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Top 1000 Wonders of the World list Most comprehensive, best researched wonder list ever compiled \ Afghanistan Jam Minaret Kabul Old City Khyber Pass [with Pakistan] Algeria Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad Algiers Kasbah Djemila M'zab Valley America Alaska Cruise Alcatraz Island American Museum of Natural Hist Bayous Bryce Canyon Carlsbad Caverns Denali National Park Devils Tower Grand Canyon Grand Tetons Guggenheim Museum Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Kennedy Space Center Las Vegas Strip at Night Mammoth Cave Mesa Verde Meteor Crater Metropolitan Museum of Art Monterey Aquarium Monument Valley Mt Rushmore Museum of Modern Art Na Pali Coast National Gallery of Arts New York Skyline View Niagara Falls [with Canada] Redwoods National Park San Diego Zoo San Francisco Bay/Cityscape San Francisco Cable Cars Sedona Red Rock Country Sequoia National Park 17-Mile-Drive Smithsonian Statue of Liberty Times Square at Night United Nations Waimea Canyon Walt Disney World Yellowstone National Park Yosemite National Park Zion National Park to see my Top 10 America wonder rankings, tips, and photos American Samoa Ofu and Olosega Argentina Christ of the Andes [with Chile] Glacier National Park Iguazu Falls [with Brazil] La Boca District Lake District [with Chile] Pampas & its Gauchos Tierra del Fuego [with Chile] Armenia Ashtarak Ancient Fortress Australia Ayers Rock [Uluru] Bungle Bungle Great Barrier Reef Great Ocean Road Indian Pacific Railroad Kakadu Kings Canyon Lord Howe Island Olgas Outback Sydney Harbour Sydney Opera House to see my Top 10 Australia wonder rankings, tips, and photos Austria Belvedere Palace Danube Cruise [Austria to Hungary] Eisriesenwelt Caves Grossglockner Alpine Road Holfburg Palace Kunsthistorisches Museum Melk Abbey Church Salzburg Old Town & Castle Schonbrunn Palace Spanish Riding School St Stephen's Cathedral Vienna State Opera House to see my Top 5 Austria wonder rankings, tips, and photos Azerbaijan Baku Old City Gobustan Rock Drawings Palace of the Shahs Bahamas Paradise Island Barbados West Coast Belgium Ardennes Bruges Ghent Grand Place Meuse Valley Royal Museum of Fine Arts Tournai Notre Dame Cathedral Belize Barrier Reef Reserve Blue Hole Caracol Xunantunich Mayan Ruins Benin Abomey Royal Palaces Ganvie Stilt Village Bermuda Bermuda Sea/Landscape Bhutan Bhutan Mountain Treks Punakha Dzong Taktsang Monestary Trongsa Dzong Bolivia Lake Titicaca [with Peru] Salar de Uyuni Tiwanaku Botswana Chobe National Park Moremi Wildlife Reserve Okavango Delta Brazil Amazon Rain Forest [with Peru] Brasilia Carnival in Rio Christ the Redeemer statue Copacabana Beach Fernando de Noronha Iguacu Falls [with Argentina] Ipanema Beach Niteroi Contemporary Mus of Art Rio de Janeiro Panoramic Views Salvador de Bahia Sugar Loaf Mountain Teatro Amazonas to see my Top 5 Brazil wonder rankings, tips, and photos British Virgin Islands The Bath Bulgaria Ivanovo Rock-Hewn Churches Rila Monastery Cambodia Angkor Thom Angkor Wat Phnom Bakheng Silver Pagoda Ta Prohm Tonle Sapp Floating Village Cameroon Waza National Park Canada Banff National Park Baffin Island Bay of Fundy Cabot Trail Canadian Rockies CN Tower Louisbourg Fortress Lunenburg Old Town Niagara Falls [with USA] Old Quebec City Perce Rock & Gaspe Peninsula to see my Top 10 Canada wonder rankings, tips, and photos Cayman Islands Stingray City Channel Islands Channel Islands Chile Christ of the Andes [with Argentina] Easter Island Lake District [with Argentina] Osorno Volcano Portillo Tierra del Fuego [with Argentina] Torres del Paine China Baishui Terrace Bund River Front Chengde Mountain Resort Dazu Stone Sculptures Donghai Bridge Forbidden City Ganden Monastery Great Wall of China Hanging Monastery of Hengshan Hong Kong Harbor & City Scapes Hong Kong Restaurants & Shops Huangshan Mountain Range Jade Buddha Temple Jiayuguan Fort Jiuzhaigou Jokhang Temple Kaifeng Historical Sites Labrang Monastery Lama Temple Leshan Great Buddha Lijiang & Shangri-La Li River Cruise Long Ji Rice Terraces Longmen Caves Mogao Caves Mt Everest [with Nepal] Mt Taishan Pingyao Ancient City Potala Palace of Lhasa Pudong Skyline Qin Terra Cotta Warriors Reed Flute Cave Sanjiang Bridges Sera Monastery Shanghai Museum Shanghai Old City Shenyang Imperial Palace Shibaozhai Temple Shouxi Lake Silk Road Stone Forest Summer Palace Suzhou Gardens & Canals Tashilumpo Monastery Temple of Heaven Three Gorges Dam Three Pagodas Tiananmen Square Tian Tan Buddha of Po Lin Tiger Leaping Gorge West Lake Wild Goose Pagodas Wudang Ancient Building Complex Wulingyuan Scenic Areas Xi'an City Walls Xishuangbanna Yangshou Yangtze River Cruise Yuanyang Rice Terraces Yungang Caves to see my Top 10 China wonder rankings, tips, and photos Christmas Island Red Crab Migration Colombia Cartagena Old Town San Agustin Archaeological Park Zipaquira Salt Cathedral Congo Democratic Republic Garamba National Park Kahuzi-Biega National Park Okapi Faunal Reserve Virunga National Park Congo Republic Pigmy Villages Cook Islands Aitutaki Island Costa Rica Arenal Volcano National Park Corcovado National Park Manuel Antonio National Park Monteverde Cloud Forest to see my Top 4 Costa Rica wonder tips and photos Croatia Diocletian Palace Dubrovnik Old Town Hvar Old Town Plitvice Lakes Trogir Old Town to see my Top 5 Croatia wonder rankings, tips, and photos Cuba Old Havana San Pedro Rock Castle Cyprus Paphos Archaeological Site Czech Republic Cesky Krumlov Charles Bridge Karlovy Vary Kutna Hora Marienbad Olomouc Prague Castle Prague Old Town to see my Czech Republic wonder guide Denmark Den Gamle By Egeskov Castle Frederiksborg Castle Little Mermaid Statue Mons Klint Nyhavn Tivoli Gardens Ecuador Galapagos Islands La Compania Church Oriente Province Native Villages Otavalo Market to see my Galapagos cruise guide Egypt Abu Simbel Citadel of Saladin City of the Dead Colossi of Memnon Colossus of Ramesses II Edfu Temple Egyptian Museum Hatshepsut Temple Ibn Tulun Mosque Karnak Temple Kom Ombo Temple Luxor Temple Mohammed Ali Mosque Nile River Cruise Philae Temples Pyramids of Egypt at Giza Ras Muhammad National Park Sinai Desert Siwa Oasis Sphinx St Catherine's Monastery Step Pyramid Suez Canal Valley of the Kings Valley of the Queens White Dessert to see my Top 10 Egypt wonder rankings, tips, and photos England Big Ben & House of Parliament British Museum Buckingham Palace & Guards Canterbury Cathedral Cornish Coast English Lake District Imperial War Museum National Gallery Salisbury Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral Stonehenge Stratford-upon-Avon Tate Britain/Modern Tower Bridge Tower of London Westminster Abbey White Cliffs of Dover Windsor Castle York Minster to see my Top 10 England wonder rankings, tips, and photos Estonia Tallinn Old City Ethiopia Blue Nile Falls & Gorge Fasil Ghebbi Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches Falkland Islands King Penguin Colonies Fiji Islands Fiji Resort Islands Finland Karelia Lake Country [with Russia] Lapland Ethnic Region [w/ Sweden] France Amiens Cathedral Arc de Triomphe Avignon Historic