This is a posting I am aiming to write since ages somehow. I visited so many hotels – not just during the Flyctory.com days – and there are still some things I just do not understand. Basic mistakes which too many hotel just do not right. In recent times I ran into a bunch of these point again. Maybe one day, I write a book. Something like Driving a Hotel for Dummies – A Guide from a Frequent Traveler Perspective. So far, I just bother you with this posting – hope you enjoy and also have some fun reading it.
I would definitely also enjoy to discuss some points with you, if you feel I am wrong in them.
Some Things Too Many Hotels Still Do Wrong
Here are the biggest unnecessary frequent pain points in hotels worldwide – happy to discuss with you about my ideas – maybe you got different ones?
We are an Internet Community Now – Give Us WiFi!
At least there are hardly any more hotels who charge you for WiFi nowadays. Still, the availability of a reliable internet connection (where somehow doable) is a must – regardless if it is a simple stay or a posh business place. I recently had a stay in Lübeck, Germany, where they put the “work desk” in to the most far-behind corner of a room of an old house with thick brick walls. The result was… No reception. I had great connection on the loo… But do you want to work there? They called it Business Room. Not sure if that’s the kind of business they meant.

Every Mobile Needs Its Power Socket
The second point on my list even leads to issues in rather posh and luxurious overnights. Nowadays, I feel, you should have at least two power sockets at the work desk plus sockets or at least USB ports next to the bed. The reality of traveling nowadays simply includes a mobile phone and a notebook. It is not just me who wants to recharge overnight, guys! As I am really having very frequent issues with the availability of power plugs, I never travel without a plug strip.
Only The Perfect Does Not Need Feedback
How did you like staying with us? The question is really simple, ain’t it? I just don’t understand why the hotels nowadays more and more don’t ask it. Yeah, these online forms which (for the hotel: hopefully) lead to a good rating at Tripadvisor are popular – but ain’t there a better way to get good feedback than a chat with the guests. Even if there are just minor things, I am always very open to give honest feedback – and to me it is an absolute statement of quality if hotels react well about my thoughts. This doesn’t mean extra frequent customer points for your account, but really thinking about your thoughts.

Breakfast Times Please
Especially for airport hotels and rail hotels, where some guests may have to leave for early connections, this is an extremely valid point: too many hotels fail to give exact breakfast times on their website. Not too rarely, I need an early breakfast to head on on my trip. A very similar issue are parking fees, by the way. Sometimes, booking.com is the only somehow reliable source of truth… But of course, it may not be the channel you booked with.
Housekeeping is an Ambassador To The Guest
I meet the reception at check-in and check-out and maybe at one or two requests during my stay. Then, there is breakfast staff or restaurant employees, which you might meet in the morning and in the evening. Too many hotels underestimate how their housekeeping is a branding your feelings about a stay. Not just having a nicely cleaned room, but also the way they treat the guests when you happen to meet in the hotel. Recently, two house keepers already stepped into an elevator which was already above its Covid-19 capacity, not wearing a mask. These are no gos to me. Even though I assume they might be managed by another company.

A Good Cushion Is Your Premier Business Card
Even though I have so many thoughts about what a good hotel is alike, I could never manage or own one. Some things about guest behavior would drive me mad. Likely, hotel guests also take cushions with them. That’s the only rationale I see why some hotels offer you ridiculously thin and cheap ones, which make you feel like being in a low-cost airline’s economy class. A reasonable cushion is not too expansive. And it gives you a good sleep. Good night means happy guests. Happy guests come back.
I am Travelling, I do have waste
During my recent trip to Iceland, that was a issue at almost any hotel I stayed in: if you are not a very central city hotel and most of your guests come by car, they inevitably have waste in their car. They ate, they drank, they did… whatever. And, finally, they want to get rid of it. I personally feel that dust bins on hotel car parks or at least before you enter the hotel are an absolute must.
You Know When I Left – Housekeeping on Check-Out Day
Yeah, there were these times, when there was no internet, no mobile networks. Even though there were still radio connections during that time, I do understand that it was more difficult to communicate with your staff during work. These times are over since at least fifteen, twenty years. I just don’t get why house keeping is knocking on your door (or is even in your hotel room) at check-out day. Reception should tell them when you are leaving. Not too rarely, they knock the door ridiculously early.
