Hotels are a great place for relaxation. They also offer a quick getaway from the hustle and bustle of city life. Excellent customer service is the key to succeed in the hospitality industry. Sure, having a strategic location and amazing amenities is great. But sometimes, it’s the hotel staff (and what they do) that makes customers’ stays much more remarkable. In this article, we’ve rounded up 50 creative hotel ideas that didn’t slip through the curious eyes of customers.
“More hotels should do this.”
“This kids menu at the hotel I’m staying at.”
“In the Europa Park Hotel in Germany there is a tiny children bathroom in the bathroom.”
“My hotel in Odessa (Ukraine) tells you which day it is by changing the elevator carpet every day.”
“This hotel shampoo assumes your theft.”
“Saw this in the hotel grounds where I was working today.”
“Instead of bibles, my hotel has copies of 1984.”
“The hotel I’m staying at has a ‘lending locker’.”
“This is what happens if you tip Egyptian hotel service generously.”
“This hotel in Singapore is very green.”
“My hotel wants you to take the nice soap home!”
“The staff at our hotel made a cool crocodile out of our towels.”
“My hotel has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights next to the bed instead of a bible.”
“Hotel maid clearly found my sunglasses.”
“This hotel lets you borrow a plant to take to your room so you have a friend to talk to.”
Weather station at a hotel
“This hotel actually makes it easy to connect your laptop to the TV.”
“Hotel I stayed at was formerly a train station and had an actual train inside it, with rooms inside each car.”
“The toiletries at my hotel in Switzerland included a rubber ducky.”
“My hotel in China has a card to give to a taxi driver so you can find your way back.”
“This bag of old/stained face towels have been re-used as ‘rags’ at this hotel.”
“Hotel maid left a towel monkey.”
“My hotel in Switzerland has different plug sockets for guests from different parts of the world.”
“The hotel I am staying at has the fire evacuation plans at ground level so you can see them if smoke has filled the hallways.”
“A black towel in my hotel room for make-up so the white ones don’t get stained.”
“The hotel I stayed at uses lemon grass instead of a plastic straw.”
“These do not disturb options at my hotel.”
When the hotel staff has your back
“As a guy who takes his family to a hotel every winter while I work on my writing, I approve this bathroom.”
“Hotel staff found Fifty Shades of Grey book on guest’s side table…”
“The toilet in my hotel is filled with seawater.”
“Sometimes the hotel holding your wedding also has a llama convention booked.”
“This hostel in Germany is an indoor vintage RV park.”
“I didn’t think this sort of thing really happens. I asked the hotel to hide a picture of Robert Downey Jr in my room. I forgot all about it and when I went to take a hot bath to wash off a shitty day, I caught sight of this.”
“My hotel room had a white noise machine installed in the wall.”
“The hostel I’m at dispenses soap like parmesan.”
“The shower in my hotel has a little cutout so you can turn it on before getting in.”
“This hotel in central London keeps beehives on their roof!”
A hotel’s reminder on how to climb stairs
“Spotted this in the breakfast room at my hotel this morning.”
“This hotel’s carpet and lighting combo produce a really trippy effect.”
“This hotel is an old prison.”
“This historic sign in my hotel explains how to use electricity in case you had never used it before.”
“The design of the curtains in my hotel room to ensure that there is no annoying light gap in the middle.”
“I left my jacket at a hotel and they mailed it to me with a complementary pillow.”
“The hotel my parents are staying at in NC to watch the eclipse stocked all of the rooms with these.”
“My hotel room comes with a complimentary android phone with free data and calls.”
A really cool bookshelf whose shelves spell something, seen at a hotel
“Honorary Manager of Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs is cat, and this is his door.”
“A buddy of mine travels a lot for work, asked for a fort…”