Center Beaubourg Bonifacio Chambord Chateau Chartres Cathedral Chenonceau Chateau Dordogne Noir Eiffel Tower Fontainebleau Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle Honfleur Harbor Le Puy-en-Velay Latin Quarter Lourdes Louvre Museum Millau Bridge Mont-St-Michel Museum d'Orsay Nimes Amphitheatre Normandy D-Day Beaches Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris Old Strasbourg Opera Garnier Orange Roman Theatre Pont du Gard Reims Cathedral Riquewihr Sainte-Chapelle Verdon Canyon Versailles to see my France wonder guide French Polynesia Bora Bora Fatu Hiva Moorea Nuku Hiva Ua Pou v to see my Polynesia wonder guide Georgia Gelati Monastery Upper Svaneti Villages & Mountains Germany Berchtesgaden Cologne Cathedral Deutsches Museum Frauenkirche Garmisch Goslar Heidelberg Castle & Old City Hofbrauhaus Maulbronn Mosel Valley Neuschwanstein Castle Nymphenburg Castle Pinakothek museums Oktoberfest Pergamon Museum Reichstag Residenz of Munich Rhine Valley Romantic Road Rothenburg Old Town Zwinger to see my Top 10 Germany wonder rankings, tips, and photos Great Britain Territories Rock of Gibraltar South Georgia Island South Sandwich Islands Greece Acropolis and its Parthenon Acropolis Museum Agora & Hephaestus Temple Corfu Delos Delphi Dionysus Theatre & Atticus Odeon Epidaurus Knossos Palace Lindos Acropolis Matala Caves Meteora Mount Athos Mycenae Mykonos National Archaeological Museum Olympia Paros Rhodes Old Town Samaria Gorge Santorini Temple of Poseidon to see my Top 10 Greece wonder rankings, tips, and photos Greenland Ilulissat (Jakobshavn) Ice Fjord Guatamala Antigua Chichicastenango Flores Lake Atitlan Semuc Champey Tika Guiana Devil's Island Guyana Kaieteur Falls Haiti Citadel of Henri Christophe Holland (Netherlands) Aalsmeer Flower Auction Dutch Canals Dutch Dikes Dutch Windmills Holland Cheese Markets Dutch Museums [various] Keukenhof Gardens Madurodam Miniature Village Royal Palace in Amsterdam to see my Top 4 Holland Wonder rankings, tips, and photos Honduras Copan Mayan Ruins Hungary Budapest Castle Hill + Old Town Danube Cruise [Austria to Hungary] Hungarian House of Parliament Iceland Blue Lagoon Geysir Geothermal Field Gullfoss waterfalls Jokulsarlon Glacial Lake Myvatn Lake Region Thingvellir National Park Vatnajokull Glacier to see my Top 5 Iceland wonder rankings, tips, and photos India Agra Fort Ajanta Caves Amber Fort Andaman Islands Brihadisvara Temple Chand Baori City Palace Darjeeling Elephanta Caves Ellora Caves Fatehpur Sikri Gateway To India Girnar Temples Golden Temple Gommateshwara Statue Gwalior Fort Hampi Humayun's Tomb Indian Museum Jaisalmer Fort Jama Masjid Jantar Mantar Observatory Kanchipuram Temples Kashmir Kerala Backwaters Khajuraho Ladakh Lake Palace Hotel Lakshadweep Islands Lotus Temple Mahabalipuram Temples Mahabodhi Temples Mehrangarh Fort Meenakshi & its Gopurams Mt Thaley Sagar Mysore Palace Old Goa Palace of the Winds Pareshnath Jain Temple Qtub Minaret Rameswaram Temple Red Fort in Old Delhi Sikkim Taj Mahal Tirumala Temple Varanasi Riverside Ghats to see my Top 10 India wonder rankings, tips, and photos Indonesia Amandari Resort Bali overall Borobudur Irian Jaya Highland Villages Komodo National Park Krakatau Island Lombok Manado Dive Sites Prambanan Hindu Temple Somosir Island Native Villages Taman Mini Park Tanah Lot Temple Torajaland Traditional Villages Ubud Ulu Danu Temple Ulu Watu Temple to see my Bali Wonder guide Iran Iranian Crown Jewels Isfahan Iman Square & Mosque Persepolis Iraq Babylon Baghdad's Souks Hatra Ruins Iraqi Museum Najaf Shiite Cemetery Ziggurat in Ur Ireland Aran Islands Blarney Stone & Castle Cliffs of Moher Dingle Peninsula Newgrange Ring of Kerry Rock of Cashel Skillig Michael Trinity College Library to see my Top 5 Ireland wonder rankings, tips, and photos Israel Dead Sea [with Jordan] Holy Sepulchre Church Jerusalem Old City & Walls Masada Temple Mount to see my Top 5 Israel wonder rankings, tips, and photos Italy Accademia Gallery Agrigento Ruins Assisi Amalfi Coast Bargello Palace Museum Bergamo Upper Town Borghese Gallery Canals of Venice Capri Castel Sant'Angelo Catacombs of St Callixtus Cinque Terre Colosseum of Rome Doges' Palace Florence Old Town Cityscape Herculaneum Italian Lake District La Scala Opera House Leaning Tower of Pisa Medici Chapels Milan Cathedral Mt Etna Mt Vesuvius Museum of St. Mark Orvieto Ostia Antica Pantheon Paestum Piazza del Duomo Complex Piazza della Signoria Complex Pitti Palace & its Palatine Gallery Pompeii Ponte Vecchio Portofino Positano Roman Forum & Palatine San Gimignano Santa Maria delle Grazie San Vitale Basilica Siena Spanish Steps St Mark's Basilica & Campanile St Mark's Square Syracuse Ortygia & Archaeol. Park Taormina Trevi Fountain Trulli District Tuscan Countryside Uffizi Gallery Venetian Alley Maze Villa d'Este to see my Top 10 Italy wonder rankings, tips, and photos Ivory Coast Basilica Notre Dame de la Paix Jamaica Dunn's River Falls Martha Brae River Rafting Japan Asakusa Kannon Temple Byodo-in Temple Chion-in Temple Fushimi-Inari Shrine Golden Pavilion Himeji Castle Horyuji Temple Kamakura Great Buddha Kasuga Grand Shrine Kiyomizu Temple Kyoto National Museum Mount Fuji Nijo Castle Nikko shrines & temples Nishi & Higash Hongan Temples Osaka Castle Ryoan-ji Rock Garden Sanjusangen Hall Shibuya at night Todai-ji_Temple Tokyo Fish Market Tokyo National Museum Ushiku Amida Buddha to see my Top 10 Japan wonder rankings, tips, and photos Jordan Dead Sea [with Israel] Desert Castles Jerash Madaba Mosaics Petra Wadi Rum to see my Top 5 Jordan wonder rankings, tips, and photos Kenya Amboseli National Park Lake Nakura Flamingos Lamu Meru National Park Mt Kenya National Park Nairobi National Park Serengeti Migration [with Tanzania] Thika Thompson Falls Treetops Tsavo National Park to see my Kenya Safari guide Kyrgystan Issyk Kul Lake Laos Luang Prabang Plain of Jars That Luang Lebanon Baalbek Beirut's Corniche Byblos Jeita Grotto Sidon Old Town Tyre Libya Cyrene Ghadames Old Town Leptis Magna Red Castle Sabratha Greek Ruins Tadrart Acacus Rock Art Sites Tripoli Medina Liechtenstein Liechtenstein Lithuania Vilnius Old Town Luxembourg Luxembourg Old Town & Fortress Madagascar Masoala National Park Ranomafa Malawi Lake Malawi Malaysia Batu Caves Penang Petronas Twin Towers River Longhouses Sipidan Dive Site Maldives Maldive Islands Mali Djenne Old Town & Mosque Dogon Villages & Cliff Region Elephant Migration Le Main de Fatma Mopti Mosque Timbuktu Malta Hagar Qim Mdina Valletta Victoria in Gozo Martinique St Pierre Ruins Mauritania Chinguetti Mexico Acapulco Chichen Itza Copper Canyon Calakmul Mitla Monte Alban Museum of Anthropology Palenque Parque La Venta San Miguel de Allende Taxco Teotihuacan Uxmal to see my Top 10 Mexico wonder rankings, tips, and photos Micronesia Nan Madol Monaco Grand Prix of Monaco Monaco Bay/Cityscape Monte Carlo Casino Mongolia Gobi Desert Nomad Camps Khovsgol Lake Area Monte Negro Kotor Morocco Fez Marrakesh Meknes Ouarzazate Tangiers Medina Tetouan Medina Mozambique Mozambique Fortified Old Town Myanmar Bagan Temples & Pagodas Inle Lake Kuthodaw Pagoda Mandalay Palace Monywa