read more about 10 things that annoy us about hotels: oh, yes, there’s more…
We’re used to the 2pm or 3pm check-in time and noon check-out, although we’ve never been happy with them. But it appears the time you actually have in the hotel room is shrinking further. We’ve recently had 10am and 10.30am check-out times – which is fine for a roadside motel, but not so cool for … Read more about 10 things that annoy us about hotels #10 Check in and check out times and never the twain shall meet…
Lately we’ve been checking into some gorgeous grand old piles – with varying states of upkeep. While we love those old radios that they sometimes have above the headboard, the other anonymous switches that old hotels have drive us crazy. If these butler buttons haven’t worked since 1965, it might be time to rip them … Read more about 10 things that annoy us about hotels #9 Switches, buttons, knobs and other anomalies
By Terence Carter* From our series of posts of 10 things that annoy us about hotels, you might think we have a love-hate relationship with technology. We don’t. It’s just the misuse or poor implementation of technology in hotels that drives us crazy. Lara and I couldn’t do what we do without technology. Technology allows … Read more about Microsoft ‘innovates’ at the Sheraton