| What do you look for in a hotel room, what makes | | | | stay in that hotel. |
| the perfect bedroom when you're staying in a | | | | As for the beds, you expect these to be big, with |
| swanky hotel? Obviously decor is important, there's | | | | firm mattresses and crisp, clean, fresh white sheets |
| nothing quite as disappointing as turning up at a hotel | | | | and not only this but you don't expect there to be a |
| which look fabulous online only to find that the luxury | | | | lump or crease in sight. The whole idea of sleeping in |
| which the photographs promised is in fact luxury | | | | a bed which has been slept in by hundreds of people |
| from a bygone era and the whole place needs a | | | | before you is a little strange in itself but you can deal |
| serious revamp. If your hotel room has carpet and | | | | with this fact just as long as it is cleaned and made |
| curtains from the 1970s and looks like it hasn't been | | | | to such a high standard that you wouldn't even think |
| cleaned since then either then your holiday may not | | | | about other people. |
| be quite as swanky as you'd imagined. | | | | If you've ever stayed in a swanky hotel then, one |
| Aside from dated decor, probably the next two | | | | which lives up to all expectations of what a luxury |
| most obvious indicators of a hotel not living up to its | | | | hotel looks like in your mind, you'll know that while |
| description on the website are the beds and the | | | | your bedroom at home is your bedroom and |
| bathrooms. The bathroom is a tricky one because | | | | therefore always going to be nice, it would be nice to |
| bathrooms can look dated and dirty very quickly | | | | recreate some of the luxury of those hotel rooms. In |
| because of the sheer footfall they experience and | | | | doing so the best place to start is with the bed |
| yet they're expensive to replace and so hotels have | | | | because you'll never find a top quality hotel with a |
| to repaint and grout every couple of months to | | | | small, uncomfortable bed. Look into the range of big |
| make sure each en suite looks as sparkling as | | | | double beds available or if you have the space, king |
| possible. Many a hotel guest will have complained | | | | size beds automatically add an air of luxury and |
| about a shabby bathroom over the years and this | | | | teamed with crisp Egyptian cotton sheets can |
| can mean the difference between a returning patron | | | | transport you to a place of luxury every night. |
| and one who tells all their friends categorically not to | | | | |