Mergui Archipelago Popa Taungkalat Shwe Nandaw Monastery Shwedagon Stupa Namibia Etosha National Park Fish River Canyon Namib Desert Skeleton Coast Nepal Kathmandu Kathmandu Valley Lumbini Mount Everest [with China] Mustang Kingdom Sagarmatha National Park New Caledonia New Caledonia Island New Zealand Fiordland National Park Poor Knights Islands Rotorua Geothermal Area Waitomo Caves to see my New Zealand wonder tips, and photos Norfolk Island Norfolk Island North Korea Kaesong Old Quarter Mt Kumgang Nothern Ireland Giant's Causeway Norway Akershus Fortress Bergen Old Town & Wharfs Fjords of Norway National Gallery Norway Stave Churches Swalbard [Spitsbergen] Oman Bahla Fort Four-wheel mountain safari Musandam fjord cruise Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque Pakistan Badshahi Mosque Derawar Fort Emperor Jehangir's Tomb Hunza Valley Kelimutu Highway K2 Mountain Khyber Pass [with Afghanistan] Moenjodaro Archaeological Site Lahore Fort Rohtas Fort Shalimar Gardens Taxila Panama Panama Canal Papua New Guinea Sepik River Wuvulu Island Peru Amazon Rain Forest [with Brazil] Chan Chan Chavin de Huantar Cuzco Lake Titicaca [with Bolivia] Machu Picchu Nazca Lines to see my Top 3 Peru wonder rankings, tips, and photos Philippines Banaue Rice Terraces Chocolate Hills Mayon Volcano Pamalican Island Taal Volcano Tubbataha Reef Underground River to see my Top 5 Philippines wonder rankings, tips, and photos Poland Gdansk Old Town Krakow Market Square Lublin Old Town Malbork Castle Warsaw Market Square Wawel Castle & Cathedral Wielicska Salt Mine Zamosc Old Town to see my Top 3 Poland wonder rankings, tips, and photos Portugal Alcobaca Monastery Alfama Algarve Coast Azores Belem Tower Douro Valley Evora Historic Center Jeronimos Monastery Madeira Islands Obidos Castle & Village Oporto Historic Center Queluz Palace Sintra St George's Castle to see my Top 5 Portugal wonder rankings, tips, and photos Romania Romanian Village Museum Transylvanian Alps Rwanda Volcanoes National Park Russia Acid Lake Catherine Palace Golden Ring Hermitage Museum Kizhi Island Outdoor Museum Kremlin Karelia Lake Country [with Finland] Kronotsky Nature Reserve Lake Baikal Mayakovskaya Metro Station Mother Russia Statue Novgorod Kremlin Our Savior Spilt Blood Church Peter and Paul Fortress Peterhof St Basil's Cathedral St Petersburg's Palace Square Suzdal Historical/Architectural Trans-Siberian Railroad Trip Valley of the Geysers Volga River Cruise Saba Saba Airport San Marino San Marino Saudi Arabia Hejaz Railroad Ride Jeddah Mecca Medina Nabatean Tombs of Madain Salah Scotland Edinburgh Castle Eilean Donan Castle Holyroodhouse Palace Isle of Skye National Gallery of Scotland Orkney Islands Outer Hebrides Islands Shetland Islands St Andrews Golf Course to see my Top 5 Scotland wonder rankings, tips, and photos Senegal African Renaissance Statue Goree Island Seychelles Islands Seychelles Islands Signapore Hawker Food Centres Marina Bay Sands to see my rankings, tips & photos Slovakia Vikolinec Village Slovenia Bled Island Skocjan Caves South Africa Cape Town & Environs Drakensberg Mountains Kimberley Diamond Mines Kruger National Park Panoramic Route Phinda Table Mountain National Park to see my Top 7 South Africa wonder rankings, tips, and photos South Korea Changdok Palace & Secret Garden Chongmyo Royal Shrine Haeinsa Temple Kyongbok Palace Kyongju Tombs & Museum Mt Sorak Hiking Trails Popchusa Temple Pulguksa Temple Sokkuram Grotto Spain Alhambra Altamira Cave Paintings Avila Walls Burgos Cathedral Canary Islands Costa del Sol Cuenca Old Town El Escorial Gaudi's Sacred Family Church Gothic Quarter of Barcelona Guggenheim Museum Ibiza Plaza Mayor of Madrid Mezquita of Cordoba Pamplona Prado Museum Ronda Royal Palace in Madrid Salamanca Old City Santiago de Compostela Segovia Alcazar Segovia Aqueduct Seville Alcazar Seville Cathedral & Giralda Tower Toledo Old Town to see my Top 10 Spain wonder rankings, tips, and photos Sri Lanka Anuradhapura Dambulla Golden Temple Kandy Sigiriya St Barts Gustavia St Lucia Gros and Petit Pitons Sudan Khartoum Old Town Pyramids & Temples Gebel Barkal Pyramids of Meroe Sweden Drottningholm Castle Kalmar Castle Lapland Ethnic Region [with Finland] Museum of National Antiquities Skansen Historical Village Stockholm Archipelago Stockholm Old Town Visby Medieval Town & Port Switzerland Bern Old City Chillon Chateau Fribourg Old Town Gstaad Jungfrau Cog Railway Lucerne Covered Bridges Matterhorn Palace of Nations Thun Castle Zurich Old Town to see my Top 5 Switzerland wonder rankings, tips, and photos Syria Aleppo Citadel Apamea Bosra Amphitheatre Crac des Chevaliers Damascus Old City & Umayyad Hama Water Wheels Ma'aloula Mountain Town Qanawat Kanata Roman Ruins Palmyra Taiwan Kenting National Park National Palace Museum Lungsham Temple Taipei 101 Building Taroko Gorge Tanzania Arusha National Park Dar Es Salaam Village Museum Lake Manyara National Park Mt Kilimanjaro Ngorongoro Crater Selous Game Reserve Serengeti Migration [with Kenya] Tarangire National Park Zanzibar Coral Reefs Zanzibar Stone Town to see my Tanzania Safari guide Thailand Ayutthaya Temples Bangkok Floating Markets Chiang Mai Golden Buddha Statue Phang Nga Bay Phi Phi Islands Phuket Phanom Rung Historical Park Prasat Hin Phimai Grand Palace in Bangkok Sukhothai Historical Park Temple of Dawn Temple of the Emerald Buddha Temple of the Reclining Buddha to see my Top 5 Thailand wonder rankings, tips, and photos Tonga Vava'u Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad Carnival Tunisia Carthage Dougga Ancient City Great Mosque of Kairawan Kerkouane Punic Village Ruins Matmata Underground Dwellings Medenine Area Ksars Sousse's Medina Tunis Medina Turkey Antalya Basilica Cistern Blue Mosque Bodrum Cappadocia Divrigi Great Mosque & Hospital Dolmabahee Palace Ephesus Ruins Hagia Sophia Hierapolis Istanbul's Grand Bazaar Mt Ararat Nemrut Dagi Archaeological Site Pamukkale Pergamon Acropolis Ruins of Troy Topkapi Palace to see my Top 10 Turkey wonder rankings, tips, and photos Turkmenistan Door to Hell fire pit Merv Ruins Uganda Mountain Gorilla Habitats Murchison & Karuma Falls Ruwenzori National Park Ukraine Kiev Old City Lvov Old City UAE - Dubai Burj Al Arab Burj Khalifa Palm Islands Ski Dubai World Islands UAE- Abu Dhabi Aldar spherical tower Emirates Palace Sheikh Zayed Mosque US Virgin Islands Trunk Bay Uzbekistan Bukhara Old Town Registan Square in Samarkand Tashkent Old Town Vanuatu Vanuatu Vatican City Sistine Chapel St Peter's Basilica St Peter's Square Vatican Museums to see my Vatican rankings, tips & photos Venezuela Angel Falls Canaima Table Mountain Cliffs Grand Sabana Lake Maracaibo Stilt Villages Merida to Pico Bolivar Cable Car Vietnam Cu Chi Tunnels Halong Bay Hoi An Old Town Hue Imperial City Sapa Son Doong Cave Thien Mu Pagoda to see my Top 7 Vietnam wonder rankings, tips, and photos Wales Caernarfon Castle Cardiff Castle Conwy & its Castle Snowdonia National Park Western Samoa Upolu Yemen Barakesh Sana'a Old City Wadi Dhar Shibam Zambia South Luangwa National Park Victoria Falls [with Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe Great