By the way, I had the worst situation recently when house keeping stepped into the neighboring hotel room, which was marked with the good old Do Not Disturb tag. They just stated that too many people forget to take it away, so that they do not care. A nice way to solve it is not link these damned keycard-main power switch things with a display outside the hotel, so that you see if there is somebody in the room. I guess it is a bit different in the US, where you just leave the room at some chains.
Dust Bin, reloaded
In this posting, I feel to be addicted by… Dust. Somehow. Maybe the hotel room’s dust bin is on the top of the list of travelers’ souvenirs – but, hey, I still need one. Not these tiny tampon holders in the bathroom. A proper one. I sometimes eat, drink in a hotel room. I need to get rid of my waste somehow. It is surprising how many hotels still don’t have that simple service in the living / sleeping areas of their rooms.

I Want To Get Out – Emergency Routes
Call me coward – but one thing which especially happened rather frequently during the last twelve months to me is that there was no proper emergency exit route at (or around) the room door. Most of the times, they were missing – at some occasions, they were either wrong or fixed in a way that you have no way to see them in case of fire. I unfortunately can only downgrade hotels in few regions of the world to it, as I am not sure how legally binding this is in other countries. Since I have been to flight crash emergency support training, I am quite aware of how important it is to quickly find the right route in case of fire or any other emergency.
All “classic” blog posts
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The very first show of the Weird Al Yannkovic European Tour 2023 was in Dublin, Ireland. As my employer got ...
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My wife and I went on a trip to Dubrovnik in Croatia in April 2023. As Hilton is generally my ...
The first evening in Pittsburgh during my March 2023 trip had a very easy schedule: land in Pittsburgh Airport (PIT), ...
Having an 11:40 flight from Krakow Airport (KRK) in July 2023, I just did not feel to go for the ...
As part of my overnights bridging the night between two mandatory days at the office in Cologne, my last stay ...
Just a week after I stayed at the Mercure Cologne City Friesenstrasse, I tried out another hotel of the Accor ...
Being on a five-day seminar in Lünen North of Dortmund lead to a comparably long stay at the Hampton by ...
NH Hotels are rolling out a new brand of hotels in Europe: nhow (pronounced as "now") is a group of ...
My last stay during my October 2022 trip to Florida was in Orlando. Even though I visited a Weird Al ...
Akureyri in Northern Iceland is my favorite city of the island. Also as I expected to be there just the ...
Sad and touching moments just need to have a good hotel stay for your soul. For the very last leg ...
During our 2023 Ring Road Trip through Iceland, we had a wide range of stays: from guesthouses to hotel chain ...
Even though Accor is likely the second-most frequented hotel group in my bookings, a night in Bremen in April 2023 ...
For a night after a photo trip to the Harz mountains in January 2023, I had a one night stay ...
Attending a frequent traveler meeting nearby, I had the opportunity to visit the Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt Airport towards the ...
One of the ten concerts I visited of the Weird Al Yankovic European Tour 2023 was at the TivoliVredenburg in ...
In order to explore Hamburg and upgrade my contents about the Northern German city, I had a two night stay ...
What would be a better posting while being on a trip to Pittsburgh than posting about... Pittsburgh. In fact, I ...
Arriving from Germany on my October 2022 trip to the Florida Weird Al Yankovic shows, I needed a hotel close ...
The very first night on my tour-chase of Weird Al Yankovic's very first European Tour since seven years. Regarding this ...
After my - a bit of weird - trip of passing all 16 German states and eleven largest cities of ...
The last hotel I feature from my Weird Al Yankovic Tour Kick-Off trip in April 2022 is the Hampton Inn ...
It is hard to argue against that the Sofitel London Heathrow is the most convenient option when you need a ...
I have been very impressed of the country when I visited Albania for the very first time in December 2022 ...
Reporting from Davis Cup tie typically requires a reasonable hotel with sufficient space for all the equipment, good food and ...
For a trip to Pinneberg just outside Hamburg, I needed a stay close to one of Hamburg's regional train stations ...
The Wasserturm in my home town Cologne is indeed one of the most iconic hotels of the city. Literally, the ...
Even though it nominally was the lowest standard hotel of my short trip, I was really looking forward to the ...
