# Hotels need to ditch all the damn signage and nonsense in the rooms! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609 "2013-12-18T01:33:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/21 "2013-12-19T01:29:14Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > At a hotel in Delaware I found a very large and very bright night light that could not be turned off. I complained to the front desk, but they told me it was required by state law. I had to pile up the guide to services folder and some pillows to block the light to a reasonable state of darkness to sleep. Probably a fire hazard. :rolleyes: I usually have to cover all the lights from the alarm clock to the blinking smoke detectors. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/22 "2013-12-19T01:54:12Z")
Yeah. I unplug the tv and anything else with a bright LED. I have also unplugged the fridge it if was too noisy. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/23 "2013-12-19T02:27:05Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I usually have to cover all the lights from the alarm clock to the blinking smoke detectors. I need to start travelling with a roll of black electrical tape. Sometimes the lights in the room are too bright for me to sleep. I am a delicate flower and I need my beauty sleep goddammit! ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/24 "2013-12-19T02:44:37Z")
I never thought to just leave the _Do not Disturb_ sign up all the time until I was working nights one week. Now i always leave it up. I feel kind of scolded when I get the _We couldn’t clean your room_ card one hotel leaves me, but not enough to not leave the sign up. I’ll have to rig something up to tell if they’ve actually checked in my room the next time I do this, though. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/25 "2013-12-19T03:24:33Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I imagine that the pool of people willing to pay a 300% markup to avoid the “inconvenience” of walking down the hall to the vending machine probably isn’t terribly large, and shrinking every day as people realize what huge ripoff minibars are. > > Yeah, I know business travelers usually expense everything, yadda yadda, but the guys in accounting are damn sure gonna care. My company’s travel guidlines make it clear that the company will not pick up the tab for any of that crap. Minibars are for when your drunk ay 2am and no longer care about the markup. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/26 "2013-12-19T03:41:00Z")
could be worse, could be [soap](http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/soap.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/27 "2013-12-19T04:49:44Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Wow. I would be screwed if I had my kids in that room. Yeah. Even for pretty good kids, that’s so asking for trouble leaving a pile of goodies in reach. I don’t know if they’ll take it away if you ask or if they have rooms without. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/28 "2013-12-19T04:54:26Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Minibars are for when your drunk ay 2am and no longer care about the markup. Under that circumstance, I’ll agree–until the next morning when you look at the empty bottles and ask, “What have I done?” _Then_, you care about the markup. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/29 "2013-12-19T06:22:19Z")
And the dead hooker. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/30 "2013-12-19T10:37:23Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > As I understand things, it is a matter of policy in many hotel and motel chains to have access to your room at least once in every 24-hour period. We’d only had the room maybe 12 hrs (possibly less, definitely no longer) when this happened. > [@](#): > > I know it won’t keep the staff out if the hotel determines that it absolutely has to enter. The sign won’t but the lock that only opens on the inside will. Like I said, I was in there, trying to sleep, not trying to keep them out the entire stay, just that day. The next day we went to see the sights and didn’t put the sign up. It’s not that we didn’t want anyone in the room ever, it’s that at that time I did not want to be disturbed, silly, I know. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/31 "2013-12-19T10:38:09Z")
I put up the Do Not Disturb sign yesterday. Housekeeping knocked on my door 3 times!? I give up! ---
**Author:** ![HipGnosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HipGnosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HipGnosis)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/32 "2013-12-19T16:39:45Z")
Knock Knock Who’s there? Petty, first world, I want the world to constantly kiss my ass, whining!!! And guess what else… you’re blowing it out your petuut whining here. Call the hotel desk. Ask to speak with a manager. Ask him or her where the nearest motel you can rent by the hour is. They won’t have any of these pesky irritants that you can’t tolerate. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/33 "2013-12-19T17:18:27Z")
> [@HipGnosis](#): > > Knock Knock > Who’s there? > Petty, first world, I want the world to constantly kiss my ass, whining!!! > > And guess what else… you’re blowing it out your petuut whining here. > Call the hotel desk. Ask to speak with a manager. Ask him or her where the nearest motel you can rent by the hour is. They won’t have any of these pesky irritants that you can’t tolerate. What exactly the fuck is your problem. Here’s a first world problem for you, stop reading threads that annoy your precious sensibilities and let us discuss solutions to problems that don’t apply to you. No one here wants anyone to kiss our ass. It’s the exact opposite. We want to be left alone. ---
**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/34 "2013-12-19T17:34:59Z")
As a former hotel manager, those signs are there so when you call corporate to say that there was no signs that said that you couldn’t or shouldn’t do that thing you did, we can say that sign said that thing said don’t do that thing, please. ---
**Author:** ![HipGnosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HipGnosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HipGnosis)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/35 "2013-12-19T19:58:55Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > What exactly the fuck is your problem. Here’s a first world problem for you, stop reading threads that annoy your precious sensibilities and let us discuss solutions to problems that don’t apply to you. No one here wants anyone to kiss our ass. It’s the exact opposite. We want to be left alone. Someone needs a nap. Can you get to sleep w/o your binkie? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/36 "2013-12-19T20:16:10Z")
> [@HipGnosis](#): > > Someone needs a nap. > Can you get to sleep w/o your binkie? You suck at snark. I am no more than mildly amused at your lack of comprehension. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/37 "2013-12-19T20:33:45Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I usually have to cover all the lights from the alarm clock to the blinking smoke detectors. Yeah, me too. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/38 "2013-12-19T22:25:13Z")
If they knocked on my door more than once, especially with the Do Not Disturb sign posted for them, I would get up and answer the door, and give them an earful. Then I would call the front desk and demand a manager, and give him an earful. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609/39 "2013-12-19T23:12:28Z")
> [@HipGnosis](#): > > Knock Knock > Who’s there? > Petty, first world, I want the world to constantly kiss my ass, whining!!! > > And guess what else… you’re blowing it out your petuut whining here. > Call the hotel desk. Ask to speak with a manager. Ask him or her where the nearest motel you can rent by the hour is. They won’t have any of these pesky irritants that you can’t tolerate. > [@HipGnosis](#): > > Someone needs a nap. > Can you get to sleep w/o your binkie? This is a warning for you. Stop posting in this manner (and this thread if you can’t control your insults/outrage). Take it to the BBQ Pit and out of this thread, or you may get more warnings. Everyone else: Let’s take it to the Pit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotels-need-to-ditch-all-the-damn-signage-and-nonsense-in-the-rooms/676609.md?page=1)