Zimbabwe Ruins Hwange National Park Mana Pools National Park Victoria Falls [with Zambia] Antarctica Antarctica Deception Island Dry Valleys Iceberg Calving Lemaire & Neumayer Channels Jagged Mountain Peaks Paradise Harbor Penguin Colonies & Migrations Polar Ice Cap Ross Ice Shelf South Pole to see my Top Antarctica wonder rankings, tips, and photos Medals shared by 3 or more countries Congo Rain Forest Kalahari Desert Lake Victoria North Atlantic Icebergs North Pole Rift Valley Sahara Desert West African Tribal Villages Arctic Tern Humpback Whale Great White Shark Elephant Seal Lemming Monarch Butterfly Salmon Sea Turtle Snow Goose Wandering Albatross Covered in my other lists Classic Rooms Queen-size or twin beds available Complimentary Wi Fi Connecting room available Bottega Veneta toiletries Maximum occupancy 2 people Nespresso coffee machine 30-38m²/ 323-409ft² More details Classic Rooms with view From € 810* Make a reservation Classic Rooms with view Panoramic city views Queen-size or twin beds available Connecting room available Maximum occupancy 2 people Complimentary Wi Fi Nespresso coffee machine 30-38m²/ 323-409ft² More details Prestige Rooms From € 880* Make a reservation Prestige Rooms King-size or twin beds available Bottega Veneta toiletries Complimentary Wi Fi Connecting room available Maximum occupancy 2 people Nespresso coffee machine 40-48m²/431-517ft² More details Prestige Rooms with view From € 950* Make a reservation Prestige Rooms with view Panoramic city views King-size or twin beds available Complimentary Wi Fi Connecting room available Maximum occupancy 2 people Nespresso coffee machine 40-48m²/431-517ft More details Junior Suites From € 1,300* Make a reservation Junior Suites King-size or twin beds available One bedroom with sitting area Most rooms have separate walk in rain head showers Complimentary Wi Fi Maximum occupancy 3 people, complimentary additional bed or cot Nespresso coffee machine Up to 60m²/646ft² More details Junior Suites with view From € 1,500* Make a reservation Junior Suites with view Panoramic city views King-size or twin beds available One bedroom with sitting area Most rooms have separate walk in rain head showers Complimentary Wi Fi Maximum occupancy 3 people, complimentary additional bed or cot Up to 60m²/646ft² More details Classic Suites From € 2,300* Make a reservation Classic Suites One bedroom and one living room with study area Choice of courtyard view or panoramic city view King-size bed available Spacious marble bathroom with double wash basin and separate walk-in rain head showers Complimentary Wi Fi Maximum occupancy 3 people, complimentary additional bed or cot Up to 82m²/882ft² More details Prestige Suites From € 4,500* Make a reservation Prestige Suites Most have breathtaking panoramic city views One bedroom and one living room with study area Spacious marble bathroom with double wash basin and separate walk-in rain head showers Living room can accommodate small gatherings Complimentary Wi Fi Maximum occupancy 3 people, complimentary additional bed or cot Up to 85m/915ft² More details Villa Malta Suite From € 4,950* Make a reservation Villa Malta Suite Superb panoramic city views One bedroom and one living room with study area Spacious marble bathroom with double wash basin and separate walk-in rain head showers Complimentary Wi Fi Maximum occupancy 3 people, complimentary additional bed or cot In Suite check-in and check -out 94m/1,012ft² More details Aurora Terrace Suite From € 6,300* Make a reservation Aurora Terrace Suite One bedroom and one living room with study area Private terrace with fountain and lounge furniture Outdoor dining area for up to 10 people Spacious marble bathroom with double wash basin and separate walk-in rainhead shower Maximum occupancy 3 people, complimentary additional bed or cot In Suite check-in and check -out 86m² + 120m² terrace/925ft² + 1,292ft² terrace More details Villa Medici Presidential Suite From € 11,000* Make a reservation Villa Medici Presidential Suite Located on 5h floor with spectacular city views Balconies at every window One bedroom, one living room, dining room, pantry and study Complimentary Wi Fi Maximum occupancy 3 people, complimentary additional bed or cot In Suite check-in and check -out 125m²/1,345ft² More details Bellavista Penthouse Suite From € 13,000* Make a reservation Bellavista Penthouse Suite Stunning panoramic city views One bedroom, one living room with dining and study area Access by private elevator Floor to ceiling windows Spacious marble bathroom with separate walk-in rain head showers and oversize circular tub In Suite check-in and check -out 202m²/2174ft² What are the things we don't know about hotel rooms? and should. 16 Answers Zeev Sharon Zeev Sharon, CEO & Co-Founder of Hotelied Updated Jan 5, 2015 · Featured in Daily Mail Given that most of the answers on here are about dirty blankets and other "scary" things about hotel rooms, I thought I'd share some fun facts and industry lingo that would immediately make you sound like a hotel insider: A single sellable room or suite is called a "key" A standard-size room is comprised of one "bay", a suite could be the size of 2+ bays These days, the cost of building a new full-service hotel in NYC (including cost of land) can be $800K+ per key The old industry rule of thumb is that for every $1,000 invested in a room's construction, the hotel should charge $1 in Average Daily Rate. So... a room that cost $300,000 to build, should sell on average for $300/night. The quality of a guest room is often measured by the number of fixtures in the bathroom (the bathroom is by far the most expensive room to build). A standard 3-fixture bathroom has a sink, bath and toilet. A 5-fixture bathroom is more typical for luxury hotels, and has 2 sinks, a bath, stand-alone shower and a toilet. It's very hard to design a hotel room that is narrower than 9' (although you will find such examples in cities like NYC, SF, London, Paris, etc.). Rooms with double beds are usually larger than rooms with king beds. Ceiling height is one of the most important factor affecting guests' perception of the quality and size of a hotel room. Hotel rooms should get a light renovation (carpets, drapes, wall paper, etc.) every 4-5 years, and a major renovation every 7-8 years. Minibars almost always lose money! Even when they charge $10 for a Diet Coke! Same story for breakfast in bed! In-room dining rarely makes money for the hotel, as there's a lot of expensive labor involved. Hope you've enjoyed these "insider's tips". Let me know if you have any questions. -Zeev Sharon, CEO & Founder of Hotelied Hotelied is the first hotel booking site where travelers can unlock unpublished discounts at luxury hotels based on their social media and travel loyalty accounts. Recent press includes the New York Times, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Cool Hunting and Fast Company. 