Hotels that go the extra mile to make sure their guests are happy and comfortable always win top marks on online review sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp.
But, some establishments even go further by surprising and delighting everyone with their cheeky creativity! These hotels aim to please with their rubber ducky toiletries, hot Nutella dispensers, and train car rooms that take you back to the golden age of train travel.
These 60 hotels from around the world will put a smile on your face and give you a hearty chuckle with their over-the-top customer service tactics. After a long day of travel, a good laugh is the best gift ever!
1) “My hotel in China has a card to give to a taxi driver so you can find your way back.”
This is such a brilliant idea! When you’re in new surroundings, it’s easy to get lost and turned around.
2) “This bag of old/stained face towels have been re-used as “rags” at this hotel.”
The hotel provided their guests a plastic baggie filled with stained face towels, but they weren’t being mean. It was actually for a very eco-friendly reason!
“I am “The Rag.” I may be stained and torn but I am CLEAN. I can be used to clean up the most stubborn items, such as coffee, makeup, oil, or mud. If you require more of “The Rag”, please contact the Front Desk.”
3) “The toiletries at my hotel in Switzerland included a rubber ducky.”
This should be standard practice for every hotel chain! I would love to relax in a nice hot bath and destress with a familiar childhood toy.
4) “More hotels should do this.”
When you’re on holiday or traveling on a long road trip, sometimes you just want to sleep in.
If you’re one of the lucky guests at this hotel and it’s a Sunday, breakfast doesn’t end until noon and you don’t have to check out until 6PM!
This guy travels for work and frequents the same hotel. One day he decided to get cheeky and ask the staff to outfit his room like a fort, and this is what they gave him.
6) “My hotel wants you to take the nice soap home!”
Emerson Resorts give their guests a cute doggie bag for their soap. This is such a great idea, because otherwise it would get chucked straight into the trash!
“Take your soap home! Tons of slightly used bar soaps are discarded daily by hotels. If you choose to take your soap home, a usable product won’t be wasted.”
7) “This hotel actually makes it easy to connect your laptop to the TV.”
This hotel has every audio/video plug imaginable so you can watch Netflix on the big screen. It even has a connector for a much older VGA hookup!
8) “Hotel staff found Fifty Shades of Grey book on guest’s side table…”
The housekeeper at this hotel got playfully cheeky with one of the most read “adult” books on the planet. At least there’s plenty of hand towels to go around.
9) Coconut Weather Station
Punxsutawney Phil pops up out of the ground once a year to give us a weather report in the spring. But if you’re staying at Le Méridien Kochi in India, you can get a year-round weather report courtesy of this coconut weather station.
10) “This hostel in Germany is an indoor vintage RV park.”
This would be such a cool place to stay. Talk about a unique destination resort!
11) “Hotel maid clearly found my sunglasses.”
This is the sort of personal touch that makes traveling fun! Who wouldn’t want to come back to their hotel room and find cute little elephant?
12) A “Bible” For Humanity
In the US, it’s common practice for hotels to leave a copy of the Bible in their hotel rooms. This hotel decided to cater to everyone with a bible for humanity.
go the non-sectarian route.
@amysplat:
“My hotel has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights next to the bed instead of a bible.”
13) “This is what happens if you tip Egyptian hotel service generously.”
People who work in the hospitality industry often times rely on tips. Not everyone tips the housekeeper for their hard work, but if you do, you might get a very sweet little surprise like this!
14) “This kids menu at the hotel I’m staying at.”
If you have kids that don’t care, don’t know, and they’re not hungry (which is pretty much every parent), then you’ll love this menu. It has practically everything they want!
This looks like so much fun! Why stay in a standard rectangular hotel room, when you can stay in a long train car and pretend like you’re on the Orient Express?
@spongecandybandit:
“It was in Indianapolis, IN, USA. The hotel was the Crowne Plaza Downtown (aka Union Station). A ton of history is available about the hotel, and it’s extremely interesting to train lovers. At night, because there’s a functioning train station attached, I was warned by the staff that trains come through and it can be very loud. It woke me up the first night because I thought a train was about to come through my room. But they don’t use the bell or horn, and the rumble and clatter was actually very soothing. It ended up being my favorite part of every night, falling asleep to the sound of the trains.”
16) “Saw this in the hotel grounds where I was working today.”
Got wifey problems? Take her on a long stroll around the hotel grounds! She’ll eventually get tired and need a place to sit down and rest.
17) Blackout Curtains That Actually Work
Hotel curtains never seem to close all the way no matter how tight you pull it shut. This hotel has a brilliantly engineered curtain rod that fixes that!
@taharoto:
“The design of the curtains in my hotel room to ensure that there is no annoying light gap in the middle.”
18) “The hotel my parents are staying at in NC to watch the eclipse stocked all of the rooms with these.”
Remember the Great American Eclipse of 2017? It was total solar eclipse that could be seen from coast-to-coast. No solar eclipse had been visible in the entire US for nearly 100 years, so everyone was making travel plans to see it.
19) “Instead of bibles, my hotel has copies of 1984.”
