I travel a lot for work, and as such I end up staying in a lot of hotels.
Sure, I would love to be doing all of this traveling with my camper attached to the back of my car; but the amount of travel that I do doesn’t exactly lend to allowing that.
You simply cannot put a twenty-foot-long camper into the overhead bin, trust me I have asked.
Anyway, over the years as a result of all of this work travel I have stayed in more hotels than I could even possibly count.
I’ve stayed in some good ones, and I have stayed in some pretty bad ones. The bad ones are like every other bad hotel you have ever seen.
The good ones though, can be absolute palaces, or at the very least extremely comfortable.
The thing I love about hotels is the notion that for a set period of time that it is your own personal space. It’s nobody else’s.
There are also some dangers when it comes to staying in a hotel for longer than a day at a time. Once I was staying at a hotel for about a week on business, and actually took the time to put all my clothes in the dresser and hang things up.
Big mistake. I was in a rush the day I had to fly home and ended up almost leaving the hotel with half of my clothing still in the dresser.
So being the occasionally forgetful person that I happen to be, I am always on the lookout for little tips and tricks when it comes to staying at a hotel.
One big one came from a very likely source, someone that would use a hotel quite a bit; a flight attendant named Esther Sturrus.
Now, she came to the rightful conclusion that one of the biggest mistakes that people make when staying at a hotel is leaving something behind.
Her solution was genius in its simplicity. Whenever you get into your room for the night, take all the valuable stuff that you can’t live without and put it in the safe.
Then, take one of your shoes and put it in the safe. One thing you definitely can’t leave a hotel room without to go home is your shoes. So that way you will always come back with what you left with.