31k Views · View Upvotes Related Questions More Answers Below What are things about 5-star hotels that they do not want you to know? What is the weirdest thing you have done in a hotel room? What do people not know about hotels? What are some fun things to do in a hotel room? What are some of the things travellers hate about hotels? Michael Forrest Jones Michael Forrest Jones, Beechmont Hotels Corporation Updated Sep 4, 2015 · Featured in BBC and 2 more Hotel Impossible (Travel Channel's Hotel Impossible ) covers all the obvious stuff (and even I learn things from it that I've never thought of before), and Anthony Melchiorri is always coming up with something new (which is why I have him linked here, and I ended up with an addendum on this very topic in the comments [http://www.quora.com/Hotels/What-dont-we-know-about-hotel-rooms/answer/Michael-Forrest-Jones/comment/1859504 ]), but we'll recap on some of it . . . (Meanwhile, here's even more: 8 Things Hotels Won't Tell You (But You Need To Know) ) Take the comforter off the bed and toss it aside. If you don't need the blanket for warmth, do the same with it. If you do use the blanket, keep the sheet between your body and the blanket. Anything that comes in contact with any large expanses of the previous guests' bare skin should be taken out and laundered every time the room is made, but it isn't always, especially in cheaper hotels. And more upscale bed and breakfasts and boutique operations (where Hotel Hell's Gordon Ramsay directs more of his own focus) don't rate the benefit of the doubt, either. Hotel Hell Clip: Speechless Hotels are getting away from comforters (at least if they're any color other than white): they don't like to have to launder them after each guest, and those hotels that don't wash them each time are falling into disrepute for not doing so. Blankets are here to stay, however, and nobody really wants to see them go. But some hotels are still hesitant about washing them every day if they think they can get out of it (e.g., unless a visible stain appears - and sometimes those get missed.) Throw it Out the Door (link to video) This is what the beds in your hotel room should look like. I agree with Anthony Melchiorri - every foam comforter on a hotel bed anywhere in the country should be rounded up, put in one big pile, and burned. A few safety and security items: If you are a government employee traveling on business, and you don't notice a sprinkler head in your room, pick another hotel next time. FEMA-compliant hotels must be sprinklered: your stay at a hotel that isn't FEMA-compliant is technically not reimbursable by the government, and you could run into problems with your travel reimbursement. Check the peephole in your door. If it's damaged or it has been tampered with, ask for a different room. The only thing particularly newsworthy about the violation of ESPN's Erin Andrews by a stalker in 2008 was that it happened to someone as famous as Erin Andrews (whose name and nude body, sadly, is now forever associated with hotel room peepholes, as you'll see . . . ). A Google Image Search for "hotel room door peephole", or "hotel room peephole", will usually reveal not only some of the infamous peephole cam views of Erin Andrews, but several other women as well who were victimized in similar fashion (some of whom may not know even now that they were victims of such a thing) -- and even links to websites where, if you're a pervert, you, too can order your very own peephole cam. Send me a receipt for your purchase, and I'll send you a five-dollar rebate on it. It's worth that much to me to know who you are, so if you ever show up in a hotel that I'm running, you will not be allowed to rent a room, and you (and your pervert cam if you brought it) will be forthwith ejected from the property, never to return . . . Don't believe me? Run the search and see what you see. (hotel room door peephole | hotel room peephole - Google Search In addition to Erin Andrews, you will almost always see one or two women other than Erin Andrews, as well as an occasional naked guy. Forget Hotel Impossible - I learned something new simply composing this one answer, simply doing an image search for a picture of a peephole to place below . . .) It is not an everyday occurrence - but it is still a not uncommon one. After you check your peephole to make sure it's not damaged, missing or tampered with, find a piece of notepaper (there should be some on the desk or nightstand in your room), tear off a strip of it, roll it up and twist it until it's about the size of a cigarette butt, and 'plug' it in the peephole. (Not too deep: we'll have to gouge it out of there, and you'll want to be able to pull it out yourself if someone knocks on the door). If you do get a knock, always check via the peephole: if you see no one there, do not open the door -- use the thumb lock and deadbolt it, and call the front desk. If a member of the hotel staff has any business paying your room a visit, the desk clerk should know. A good-intentioned friend showing up for a visit to your room will not stand to one side to avoid being seen through the peephole. Anyone you see loitering about the common areas of the hotel - especially a parking lot or a corridor - is probably up to no good, and in any event does not need to be there. Call the front desk and ask that this person be removed. And if he isn't removed promptly, use a different hotel the next time you're in town. Yes, it's potentially that serious. I look forward to the day when I can tell you to choose only hotels where every employee who has access to guestroom keys is subjected to a complete public records background check, prior to hire, and every year or two thereafter (Nan's Law ). But for now, I can't: it's something I've only seen done by one company other than my own - and they ignore the material they get on the checks. It's sad: Nan's Law has absolutely no chance of ever passing in the one state where it has ever been introduced (http://nanslaw.org/scan001.pdf ): Pennsylvania is the most 'ex-offender friendly' state in which I've ever lived: I feel, irresponsibly so. (The city of Philadelphia bans discrimination in employment on the basis of criminal history unless it's embarrassingly obvious that the conviction has some specific nexus to the job, and even forbids asking an applicant about past convictions. And there are unusual restrictions throughout the Commonwealth on how criminal records may be accessed and used.) I believe in repentance, redemption, rehabilitation and giving some prodigal schnook who's seen the error of his sad, sorry ways a chance to get himself straight, too -- but I'm not trusting the guy with the means, should he so desire, to make a key to a room where you, your wife or your kids may be peaceably (and helplessly) sleeping until it's been quite a few years and I've seen it for quite a few years. Nan's Law should be law. I hope to see more voluntary industry compliance - and as Gandhi suggests, my company will be the change I wish to see in the world. (We have to. It's the law. Really. We had it written into our articles of incorporation when we formed the company - and so now, we cannot legally operate our hotels, anywhere, within or outside Pennsylvania, without complying with it. Aren't we devious? No apologies, no regrets . . .) And finally, that