Before Big Brother was a hit reality TV show, government surveillance was the central theme in George Orwell’s dystopian novel,
1984.
When he wrote it in 1949, the year 1984 was still very much in the future. For this hotel at least, it looks like Big Brother made it into everyone’s hotel room.
Pretty much everyone ignores those fire evacuation plans posted in their hotel rooms. This hotel was smart enough to put extra signs at ground level, so their guests can actually see the escape route if a fire does break out.
@cawclot:
“The hotel I am staying at has the fire evacuation plans at ground level so you can see them if smoke has filled the hallways.”
21) Built-In Travel Adapter
If you travel overseas, you can’t just plug in your phone or laptop. But, if you forgot to pack a travel adapter, this nice hotel has got you covered.
@bide1:
“My hotel in Switzerland has different plug sockets for guests from different parts of the world.”
22) “”I Left My Jacket at a Hotel and They Mailed it to Me with a Complementary Pillow.”
Most things that end up at a hotel’s “lost and found” bin are never recovered by the original owner. This hotel not only went out of their way to return the owner’s jacket, but they also included an fluffy memento to remind him of his stay.
23) “These do not disturb options at my hotel.”
I’m all about the bacon. But, if you’re into time travel, this hotel has you covered with flux capacitors, too! Don’t you love it when your hotel has a sense of humor?
24) “I didn’t think this sort of thing really happens.”
Not every hotel delivers when it comes to amenities like gorgeous views, heated pools, and fabulous food. But when this guy made a very simple request, they over delivered in a very hilarious way!
@habitsofwaste:
“I asked the hotel to hide a picture of Robert Downey jr in my room. I forgot all about it and when I went to take a hot bath to wash off a shitty day, I caught sight of this.”
25) “The hotel I stayed at uses lemon grass instead of a plastic straw.”
Plastic straws are a huge problem for our planet, so when a hotel makes eco-friendly decisions like this, people love it! In case you’re wondering, the original poster said that her drink didn’t taste like lemongrass.
26) “My hotel in Odessa (Ukraine) tells you which day it is by changing the elevator carpet every day.”
Sometimes when you’re traveling across multiple time zones, it’s easy to forget what day it is. That’s totally not a problem at this hotel!
Now all we need is a rug that will tell us what time it is.
27) “This hotel lets you borrow a plant to take to your room so you have a friend to talk to.”
Sometimes it’s hard to meet new people and make new friends when you’re traveling alone. If you’re not into taking strangers into your room, take a nice plant instead!
28) “This hotel in Singapore is very green.”
With things like deforestation and the destruction of natural habitats happening all around us, this green-themed hotel is a breath of fresh air. Hopefully we’ll lush urban areas like this become the norm.
@labitx:
“Being green in Singapore is a necessity as much as government policy. Every development has a required percentage of green gross floor area.”
29) “A black towel in my hotel room for make-up so the white ones don’t get stained.”
Stained linen is a big deal at hotels because it can cost a pretty penny to replace. Hotels like this one got smart, and they’re now providing guests with black towels for makeup removal.
@snowlock27:
“I work in a hotel. You wouldn’t believe how many wash cloths we have to throw away because guests think they’re makeup removers. That stuff does not wash off.”
30) “In the Europa Park Hotel in Germany there is a tiny children bathroom in the bathroom.”
Okay, this one may hurt your brain. At first glance this looks like a mirror, but it’s not! It’s actually bathroom within a bathroom, which is something else that’s hard to wrap your brain around.
31) “This hotel in central London keeps beehives on their roof!”
Not only do they keep beehives, but it also looks like they built a grassland prairie, too! I bet the honey they offer for guests with their tea tastes amazing.
32) “This hotel shampoo assumes your theft.”
It’s really nice when hotels acknowledge your intent to commit a toiletry crime. What better way to show the love than to give you a huge bottle of shampoo that gives you permission to steal!
33) “Honorary Manager of Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs is a cat, and this is his door.”
If you attempt to lodge a complaint at this hotel, you’ll never find the manager. How clever of them!
34) “The hostel I’m at dispenses soap like parmesan.”
Remember back in grade school when the soap dispensers gave you gritty pink soap powder? When you rubbed your hands with water, it never got sudsy. Ah, those were the good old days!
35) “The staff at our hotel made a cool crocodile out of our towels.”
They were also kind enough to feed the crocotowel while he was out. It just loves noshing on his kid’s stuffed animals!
36) “Sometimes the hotel holding your wedding also has a llama convention booked.”
This hotel had a traveling petting zoo in their main lobby. What I want to know is, how is this even a thing, and where’s the next one?
37)”A really cool bookshelf whose shelves spell something, seen at a hotel.”
We’ve all seen those free “take a book, leave a book” library. It’s a cool concept, but this hotel took it a step further.
The shelves actually spell it out!
38) “The toilet in my hotel in filled with seawater.”
This hotel literally brings the scent of fresh ocean air right into your bathroom. As long as an octopus doesn’t suddenly pop into the bowl while you’re on the loo, then it’s no big deal.
“As part of our green initiatives sea water is used for the toilet flushing. Occasionally there might be a distinctive sea water scent.”