Weird Al Yankovic made me travel to a couple of weird US places in my life. Like Poughkeepsie, a place ...
I am typically a Hilton Hotels guy - this is also the reason why most of the hotels I visited ...
In early October 2022, my wife and I had our very first trip to Cyprus. For the first two nights, ...
The night before I headed to Lillehammer for the Tennis Davis Cup tie Norway vs. India, I had a night ...
Saving my Melia frequent traveler points and doing some research for Flyctory.com were two really good reasons to try out ...
My review category Hotels & Accommodation in fact only features hotels so far. Thus, the review of Holiday Home Wonderland is some sort ...
It took me quite a while to finally complete the review of the DoubleTree by Hilton Dubai Business Bay. My ...
Second stay on the "hunt" for some budget nights around Nashville: after I had two nights at the Hampton Inn ...
In order to explore downtown and the central sights of Kansas City, I opted for the Hampton Inn & Suites ...
In July 2022, I went to Paola in Kansas in order to explore the home town of the (fictive) female ...
In April 2022, I went to Warsaw to see my favorite musical Rock of Ages. In order to stay being able ...
In June 2022, I had a night at the Premier Inn London Paddington Basin. The booking was quite short-noticed after ...
While I typically prefer Hilton Hotels, I had the last night of my March 2022 trip with the Pittsburgh Penguins ...
As part of a business trip to Paris, I had two nights in the Le Belgrand Hotel Paris Champs Elysees ...
For a Saturday evening show at The O2 in London, I have been looking for a reasonably priced hotel with ...
In order to watch some matches at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships, my wife and I stayed in Helsinki ...
Quite some hectic a few weeks before I actually visited my favorite musical Rock of Ages again. After the show has been ...
Even though Mannheim is not too much of a touristic highlight in Germany, it is a very important rail traffic ...
The very first night of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022 lead me to New York City. Finally, my ...
Gdansk is simply a beautiful Polish city, right at the Baltic Sea. I already took you on a walk through ...
The reason why I traveled to Hamburg in March was a German show of my favorite musical Rock of Ages in nearby ...
For the last two nights of my trip to the Northern United Arab Emirates, I chose to go for two ...
Trying out another hotel brand: after I had stayed at quite a bunch of Premier Inn Hotel locations in England ...
In January 2022, I had a rail trip to Munich. As I arrived rather late, the Hampton by Hilton Munich ...
Doing Christmas shopping with a hotel room around? Right next to Germany's largest shopping mall, the Westfield Centro in Oberhausen, ...
Right after arriving at Toronto-Pearson Airport (YYZ) in November 2021, my wife and I headed to the TownePlace Suites Mississauga-Airport ...
Watching the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Scotiabank Arena at the Toronto Maple Leafs in November 2021, my wife and I ...
Due to rail strikes, I had to re-plan my whole trip to Frankfurt Airport before heading to Canada. I finally ...
Even though I have a (low) status at Melia Hotels, my experience with the brand is rather mixed. The more, ...
New regional carrier: since mid-2021, Bolzano Airport (BZO) is operating scheduled flights with their own carrier, SkyAlps. For an early ...
In July 2021, I wanted to explore some of the rather centrally located attractions of Berlin. Due to its good ...
A 16th century palace, which has been renovated in the late 1990's and turned into a posh hotel - apart ...
Having a prolonged relaxing weekend in the Austrian Alps - this was about the thoughts we had about a stay ...
Arriving from Krakow testing the Polish EIP high-speed train and heading on to Berlin with the Berlin-Warsaw Express - all ...
You might struggle with that statement intiially, but in fact the city of Oswiecim is likely one of the globally ...
Apart from several stays around the terminals, Frankfurt Airport nowadays features four airport hotels with direct walk-in connection to Terminal ...
Located right at the River Rhine, the Hyatt Regency is one of the most iconic and also one of the ...
I had the first night of my June 2021 trip to the Emilia-Romagna region right in the South of Lombardy, ...
At the end of an interesting trip in June 2021, I stayed at the Mercure Hotel Hannover (Hanover) City. I ...
The reason why I decided to go to Graz in July 2021 was a hotel. Or to be more precisely: ...
The hotel situation at Cologne / Bonn Airport used to be quite bothering. There used to be a single hotel ...
