Yesterday, we wrote about how many popular hotels are getting rid of mini-bars. That was yesterday’s news, or as we like to call it “the morning issue of USA Today” left at hotel doors across America.
Now for today’s news (which is an earlier story, so is ironically “yesterday’s news” compared to our mini-bar story!)
A Hilton in New York has announced plans to cancel room service, according to Reuters.
Another 3 Things We’d Like To See Hotels Get Rid Of
1. Complicated instructions on how to make a local phone call when you could just use your smartphone to do the same thing. Just check your local carrier’s rates if you are traveling abroad, because that hour-long phone call from Japan to New York might cost $3, but forgetting to use the hotel’s wifi to try to play the word “June” in Words With Friends might cost you $30,000 and the embarrassment of learning that the current month does not exist, according to Words With Friends.
2. Turn-down Service. Does anybody in the world really require someone knocking at their door, interrupting trying to figure out how to make a local phone call, so that an underpaid hotel employee can put a piece of chocolate on the pillow?
3. The wrong amount of decorative pillows for a regulation pillow-fight. (The wrong amount is any decorative pillows, because we suspect those things aren’t washed in between stays, and so who would want to be hit in the face with pillows filled with germs, bedbugs, and bedbug-killing insecticide?)
