A studio apartment

My Perfect room is like a studio apartment and has all of the amenities you’d have in your studio apartment (except the bicycle). It has a balcony (and view would be nice, but not essential). It has a keypad on the front door and room door. Your codes are emailed, so you never have to wait around doing that annoying check-in. In fact, you never really have to see any hotel staff. A newspaper is delivered every morning early. The phone is free for calls within Canada. There is a grocery store, liquor store, and coffee shop on the same block.

~ Anonymous

The perfect room, I only have a few additional.

Far be it from me to stay silent on this one (!) given I am a frequent travel companion of Jane's - and she hears me rant all the time! The list is looking pretty complete, so I only have a few additional. Here goes:

• a hairdryer that works (ie NOT a wall mounted with a hose that couldn't blow out a match)
• accessible BEDSIDE electrical outlets (ie above or on the bedside table)
• blackout curtains.
• lotion (why do some hotels skimp out on the body lotion?)
• ashtray (ha! Gotcha...I'm joking of course) but it would also be nice if hotels could truly assure you that your "non-smoking room" was indeed that.
• disposable drinking glasses (yes, we'd all prefer glass, but we know they don't get properly cleaned)
• corkscrew (how many room service trips do they need to make before they realize it's cheaper to throw a $2 corkscrew into every room?)

I'm I'll think of more ....but for now that's it! Cool idea.

- Mary

I'm sure I've forgotten something.