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In a hotel for a few nights for work and yet again find myself fumbling around in the near-dark trying to see stuff in my room. Why can't they just put a nice big light in the middle of the ceiling?
Room's very nice, lots of little lamps around the periphery and a wall length (very dim) uplighter that certainly give it a nice overall aesthetic.
But I actually want to be able to find stuff in my suitcase! I can barely see! I just want to turn 'the big light' on!
This is in the Czech Republic, but its the same story in Holiday Inns, Premier Inns, Travelodges and other generic travel taverns the length and breadth of the UK and Germany.
Why?
Hides the blood stains on the walls, carpet, curtains, ceiling, headboard.... 😁
Same, pisses me off.
Hides the blood stains
It's not the bloodstains they're trying to hide...
Head torch?
Thought this was about it getting darker in the mornings.
Concrete ceiling and nowhere to run the cables?
Trying to create 'ambience', to try an distract from the fact you're in a chain hotel in some soulless town.
(Bitter from too many nights away this year in generic hotels which are ALL the same whether you're in Dundee or Dorking)
It's some kind of Crystal maze game I think. There is always a selection of random lights and switches scattered around the room and you can never find the switch to turn off the last one.
Same, pisses me off.
+1
Also, tiny little cups so that I can’t have a proper portion of tea. In one hotel, a few weeks, ago the cups were smaller than the tea-bags.
Get a black light, then you can see and get to play a new game.
Or night vision goggles then you can pretend to be spec ops.
That's the hotel way all over the world - have to switch on 10 different lights to actually see anything. My favourite experience though was the hotel in Dubai where there was no way at all to turn off half the lights in the bathroom. Local techs i was working with just laughed and said perfectly normal for Dubai, stuff is just thrown up, nothing is expected to still be standing after 7 years so as long as it doesn't collapse or burn down before that all's good. I had to sleep with towels at the bottom of the bathroom door as it was right opposite the bed.
Can't be to do with running cables, as theres a smoke detector on the ceiling.
Do like the idea of the backlight game - but maybe only on departure!
At least this weeks hotel appears to be stain-free (in daylight). Not at all the case last time I stayed in the Travelodge at Ramsgate marina. Riddled with DNA. 🤢
My other half calls it a big light.
'Put on big light!', she says in her Mancunian drawl.
It's really no bigger than any of the other lights to be honest. Only real difference is its central location so you know, makes you wonder why she calls it a big light.
I think it’s for ease of maintenance and being able to reconfigure the room easily. All he lights are lamps plugged into sockets or built into furniture and units so makes it much easier to change the layout of the room. The main issue for me is not the lack of ‘big light’ but more that you can’t always control all the lights from the bed. Some hotels i’ve Stayed at have a little touch screen control panel and you can, but some you don’t and have to go to each light individually.
Just Googled it (I was in a hotel earlier this week and wondered the same thing, again).
The rather boring answer is that it means the ceilings can be lower and therefore the build is cheaper, or you can get more floors in.
I stayed in the Travelodge
I had the misfortune myself fairly recently. My own fault - I booked it. Never again. Shudder.
Do like the idea of the backlight game – but maybe only on departure!
Spotting stuff would be easy, the game is finding the weiredst / most acrobatic place for a stain
You can have flush fitting lights in the middle of the room, they just look like bathroom lights