When you book a hotel room, you often look for the best-priced rooms – which can end up being the worst that they have to offer. A hotel could be pushing one price and showing pictures of beautiful rooms, but it may end up being that the low price is for the rooms that the hotel still hasn’t renovated, while the pictures are of the newer ones.
You can always flat out ask for an upgrade to make sure you wind up with one of the nicer suites, or you simply ask if they have any other options for you to see before they stick you with one room in particular.
Toothbrush Holder
While bathroom counters are one of the first things that hotel maids sanitize after every checkout, you still don’t want to trust it enough to lay your toothbrush on it, unprotected. If you don’t have a toothbrush holder, you can still make sure it stays safe and free of germs by using this hack.
Just unwrap one of the paper coffee cups, flip it upside down, poke a hole through the center, and jam the toothbrush through. It will work perfectly as a holder for a day or two. And, if it starts to bend out of shape you can always just make another in a few seconds!
Speak Up
Hotels are a part of the hospitality and service industry. It is literally their main job to keep customers comfortable and satisfied, just like they would be if they were in their own home. So, if you’re ever on a trip and something happens to disrupt that comfort and satisfaction – make sure you say something to a manager.
If your room isn’t up to par or if something is broken, or if they didn’t have something that was advertised in their materials, or anything else – call the front desk, or better yet, go up there and ask to speak directly to management. Just remember to keep a level head and a cool tone when you do so. You will always catch more flies with honey…
Fogless Shave Station
After a steamy shower in the mornings, you may need to use the mirror. And rather than having to fight with the foggy mirror every day, you can try this hack that will prevent the fog for up to a few days. After your shower, take a bar of soap to the section of the mirror that you need to use to see yourself. Then, use a washcloth to buff out the soap to create an area that’s immune to the steam.
This hack works in any bathroom, too, so you can use it at home to save yourself some time and trouble as well.
Multipurpose Conditioner
Most hotels have some pretty decent conditioner, which is at the very least up to par with the store brand stuff that you could get at any supermarket or drugstore. But, if you’ve got your own conditioner to use for your hair, you can still get some use out of the little bottles that you get in a hotel.
If you need to handwash any delicate items, like underwear, use it in the sink to scrub out the clothes. You can also use conditioner to remove everything from makeup to Band-Aids and rings that have gotten stuck on a finger. Plus, if you’ve forgotten the shaving cream, it makes a great stand-in.