coarse, heavy, slightly undersized 'towel' in your bath isn't a towel - it's a bath mat. Use it. When you take a shower, it goes in the floor to await you as you step out. That tile-and-grout floor can be pretty slippery if you lose any water from around the shower curtain, or if you take a long, hot steamy shower and a lot of moisture accumulates on the floor because it didn't all vent. Even exhaust fans in hotel baths that work -- and frequently, they don't (guests don't think to report a problem with them, and housekeepers forget to check) -- have their limits. If your room has a luggage rack, and it's the nice, upscale one with wooden frame rather than the 'cheap' extruded aluminum frame - don't use the luggage rack. After checking the bathroom floor to see that it appears clean, open your bag there. It's literally safer. Bedbugs love wood. And they don't come from nasty people (think about it: the first thing even the most hygenically-challenged individual is going to do if a bedbug is crawling or feeding on him or her is pick it off), they come from baggage that's been in nasty places. Put the items you plan to take from your bags on other pieces of furniture, and close the bag. Wood - bad. Metal - good. When bedbugs are not feeding on someone's body, they like to hide out in the fluting on a mattress. If the room or the hotel is questionable, here is how to do a really thorough check for bedbugs. Before Hotel Impossible, no one ever gave a heck of a lot of thought to 'high-touch points', bacteria receptacles in a hotel room. (I did see an item a few years ago about how the nastiest, most germ-covered item in any hotel room is the wall-mounted hair dryer in the bath: perhaps because it's something that's easy for the housekeepers to forget to check or to squirt down with disinfectant.) So perhaps it was easy to get a little irritated with Anthony for suggesting that guests pack a can of Lysol in their bag and spray down their telephone and your TV remote, but once he got us thinking about it . . . well, he's right, it makes perfect sense. We're becoming a little more sensitive to things like that now. It was bound to happen anyway - ten years ago, who would have thought anyone would need disinfectant wet wipes and hand sanitizer mounted by the shopping carts at the supermarket? Times are changing: when I was growing up, it was acceptable to smoke just about anywhere you didn't see a 'no smoking' sign, including in a hotel lobby. (At my first front office job, the desk clerks all smoked - and kept an ashtray behind the desk. At my second and third, the rule was, step into the back office and get out of sight with it - and it was at these two hotels that non-smoking rooms were a new thing that I'd never seen before.) Public awareness has increased. Standards change accordingly. Best Western hotels now have an ultraviolet wand on every housekeeping cart that can be passed over germ receptacles, and zap any bacteria present on them (Best Western Hotels use UV wand and black light to sanitize rooms ). Last year, they also went to TV remotes that are waterproof - there is nowhere for germs to hide on one. We've got the technology. Low-paid, expendable help is the weak spot. Believe it or not, there are people in the world who love to clean. (Unfortunately, it's like a law, there's a limit of one or two per hotel, but I try to get at least that many on my housekeeping staff . . .) But these are frequently the exception in even a good hotel, and managers don't help much. Room attendants, people who scrub floors and swab toilets for a living, don't rate highly on the socioeconomic scale, wouldn't take a job doing that if they can get a job doing something else, don't get a lot of respect, and are paid not much more than minimum wage (some hotels in fact consider it a 'minimum-wage job'). And they're treated accordingly. If one quits, or you have to fire one, just go out and hire another piece of meat to replace her. Me, I like to try and pay them a little more than they could make working in a different hotel: that way, I can take my pick of the ones available: take care of them, try to treat them the way I'd want to be treated if my only job option was something like that, and give them a halfway decent working environment, and I shouldn't have too many housekeeping problems. And I've gotten good ones most of the time - at one point, I turned one of the worst hotel housekeeping operations in town at one hotel I ran into one of the best. (See Michael Forrest Jones' answer to How do good hotels always feel so clean and fresh? ) But you can't always count upon me running your hotel. The blankets don't get washed in some hotels. The housekeepers rush, they have their quota to make, they get questioned if they take more than a half hour to make a room (or fifteen minutes to service a room occupied by a stayover guest), they skip things. At just so much more than minimum wage, you can only expect them to care but just so much. It's not a rewarding job. Lots of encouragement and acknowledgment is necessary to keep them from burning out. Meanwhile, owners economize, especially in cheaper properties. They underpay the housekeepers. They rush the housekeepers. They don't go behind the housekeepers and inspect the rooms. They have a lot of housekeeping turnover (and new ones miss a lot of things during the time it takes them to get the hang of it). They don't have, or don't use, a proper procedure for cleaning reusable items like glasses or coffeemakers. They don't check - or don't even know - the proper settings on the laundry room equipment. If it's a franchised property, they cheat on property inspections: walk the quality assurance inspector around, keep him or her entertained, and try to point him or her to a few carefully selected and prepared rooms. The inspectors never inspect every room in the hotel, even with a 'good' brand. The owners procrastinate on deep-cleaning rooms as long as they can get away with, even when the franchise organization rules specify an interval. Fortunately, owners like this are in the minority, but it's still a pretty good-sized minority, and all hotels have their weaknesses. So, you have to remember: this is shared space that you're sleeping in. We do what we can to be vigilant, but we can't personally supervise every housekeeper performing every little task. Things are going to get missed, sometimes we can only hope that the thing that got missed in your room this morning won't be noticed by you, and we'll catch it tomorrow. The last person who occupied your room might be someone you wouldn't care to share personal space with. Be circumspect accordingly. As Ken Lim noted in his own answer to this question, a hotel is not a comfortable place for germophobes. TMI alert - Here's a gross-out story for you (hotel housekeeping war stories can frequently be that way), so you might want to stop here. Years ago when I first moved from hourly help to management, part of the process was that I got to help out with all the different departments of the hotel and learn how they work (I'd been a maintenance guy one summer in