Ever found yourself tossing and turning in a hotel room, pondering why all establishments don’t cater to sleep like a top-tier spa? Well, I’ve been there, and let me tell you—there are some hotels out there that truly get it. Imagine a place where every detail is designed with your comfort in mind, from complimentary soap you can take home to cleverly engineered blackout curtains. Some hotels go above and beyond in surprising and delightful ways, ensuring that your stay is not just tolerable, but downright enjoyable. So, let’s dive into this list of remarkable hotel features that make you wonder—why can’t every hotel be like this? LEARN MORE.
Why can’t all hotels be like the hotels on this list? When you’re away from home and all you want is a good night’s sleep, these hotels have got your back. Keep reading to see how some hotels are doing it right.
Hotels can’t reuse the bars of soap that they leave in your room, even if you don’t use them.
That’s why this hotel provides guests with a soap take-home bag.
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The curtain rods over this hotel window overlap so that absolutely no light can come in and wake you up in the morning.
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Why aren’t all curtain rods like this?
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Jeff travels a lot for work, and he often stays at Hampton hotels.
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This time, when he booked his stay at the hotel, he requested a room with a fort.
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Not only did Hampton Inn create a pillow fort for Jeff, they also left him this note in his room.
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It includes important rules of the fort such as “no passing gas in the fort.”
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This hotel in Jiangsu Province leaves a card in guests’ rooms that guests can use to tell taxi drivers where to drop them off if they get lost.
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This is genius.
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This hotel posts copies of their evacuation plan close to the ground so if guests ever have to crawl out of their rooms due to a fire or smoke, they’ll know where to go.
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That’s just smart!
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Lots of high-end hotels like to leave little towel sculptures on the beds, but this one is unlike any other towel sculpture in the game.
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Whoever made this is a true artist.
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This hotel knows exactly how kids can be sometimes. Their room service menu has something for everybody—even the pickiest of children.
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The “I’m Not Hungry” sounds pretty delicious. I’ll take two.
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Speaking of kids in hotel rooms, this hotel has a little, kid-sized washroom right next to the main washroom in all of their guest rooms.
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What’s not to love about a little door?
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Paper straws are good for the environment, but they get soggy pretty quickly.
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This hotel came up with a better solution. They use lemongrass straws in their drinks. It adds a citrusy flavor to your beverage, and it saves the planet.
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This hotel gives guests a black makeup-remover towel so that they don’t get makeup stains all over the clean white towels.
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This makes so much sense. Maybe we should all have black towels at home for this very purpose…
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This hotel has a soap dispenser that dispenses solid soap. It grates the soap kind of like Parmesan cheese.
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All you have to do is add water and start scrubbing.
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This hotel has some plants in their lobby that guests can bring up to their rooms if they want to spend some time with a plant friend.
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This is an excellent idea.
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This hotel in the Ukraine changes the carpet in their elevators every single day.
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That way, whenever guests go in the elevator, they know what day of the week it is.
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This hotel in Switzerland understands that guests traveling from all over the world might have electronic devices that aren’t suited for Swiss plugs.
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That’s why they have plugs from all over the world in their hotel rooms.
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This particular Hilton hotel equips rooms with LogiSon, which is basically like a built-in white noise machine. This is great for guests who have trouble falling asleep.
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If you’re not into white noise, just don’t turn on the machine.
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This hotel knows that sometimes you want to turn on the water in the shower before you actually step in to give the water some time to warm up.
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That’s why there’s a little cutout in the shower door just big enough for an arm.
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This hotel in New York City went all-out on the night of a much-anticipated eclipse.
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They stocked their guests’ rooms with delicious eclipse-themed snacks for the occasion. Out of sight!
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This hotel is doing everything right. Nobody wants to wake up early on a Sunday.
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That’s why they offer guests a late breakfast and a late check-out on any given Sunday.
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This hotel knows how to be environmentally friendly.
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They use seawater in their toilets to reduce their waste. They left this note in the washroom so that guests wouldn’t be startled if they smelled seawater.
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If you need to know what the weather is like, this hotel has a perfect solution. Just check out their coconut weather station.
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Who needs the Weather Channel when you have a coconut?
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We’ve heard of hotels giving out free mini bottles of shampoo, but a free rubber duck?
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That’s next level. You know what this means—they have a storage room somewhere that is full of rubber ducks.
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This hotel in Germany acquired some vintage RVs and constructed their space to look like a vintage trailer park. Now guests can feel like they’re camping.
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What a unique experience!
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This hotel has a pancake machine as part of their complimentary breakfast buffet. What’s better than pancakes?
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Pancakes in 45 seconds, of course. Instant pancakes! I want this in my house.
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How annoying is it when you’re trying to hook up your laptop to a television screen in a hotel and you realize that you forgot to pack a dongle or that the HDMI jack is too hard to reach?
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This hotel is solving all of our problems.
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The honorary manager of Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs is a cat, and this is his door.
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He gets his own special door because he’s the manager and he’s a very important staff member at the hotel.
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This Reddit user left her jacket at a hotel, and when the hotel sent her jacket back to her, they also sent her a complimentary pillow.
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That was so nice of them!
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This hotel has bookshelves in their lobby that spell out the phrase “take a book, leave a book.”
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Guests can borrow books for the night, take books home with them after their stay, and leave books behind for other guests to read.
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This couple booked their wedding at a hotel on the very same night as a llama convention. Let’s just say that they were very happy about this coincidence.
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The llama looks happy too.
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This hotel supplies guests with phones and free data for them to use while they’re out on the town.
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When guests check out of the hotel, they just leave the phones in their rooms.
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If you wear makeup you know the immense guilt of removing your mascara and foundation with a crispy white towel. Nothing you do can make it better.
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This hotel’s work around gives us so much relief now.
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It may seem like a dumb little thing, but the crack of light that comes through the window curtain in hotel can ruin a morning.
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This hotel’s inventive curtain rod designed saved us all.
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No, this is not a woman’s reflection in a mirror.
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She’s standing inside a tiny children’s bathroom that was just off the main bathroom in the Europa Park Hotel in Germany.
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I’m actually trying to decipher what these could all mean.
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Bacon deliveries make sense for room service…but if I put out the Flux Capacitor sign, will they actually send me a radioactive material?
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Honestly, all high-rise buildings should be required to make the most out of their rooftops.
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Whether it’s with solar panels or a bee apiary, all that unused space should be put to good use!
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We all do it. Don’t try and say that you don’t take the mini shampoo, conditioner, and hand lotions.
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It’s kind of an unwritten rule for and at least this hotel has accepted it.
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A lot of the items in this “lending locker” make sense. Looks, toaster ovens, and games can make your stay even better.
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But why would anyone need a hand mixer?
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This is actually a very nice gesture if you’re traveling for business or happen to get stuck in a room with someone platonic.
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It is not a nice gesture if you’re in a One Direction fanfic.
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This nifty historic sign is a funny reminder how strange it would have been to see an electric light for the first time.
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We had no idea people thought electric lights could affect the soundness of sleep.
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The hotel worker that put up these signs must have been feeling very sassy that day.
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The only problem is that no one will know what to do after the third step.