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Gotta Hate That Hotel Bacon

If your job takes you on the road often, you'll probably relate well to the gripes that UK Times business travel editor Mark Frary summarised this week with his Top Ten Hotel Hates. Problems like the spreading minibar (like a super-expensive bottle of water that's sitting next to the bed but then has to be paid for), rip-off parking and the slow speed of hotel laundry services all make the list. Something that might not make your personal is his strong dislike of hotel bacon:

For me, a good bacon sandwich on white bread with lashings of HP is the only antidote to conference or client meeting-induced hangovers. So why can't most hotels get it right?

Surely ordering something else (we always find a big serve of fries helps a hangover) would solve this problem at least. Mark invited readers to add their own gripes, and some of these we definitely relate to:

I hate those horrid plastic shower curtains - they wrap themselves around you like some kind of surgical second skin and the only way of preventing it is to place them outside the bath where the water runs down them, turning the room into a footbath!

And finally, strange or annyoing noises also rated highly, like room fridges that hum so loudly nobody can sleep--one reader said he routinely unplugs them, which is fine if you don't need a cold drink. Which apparently most Times readers don't, as they all complained that minibar drinks were exorbitantly overpriced. Nobody else complained aout the bacon, though.

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