high school, and in a few part-time gigs since, so I had a head start there). So one day, when the housekeepers were shorthanded and I had to help them out, I got to run ahead of them with a laundry cart, to all the vacated rooms, and 'pull linen' for them. My job would be to strip the beds and put all the linen in a pillowcase. I'd then go into the bath and gather all the terry and put all that in another pillowcase. Toss both into a laundry cart, move on to the next room, save the housekeepers five minutes per room plus however much time they'd spend running back and forth, carting the stuff to the laundry. Oh - and wear rubber gloves for this job. I did that day, but it was still an eye-opening experience. I learned, never, never touch a hand towel in a cheap hotel - or in any hotel unless you have the confidence in the laundry operation of that particular hotel that can only come from insider knowledge. You know where you almost always find a hand towel in any recently-vacated hotel room that was occupied by a guy? On the floor . . . next to the bed . . . about halfway down, maybe a little toward the foot of the bed . . . Same spot in the floor, next to almost every bed occupied by a man, in every room. (And this is usually true whether he slept alone, or whether a couple occupied the bed, I'll leave the rest to your imagination.) Now, are you ready to listen to me about keeping the sheet between the blanket and your skin, if you don't toss them altogether? At least most hotels - every time they make the room - wash any hand towels that were removed from where they were left . . . 218.2k Views · View Upvotes · Answer requested by Caroline Zelonka and David S. Rose Ken Lim Ken Lim, hotelier Written Mar 4, 2013 Hmmm... Let's say a hotel is not a good place for germaphobes. lol Stay out of the coverlet, it's never cleaned. But the sheets, duvet covers are clean. Those things run thru a big iron machine so hot it dries out any moisture left from the dryer. Not to mention cleaned with a great amount of bleach before this. Until a few years ago, the 'Standard of Operation' is just to have the housekeepers clean the glasses in the sink, with hot water. Then dry them with a clean pillowcase or something. It's just to much of a hassle to arrange those glasses to be cleaned by the restaurant's dishwasher. Unless you see a whole tray of glasses on the housekeeper's cart (not just 3 or 4 for outstanding situations), it's likely that the housekeeper still wash it in the sink. Personally, the thing that's most squeamish to me is the coffee maker. Yes, it looks clean, but who knows how the previous guests used it before you? Think vomit, cigarette butts, crayons etc. Not everyone is a good samaritan. Same theory goes to the bathtub. Take bath in your own home. Shower only in hotels! Also, the average hotel would have at least 90% occupancy rate. So chances are the room you're staying in is occupied by someone the day before, and the day before that and so on, since the hotel opened for business. If everything looks brand new, it's because the housekeepers are doing a good job. That's all I could think of right now. Oh, one last thing... when all is said and done, hotel rooms still ALWAYS make people horny. 22.5k Views · View Upvotes · Answer requested by Jane Saenger Mcdonald, Serene Ensu, and 3 more John Leach John Leach Written Mar 20, 2013 A study by the University of Houston reported that two of the most contaminated items were TV remote controls and bedside lamp switches, though just as badly contaminated were bathroom toilet seats and sinks. TV remotes among dirtiest items in hotels, study finds 6.5k Views · View Upvotes Alberto Martinez Alberto Martinez, Alberto Martinez Miller is my name, my first language is Spanish. My home town Written Jul 11, 2016 Every once in awhile we have to stay at Hotel room. Some people enjoy hotel stays some people absolutely dread. After a few stays we tend to assume that we know how hotels operate. There are a few things about hotel rooms that might come as a surprise to you. Though you might hear the front desk say that there is no difference between one room and another, there is a definite difference from room to room. Some rooms offer better view, some have better luggage space, some have larger baths. A friendly chat with a friend desk or a small reward will help you secure that. Discounts may not always work in your favor, though we all like to get a good bargain, but the fact of life is you get what you pay for. Online booking might sound good but most hotels give a deep discount on online booking just to come up on top in the searches. This sometimes pushes their price below a profitable range or just above it. If getting the best price is only criteria then go for it, otherwise paying a few bucks extra may actually be the right thing to do. There are sites that display prices after aggregating from various sites. Check the lowest price, use that as a starting point, call the hotel and negotiate with them. You will get a better deal. As an extension to this do not call an 800 number for most probably you will get a better price on a direct call. While calling on most hotels try booking in the 3 PM to 6 PM slot that is the time when you would get the cheapest prices. You might not know this but the toilet is not the worst in terms of germs. The items found to have the maximum number of germs is usually the remote controls, switches etc. Avoid handling it directly or use a wipe to clean the surface first. Though it might sound wasteful it is actually a better to ask for fresh linen, if the room has not been in use for a number of days the linen may be as old. There are certain sites online where you can go and check for your hotel and see how clean it is rated. The next one is a dirty trick, but you can get away from paying a last-minute cancellation fees. Call of the hotel and asked them to postpone your reservation to the next week. In most of the cases they will do so. You can call up in a day or 2 to cancel the reservation and you won't have to pay any fees. Hotels do overbook, if you ever find yourself in such a situation, and the front are simply informs you that there is no room available for which you have a booking there are obliged to provide you with an equivalent room in an equivalent hotel. These are a few of the things that hotels won't tell you about. 