39) “My hotel room comes with a complimentary android phone with free data and calls.”
Many hotels still have old-fashioned landlines in their rooms, but this hotel is from the future! It seems to be common practice in places like high-tech cities like Hong Kong.
@topgrinder:
“I used this service in Hong Kong at the intercontinental hotel. It was awesome. I just used it as a WiFi hotspot everyday and used my iPhone for everything. The phone would last about 10 hours of moderate usage. I would stay at the hotel again just for this feature. It made navigating the city much easier.”
40) “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
This is a bathroom that hard-working men will enjoy spending time in! The writing on the wall says it all! The hatchet and bathmat with bloody footprints lends a nice touch to this man-cave bathroom.
“As a guy who takes his family to a hotel every winter while I work on my writing, I approve this bathroom.”
41) “Hotel maid left a towel monkey.”
As someone who worked as a hotel housekeeper for two weeks and couldn’t make towels look like anything but towels, you have to hand it people who have talent like this. What makes this even better is that the monkey is hanging from the ceiling!
42) “My hotel room had a white noise machine installed in the wall.”
Not everyone wants to tote around bulky white noise cancelling headphones on their trips. This hotel went the extra mile to include a built-in white noise machine in the room.
43) “The hotel I’m staying at has a lending locker.”
This takes borrowing a cup of sugar from your neighbor to a whole new level! Whatever you could possibly need for your stay is right there in this lending locker. How cool!
44) “This hotel’s carpet and lighting combo produce a really trippy effect.”
You’re in for a legal psychedelic trip when you stay at this hotel. The visuals are out of this world!
45) “When the hotel staff has your back.”
This guy’s date made it clear that he wasn’t going to get lucky that night. He didn’t want to make her feel pressured, especially since they were going to be sharing the same hotel room. So, he asked the hotel to add a special note to make her feel more comfortable about her stay.
“This is a strict NO SEX ROOM. It is imperative that you do not engage in any form of intercourse. Thank you and happy cuddling.”
46) “Spotted this in the breakfast room at my hotel this morning.”
Wait, what? You just press a button and you get hot pancakes made from scratch? Hotel life can’t get any better than this!
47) “A Hotel’s reminder on how to climb stairs.”
I think a lot of people might get stuck in the stairwell after step 3. What about steps 4 and 5?
48) “This hotel is an old prison.”
Talk about spending time with bad company! Even though it’s no longer a prison, surely all that bad energy that’s built up over the years is still lingering around.
If you’re itching to get locked up, this hotel is Malmaison in Oxford in the UK.
49) Do Not Disturb My Dog
One of the biggest fears that a pet owner has when they travel with dogs is having their furry friend escape when the housekeeper opens the door. This pet-friendly door tag takes care of that!
@tunafriendlydolphin:
“This Hotel allows dogs and you can alert the cleaners that you left your dog in the room while you ski [translation: Attention, I am sleeping here!]”
50) “EAST Miami hotel’s elevator wall has tiny lights and a mirror effect to appear as a view of stars in outer space.”
This is probably not the elevator you want to be in after hopping around Miami’s club scene. But for everyone else, it’s a totally stellar experience!
51) “The hotel I’m staying at gives you a free drink at the hotel bar of you forego a room cleaning.”
I imagine there must be a lot of dirty rooms at this hotel! But on the same note, there must be plenty of happy guests, too.
52) “Floor of my hotel dining room in Lausanne is a working train model.”
This hotel is a train lover’s dream! Even though it sits flush with the floor, it almost seems disrespectful to walk all over it.
53) “Hotel has zombie apocalypse in safety plan.”
This hotel is prepping for that inevitable “just in case” scenario. If the zombie apocalypse ever become real, they have an escape plan for that.
54) “This hotel has an elevator button in the hallway so there is an elevator waiting for you by time you get there.”
Okay, this needs to be a standard feature in every hotel! Just don’t be that person who waits in front of the wall, expecting it to open.
55) “Instead of a bible, my hotel room in Philadelphia has the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.”
The Founding Fathers of the United States would be proud to know that their most brilliant works are being featured on this hotel’s must-read list. This is such a fabulous idea!
56) “The stairs in a Swedish hotel.”
Everyone loves freebies, and this hotel is offering a stellar deal for their guests. Their amenities include a staircase, which doubles as a free workout room!
57) “This historic sign in my hotel explains how to use electricity in case you had never used it before.”
When electricity was still brand new, people were afraid that it would blow up in their face. Historic pieces like this remind us what it was like back in the early days of light bulbs.
58) “My hotel room has a rope that turns on/off all the lights in the room.”
This is like “The Clapper,” but it’s silent. Hey, when you’re on vacation, you’re allowed to be lazy AF! Plus, all those extra pillows are just inviting you to stay in bed.
59) “The hotel I’m staying at has a pet menu for room service.”
The pets that stay here might be eating healthier than you. They even get a bottle of spring water with the meal.
60) “This hotel in Luxembourg had a hot Nutella dispenser.”
This right here people is heaven on earth! It needs to be mass produced right now so it can be shipped in time for Christmas.
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