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  • Hotels

    5 Hotel Room Basics That Shouldn’t Be This Hard

    by joeheg November 23, 2025
    by joeheg November 23, 2025

    Hotels spend a ton of time and money trying to figure out what their guests want the most. They send surveys asking how your stay was and have you rate …

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    That Useless Strip of Fabric at the End of Hotel Beds? It Actually Has a Purpose

    by SharonKurheg November 15, 2025
    by SharonKurheg November 15, 2025

    Many hotels have a wide piece of thick fabric or cloth at the end of the bed. You’ve probably seen them a bajillion times but toss them off in the …

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    Are Hotel Rooms Secretly Shrinking? (Spoiler: Yes, And There’s a Reason)

    by joeheg November 14, 2025
    by joeheg November 14, 2025

    For years, travelers have joked that European hotel rooms are so small you can touch every wall without even getting out of bed. In London, Paris or Munich, it’s just …

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    Careful: Your Hotel Room’s “Private Bathroom” Is Not Always As Private As You’d Think

    by SharonKurheg September 24, 2025
    by SharonKurheg September 24, 2025

    When you’re booking a hotel room, most people have certain things in mind. After determining what brand and price works best, most people pay the most attention to the actual …

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    Hotel Designers, Please Stop Doing This

    by joeheg August 31, 2025
    by joeheg August 31, 2025

    Hotel designers have a tough job. Either you’re trying to make a cookie-cutter hotel room seem interesting and inviting, or you have to shoehorn a design into a hotel that …

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    Hotel Room Light Switches: The Escape Room Nobody Asked For

    by joeheg August 30, 2025
    by joeheg August 30, 2025

    Turning on the lights in a hotel room shouldn’t feel like solving a puzzle. Yet somehow it always does. You flip the switch by the door and—nothing. Well, not nothing, …

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  • Hotels

    Why Hotels Don’t Leave Bibles In Their Rooms Anymore

    by SharonKurheg July 26, 2025
    by SharonKurheg July 26, 2025

    If you stay in a hotel room in the U.S. or many other countries of the world, you’ll sometimes find a “Hotel Bible” or sometimes more commonly known as a …

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  • Hotels

    Why Don’t Most Hotel Rooms In The U.S. Have Ceiling Lights?

    by SharonKurheg July 5, 2025
    by SharonKurheg July 5, 2025

    Have you ever been in a hotel room in the U.S. and noticed that there are lights in just about every place you can imagine…on the dresser, nightstands and desk, …

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    Are The Corner Rooms in Hotels Really Bigger?

    by SharonKurheg June 4, 2025
    by SharonKurheg June 4, 2025

    Years ago, before my husband Joe and I were a couple, we were part of a large group of friends who would sometimes travel together. We – males and females …

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    Hotel Room Upgrade? Here’s How to See If They’re Bluffing

    by joeheg May 26, 2025
    by joeheg May 26, 2025

    You know the drill. You check in, the front desk agent gives you a big smile and says, “Because of your status, we’ve gone ahead and upgraded you to a …

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