1.8k Views Pieter D. Rossouw Pieter D. Rossouw, Author of the book Why are Africans so Poor? published on Amazon Updated Oct 28, 2015 So in addition to the peephole tape suggested what else can you do to check the room and bathroom? Well take a little Hanna Chlorine checker along Checker®HC Handheld Colorimeter - Free Chlorine with this you can check if the water chlorination is above 0.2ppm Free Chlorine. If it is at this level you can be reassured that the bathroom is reasonably sterile as the evaporation of the final rinse water would have increased the Chlorine level in the remaining dampness and this would have largely sterilized the surfaces. If you want to check if the blankets, sheets, remote and phone are bacteria free carry an ATP tester Hygiena - Products - systemSURE PLus http://... can do this job. 4.3k Views · View Upvotes Aldrin Leal Aldrin Leal Written Sep 30, 2014 One key architectural aspect of Hotels is Suicide Prevention. This explains why Balconies are in disuse, Windows can't open too much, and (up to some extent) why Bibles are kept in your room. 2.9k Views · View Upvotes William Payne William Payne, keeping my women happy since 1951 Written Mar 19, 2013 My wife travels frequently, and agrees with all the answers here, but would add one thing: you should know that the dirtiest thing in any good hotel room is likely to be the TV remote. It has been handled by countless people, and is almost never cleaned by staff. She brings travel size hand-wipes to clean it before she picks it up the first time. 14k Views · View Upvotes Cooper Woods Cooper Woods Written Dec 20, 2013 Those lavatory glasses aren’t as clean as you think that. You’ll be thirsty, but beware. Before you drink from that paper-covered glass the lavatory, wash it out with soap and water. No soap was concerned, however some probably unhealthful liquid was. They don’t take the time to sanitize them during a dishwasher. At the best they merely wiped with a rag or rinsed them with plain water. AweeeE! 3.6k Views · View Upvotes Natalia Balska Natalia Balska Written Sep 9, 2014 Be prepared that the only clean thing in your room is the bed sheets/towels. I worked during my first years in Uni as a maid during the summer. They were 4/5 star hotels in London, around 200 pounds per night. What some maids and managers done to save time was awful. Normally you get allocated around 20 minutes to prepare the room. That means you usually don't have enough time to do everything properly unless you want to do unpaid overtime. I mean not only has the linen need to be changed, but also bathroom has to be cleaned and dried without spots, glasses washed, toilet paper end bend with the manual, bins emptied, bar restocked, flat surfaces wiped and some not needed stuff arranged on them by the manual, laundry hauled off to the shoot, the list goes on. The manager or key maid would come and inspect the cleanness. What I saw: manager getting a sponge cleaning toilet from some dry water spots spots, getting some more cleaning liquid and proceeding to clean the water glasses on the was basin, getting pillow cases / towels from previous guests to clean and dry off the bathroom walls/tubs/sinks/desks (well, no spots from water but...), different colour sponges used for different cleaning purposes landing in one big box at the end of the day to dry without sterilising them (this is solely manager staff fault - there is no way they didn't know about that, they just didn't care). In other worlds it was disgusting lack of responsibility towards the clients, yes the room was spotless but... I hope I at least saved some poor souls but washing the glasses with soap and my hands and drying them with toilet paper. 3.5k Views · View Upvotes Shaunette Babb Shaunette Babb Written Mar 20, 2013 My experience is that a hotel wouldn't necessarily change the blanket every day (maybe every 2 days), but they would certainly change it after every check-out (or before every check-in). So a new guest would be guaranteed to have totally new linen and a more thoroughly cleaned room than someone who was just staying on. So the cleaners were allocated more time for a check-in/out room. Personally, I wouldn't have any problem with sleeping on the same sheets 2-3 nights in a row . . . same way most hotels try to encourage you to reuse towels. I'd definitely want clean towels and linen on my first night though. 3.5k Views · View Upvotes Amanda Williams Amanda Williams Written Dec 15, 2015 Mattresses at hotels rarely have the important feature of a water proof mattress protector. Without one, it may be hazardous to your health. Protection from allergens, dust mites, liquids and stains (things detrimental to your health) is what is most important. So check your bed for a waterproof mattress pad. You may want to bring one with you wherever you go. That might sound extreme but taking your health seriously is important. It can also be good to use a mattress pad on your beds at home as well. I have always used Protect-a-bed (https://www.protectabed.com/content/mattress_protectors.asp) and would recommend them to anyone. 1.1k Views Fred Landis Fred Landis, Investigative Reporter Written Mar 13, 2013 There are 2 popular TV shows on rescuing bad hotels. The default action by Gordon Ramsey or Melchioni is to do an ultraviolet-light display of the bed. We know the place has been used by other people. We know it is not aseptically clean. You are still safer in a $200 hotel room than a $1500 hospital room. IS THERE NOISE! That is what I do not know. That is what I want to know. Normally people are in hotels because they are travelling, often before getting on a plane. If you cannot sleep because of the noise you are going to miss your flight. This could be expensive and frustrating. How to get a truthful answer. Ask the maids. Is there insulated glazing? How thick are the walls.? Is there a restaurant in the floor above? What time do the maids knock on the doors or start cleaning? Do the maids respect "Do not disturb" signs? How far is the elevator or ice machine? Does the mini-bar, clock-radio, or air-conditioning make noise? 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Hariharan Sundaram Hariharan Sundaram, FD (2015-present) Written Mar 9 My experience in a hotel in Hyderabad: I had gone on an official trip. I was ok with the room. no complaints....the room had a bath tub.. had not had an opportunity to sit in a bath tub earlier.... spent quite a time in the tub..... quite hot water.....enjoyed... came into the room..... refreshed/tired... Relaxing on the bed... eyes closed..... There was a call from the reception.... She: Are you Ok Sir??? Me: (confused) : hmmm She: Oh Ok sir... wanted to know if you want something..... Me: No thanks... bye How did she out of the blue want to know if everything was ok??? Mystery!!!! Cheers: 191 Views · View Upvotes Kumar Indresh Kumar Indresh Written Mar 29, 2013 I travel frequently and this is my list of things to keep in mind: Don't place orders off the room-service menu over the phone, ask for someone to be in the room and take orders- you can then read from their face or simply ask what is fresh (fresh prawn that just arrived today) and what is good to order (the Chinese chef is on leave, if you order Chinese, it will probably be not that good) Don't touch the TV remote while eating. If you must use a tissue. Same goes with the menu and the intercom phone set. Hotels will not mind if you ask for a fresh bedding. If you don't overdo, you can have a fresh linen every time you feel like. 2.8k Views · View Upvotes Bob William Bob William, studied at University of Georgia Written Mar 19, 2013 A growing number of roadside motels are adopting a cost-cutting practice that is very common in India and some Asian countries. They collect the partially used bars of soap from the showers and use them, in lieu of detergent, to wash bedding.