Why is it that hotel rooms don’t have one switch that turns on the main lights in the room like every other room in the world? The switch by the door makes a tiny bit of light, and to get any significant amount of light in the room you need to go running around turning on all the lamps. This can’t save electricity, since it certainly isn’t easy to shut those lamps off. Any ideas?
Possibly so that one guest can come in later than another guest and turn on enough light to see around the hotel room without waking the guest who may have already gone to bed.
Merely speculation…
Hotels rarely have ceiling lights; they usually have lamps beside the bed and on the table/dresser. The only ceiling light is in the entryway.
If the switch by the door controlled all the lights then when you went to bed you would have to get up, turn the lights off, then stumble through a dark, unfamiliar room back to bed.
If the switch by the bed controlled all the lights then the light in the entryway would be on all the time when you really don’t need it.
The entry light lets you see when you enter the room. The desk/dresser light lets you see when you are using those areas and the bedside light lets you see how to get to bed and lets you read or whatever while in bed. Specific lights for specific purposes.