I watched this and it doesn't seem like anti-patterns to me? I spend more time in hotels than most and ironing boards, closets, minibars, and "bigger rooms" are not things I care about. I don't hang out in the room; it's a box I enter to shower and sleep.

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michaelt 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It depends on the market you're aiming for.

A younger, lone traveller staying 2-3 nights is probably going to be out doing things in the day, and in the evening. And they won't have much luggage either.

Elderly travellers might not have the same level of energy; they might prefer to spend a few hours quietly relaxing with a book. And they might want an armchair per person, rather than sitting on the bed to read.

Business travellers might need somewhere to set up a laptop and work from, power, decent internet connectivity, and someplace they can iron some shirts.

Longer-term travellers (e.g. someone visiting a city to supervise like the building of a warehouse) will have more luggage, and they'll want to make themselves a bit more at home - they won't be out on the town every night for a month. They're more likely to use the hotel gym.

For some people, holidays are all about relaxing and doing things at a leisurely pace. Perhaps they want to spend the morning sitting on a balcony reading the newspaper - if you have a balcony.

For couples on honeymoon, they might want a nice room with a great bed.

Families might have two children and two adults sharing a room, with the children going to bed earlier and the adults sorta hanging out nearby; in this market, the hotel room sofa might fold out into two beds suitable for under-10s.

And of course, if you want to target all of these markets at the same time you end up with the classic cluttered hotel room with wardrobe, desk, desk chair, armchair, bedside tables, reading lamp, ironing board, TV, etc etc etc

	▲	ghaff 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For me, in addition to a clean comfortable bed, and a good shower (I don't like a deep bathtub I need to step into), I like having a desk and at least a comfortable chair (ideally a sofa). Of course, now we're getting into a fair fit of space in a dense city.

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nimih 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't hang out in my hotel rooms either, but an iron, ironing board, and closet with hangars help me not look like a slob when I want to put on some nice clothes and go out for the evening.

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hdgvhicv 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Things I want, Socket next to bed, light switch next to bed, decent mattress and pillow, blackout blinds, no noise from next door/corridor

I do like a good shower too, rather than those stupid bath things like it’s the 1980s, and get rid of American hotels which seem to be allergic to providing shower gel

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al_borland 10 hours ago | parent [-]

It blows my mind that sockets on the nightstand aren’t standard by now.

I just stayed at the Westin in Rome, supposedly a 5 star place, but I don’t think it’s been updated in 30 years. I had to move the nightstand and unplug a lamp, so I could plug my phone in next to the bed. So go get my phone socket I had to lose the lamp. It didn’t even have an alarm clock on the nightstand; there would have been nowhere to plug it in. Maybe they expect everyone to get a wake up call, but the phone was across the room too.

I used to travel with a little power strip, but stopped since I never actually used it. That place needed one badly.

It did have bathroom door though, so it had that going for it.

	▲	toast0 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I just stayed at the Westin in Rome, supposedly a 5 star place, but I don’t think it’s been updated in 30 years Nobody comes and takes your stars away. They earned them once and they're still using them.
	▲	thaumasiotes 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Maybe they expect everyone to get a wake up call, but the phone was across the room too. For a wakeup call, that's an advantage.

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raw_anon_1111 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When I use to travel for work, I exclusively stayed in Embassy Suites because it didn’t feel like a shoebox and it gave me space to decompress after a full day of active like I like people.

Even now that I work remotely, my wife and I might spend a week back home in Atlanta where our adult children and friends live. We “live” in the hotel like we live at home. I’m usually working during the day, she might hang out with other friends who don’t work during the day and we plan things at night.

It’s really nice to have the space of a Hyatt House/Homewood Suites.

Even when we go on vacation we don’t have a jam packed scheduled where we have to be doing something every minute.