{begin business travel rant}
I am currently in the Big Apple, NYC. Hotels here are overpriced at the best of times, but you would think they would be more geared up to business travel. Here are some examples of some crappy things so-called “business” hotels do:
- Fax machine in the room – dude, like the last time I needed a fax machine was in 1992. I now have faxes sent electronically to my email inbox. Yes, even personal faxes are delivered to my gmail account. Don’t waste counter-top real-estate in my already space-challenged room with a piece of equipment which probably doesn’t work anyway
- Wireless access in the lobby – come on – that is just a lame excuse for not offering high speed access in the room. I don’t want to sit surfing surrounded by a bunch of sad losers drinking Bud Light (cue the jokes about making love in a canoe). Especially because I can’t surf in my underpants. Stop being a cheapskate hotel and wire up those rooms now
- Half-size ironing board – this really takes the biscuit. Do you just cater for people smaller than 4′6″? No, so don’t provide an ironing board that folds out of some crappy mirrored cupboard on the wall and doesn’t function for someone who has “some height” about them. And don’t think that a suitable alternative to no ironing board is some overpriced laundry service. I want to iron my own shirts on a full-size ironing board with a decent steam iron. Even offering an ironing room works for me – the only issue being that I can’t iron in my underpants.
{end business travel rant}
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