Hotels

A while back I wrote a piece about the wrong way to steal the salt and pepper shakers from Virgin Atlantic. Most people took it with the humor that it …

If you’ve ever stayed at a hotel where a motion sensor controlled the thermostat, you know the unpleasant feeling of walking into a hot room when all you want to …

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that 2020 was a horrible year for hotels. In fact, STR reports that U.S. hotel profitability fell 84.6% that year. 2021? Much better. Maybe not quite …

In 2019, both California and New York began their respective plans of banning single-use toiletries in hotels. California’s ban on single-use toiletries will begin in 2023. That was New York’s …

Hotel chains spend a lot of money on marketing to get you to book a hotel room using its website or app and have resorted to the “carrot and stick” …

If you’ve ever stayed at a high-end hotel, chances are if you wanted Wi-Fi, you had to pay for the privilege. Or, more specifically nowadays, it’s packaged into the “resort …

At the beginning of 2021, I looked back at 2020 and took inventory of our travels. It wasn’t much of a list, but I still tried to spin the situation …

Unless you’re staying in a no-frills place (like the hotel that prides itself on being the worst in the world), chances are good that your hotel is going to offer …

Hotel rooms are advertised to be places of peace, comfort and a good night’s sleep. “Our hotel rooms are designed with comfort and convenience in mind; providing a place to …

There are some people who like to have a little bit of fun with hotel staff, so they purposely put in weird requests before their stay (here are a bunch …