There are these moments in my traveler's life where I just feel I have to go for a certain thing ...
For a trip to Lower Saxony in early June 2021, I needed a stay in Hanover / Hannover close to ...
Port Soller or Port de Soller is named to be one of the most beautiful places on Mallorca. The trip from ...
There is always (mostly?) a second chance at Flyctory.com: After I haven't been too pleased with my first ever IntercityHotel ...
When people visit the United Arab Emirates, they typically think about Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The more I got into ...
For my two day summer stage to Venice, I had one night at the Hotel Abbazia in the heart of ...
The limited travel intensity during summer and fall 2020 lead to some interesting budget travel opportunities. During a trip to ...
Hard to believe - but when I selected the Santa Catalina, a Royal Hideaway Hotel, in Las Palmas for my ...
I haven't been to too many hotels which are featured in own wikipedia articles in my life. One stay, at ...
Due to the early departure of an ECE 451 ride from Frankfurt to Milan in September 2020, I looked for ...
Before Germany went to a lock-down of touristic travel in November 2020, I had a short trip to Munich. For ...
For a stay in September 2020, I tested the Hilton Garden Inn Munich City West for two nights, Friday to ...
The first "real" night of my Four Countries, Four Trains trip to Italy in summer 2020 lead me to Milan. As ...
I would say that the opening of the Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Terminal 2/3 has been one of the ...
After we visited a couple of hotels in Bonn, we finally wanted to check out the only five star one ...
As I delayed some reviews after I saw that Covid-19 will have a significant impact on us and our travel ...
During a July 2020 trip through the Netherlands, I had two nights at the NH Collection Hotel Eindhoven Centre, right ...
With the Covid-19 situation easing and travel restrictions more and more lifted, I was happy to have a trip to ...
For my June 2020 stay in the Salzburger Land / Berchtesgadener Land area, I decided to go for two nights ...
Some of my hobbies are travelling, civil aviation incl. historic planes and hotels - so having a plane which has ...
After I had some stays at Hilton Munich Airport in the past, I was happy to be back in this ...
As part of a business trip to Zurich in November (during which I also featured the James Barker Band show), ...
During my trip to Chicago and Indianapolis, I spent the first night as a transfer in Schererville in Northwest Indiana, ...
For my November 2019 stay in Dubai, I decided to also gain some more experience on the Northern and Eastern ...
As an overnight stay after the Mrs Greenbird concert in Frankfurt, I decided to opt for a hotel chain, which ...
In order to see one edition of the "Introducing Nashville" show (I have been on Tenerife during the German ones), ...
While I am typically more of a Hilton Hotels person, I chose a Marriott Group hotel for my stay in ...
I was visiting Belfast in later June 2019 in order to watch some shows of my favorite musical, Rock of ...
As part of a business trip to Singapore, I chose to have a longer stay in the So/ Sofitel in ...
I originally planned to visit Kuala Lumpur on a daytrip from Singapore. As the Malaysian hotel prices significantly beat the ...
After I made my trip to Nashville, my stay during the CMA Fest 2019 was the Hampton Inn Nashville-Airport. I ...
After flying from Washington (DCA) to Chattanooga (CHA), my first night on my trip to Nashville in 2019 was in ...
After some searching and looking for reviews in different sources, I finally opted for the One Farrer Hotel for my ...
Due to a career event of my wife, we had to travel to the trade fair area of Hanover in ...
For my floorball trip to the the Swiss Women matches between the Floorball Riders and Appelnzell and Frauenfeld vs. Jets, ...
Glasgow is becoming a more and more frequent destination for me. Very often, my visits are linked to music. For ...
During a business-related trip to Switzerland's economic capital, I stayed at Novotel Zurich Airport Messe (Trade Fair). Apart from attractive ...
One of my favorite places on Tenerife is definitely its historic capital, San Cristobal de La Laguna. Gran Hotel La ...
With my favourte musical, Rock of Ages, touring again through the UK, just a week after I saw Catherine McGrath ...
During the Serbia-India Davis Cup tie in Kraljevo, I stayed in Garni Hotel Crystal. It is just a Garni / ...
As I had to join two workshops in the Zurich offices of the company I am working for, I chose ...
A five star stay in the lovely islands in the Azores capital, Ponta Delgada? Sounded like a nice sleep for ...