More things holiday hotels still get wrong

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SMALL wardrobes that assume all guests wear mini dresses. Insufficient hangers. Safes too small for a laptop in supposedly business hotels.

Hairdryers in the bathroom, not the bedroom. A ‘desk’ which could so easily double as a dressing table if only there were accessible plug sockets and a mirror. And the only mirror with enough light to shave or apply make ­ up above the washbasin. Result?

Ending up with a hernia squeezing between basin and toilet so you can get near enough to see what you’re doing!

Additionally, paperthin walls, made worse by connecting doors so you can hear your neighbours’ every cough, sneeze, snore and more (oops!). Useless hotel room doors, with little sound insulation so you’re woken at 4am when the party crowd roll back in discussing their evening loudly as they stumble through the deserted corridors. Plus there are invariably insufficient sun loungers ­ you shouldn’t have to get up at the crack of dawn to nab one by the pool. heaters from the ferreteria near him, but he wasn’t happy with them. He thought they were defective as his electrics frequently tripped when he was using them. He then called Neater Heater and told them the size of the rooms he wanted heating. Both small bedrooms at 9sqm.

Room service menus consisting only of overpriced stodge drowning in fat, cheese or cream, apart from maybe one or two token veggie items that sound totally unappetising. Try sticking to a post­Christmas diet on that lot...

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He was provided with two 600 Watt heaters. When fitting these heaters Tony and Richard looked at the small ferreteriabought heaters and saw that they were each 2,200 Watts. In total 4.4 kilowatts. Geoff said that they just about took the edge off the cold. (He also only had a 5kW allowance, so when he put the kettle on the electrics tripped). Anyway, his bedrooms are warmer now, his electrics no longer trip, and he is saving 3.2 kilowatts every hour! In fact, possibly more as Neater Heaters have thermostats to further reduce consumption.

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