10. Enough towels for every registered guest.
9. The ability to control room temperature.
8. Room in the refrigerator for a bottle of water.
7. Free parking.
6. A clean bathroom. I mean, really clean, not just kinda clean.
5. Soap that is not scientifically altered to smell like a fruit.
4. Shampoo that is not intended for dry and unmanageable hair.
3. WiFi
2. Free WiFi
1. Coffee, anytime, anywhere.
This is premised on the Motel 6 theory, that being that if Motel 6 can do it for $49.95, the friggin Hyatt Regency Century Plaza can do it for $479.95. I’m shocked they don’t charge a nickel for every piece of toilet paper, given how they nickel and dime everything else in this joint. And then still screw it all up. My personal favorite is the ball of someone else’s used dental floss in the corner of the bathroom under the sink. Gag me.
The correct answer to “is there anything else I can do for you, Sir,” is “you would have to do a first thing for me before you can do ‘anything else’.”
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Ditch that place. Come on back home.
When I travel on business I shoot for hotels in the Clarion (if I can find it)/Comfort/Quality Inn chain. They’ve been nice enough to give me good quality razors, free of charge, on two occasions when I’d forgotten my own, and their bathrooms are spotless, even in the cheap hotels.
#4 & #5 don’t bother me, and really, neither does #6, and I’ll trade #1 for easy access to a Diet Coke machine and an icemaker. Really, though, the hotel doesn’t matter as long as I have a car and can get the heck out of there.
And that does what for me?
Personally, I’d like shampoo that is clearly marked as “SHAMPOO,” and not given some fancy name that a marketing genius created to justify tripling the price.
One last thing….$479/night?