Anal business traveler: Hotel room review

Ordinarily, i think i don't complain much (or maybe i do?). And i like to think that i deal with limitations and little annoying problems well.

However, when you are on the road for 1.5 months living in a hotel room, all the little things start adding up.

So here's my list of gripes about the Hilton I'm staying at. Damn that design class I took at Stanford!

For the record, i'm lazy, the hotel is only 3 minutes from work, i'm getting the "hilton points" so i'm not moving. but i can still complain.

Quick Summary: whoever designed the room was a total idiot, moron, and never stayed in the room or took a shower in the bathroom. There, I'm done.

There are 2 sets of rooms - the "remodeled" and "old". Old is dingy, but at least better designed.

Moving on:

1. Each room has only 1 spare plug. you use that for your laptop, cell phone charger and tea kettle. Eh, hello? Have these people not discovered electricity yet?
2. In "remodeled" rooms, the tea kettle takes up 2 out of 4 drawers. what a waste.
3. the wardrobe near the door is tiny and shallow, the hanging rod is positioned facing you so you can at most hang 4-5 items.
   
4. Breakfast buffet is 18GBP!! That's the best $33 toast i've ever had
5. Internet is 15GBP/day. That's about $10/hour, since i'd only maybe use it for 2 hours..
   
6. The pool is L-shaped. But the sauna is nice.
7. Sheets have weird stains on them. Good thing i take out my contacts before i go to sleep so i can't see anything.
   
8. Staff: not very attentive to details. I'd check out and leave my luggage with concierge when i traveled around on weekends, and every time i came back on sunday they assured me my suitcase was waiting for me in the room but it never happened. I have no problems getting it myself, but why promise that it'd be there?
   
9. Ligthing in the "remodeld" rooms is retarded - the overhead "room light" is only at the front entrance, you have to walk to the end of the room to turn on an additional lamp.
10. Bathroom counter is "designer shaped", which looks nice but cuts down on useful amount of counter space. Where do i put my 12 kinds of moisturizer?
    
11. Faucet is really strange - you have to turn the hot/cold water knobs 3-4 complete rotations until any water comes out. But at least it's better than the usual british sink which has 2 separate faucets for hot/cold water. In new houses!
    
12. Interestingly, the tub doesn't have any convenient place to put the long cylindrical shampoo/gel/conditioner that they give you.
13. And my favourite: Shower curtains are very light and always cling to you when you take a shower. That way, you won't have to put "please place curtain in tub" stickers all over the place - if it didn't stick to my ass, i wouldn't take it out!

There, i'm done.

Overall, it seems that whoever designed the bathroom never actually took a shower in it - none of these poor design decisions are a big deal, but they are so obvious to notice and add up to a fairly frustrating experience overall.