Monday, June 04, 2007

What do business travelers want in a hotel?

Andy Abramson has a business travel blog, “Working Anywhere,” and posts a list of his requirements for amentities hotels should offer business travelers. The list is good (if a bit food-heavy), and the comments offer even more ideas to which hotels would do well to pay attention.

One item missing—even from my own comment to Andy’s post—would never have occurred to me until last night. I’m at the Marriott Courtyard in Zurich, Switzerland. I got into bed and prepared to set the clock radio alarm, until I discovered the room had no clock radio! An automated wake-up call system works fine, but what I missed was the glowing LED readout of the time. When you wake up in the middle of the night and it’s dark, you want to know whether you should just get up or go back to bed. The absence of the clock radio made it hard to do that, and by the time I was able to fumble for the button that lights up my watch, I was more awake than I wanted to be (and it was only 3 a.m.).

If you travel a lot, scoot on over to Andy’s blog and add your own requirements to the growing list.

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