Comments on: When hotels start showing off too much: A 23 light saga. http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2010/02/01/when-hotels-start-showing-off-too-much-a-23-light-saga/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Travelling beyond the gushing hyperbole Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:13:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicolas De Corte http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2010/02/01/when-hotels-start-showing-off-too-much-a-23-light-saga/comment-page-1/#comment-2043 Nicolas De Corte Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:38:52 +0000 http://www.grumpytraveller.com/?p=507#comment-2043 Sometimes it must be difficult to drag a line between amusing and annoying... I have quite a high threshold of annoying features and I don’t mind the occasional couple of light switches. As long as the don’t put the remote on top of the TV. Sometimes it must be difficult to drag a line between amusing and annoying…
I have quite a high threshold of annoying features and I don’t mind the occasional couple of light switches. As long as the don’t put the remote on top of the TV.

]]> By: David Atkinson http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2010/02/01/when-hotels-start-showing-off-too-much-a-23-light-saga/comment-page-1/#comment-1962 David Atkinson Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:26:59 +0000 http://www.grumpytraveller.com/?p=507#comment-1962 Me too. The universal off switch is a wonderful invention. Some hotels try just too hard ... a topic I've been looking at recently too, albeit in a different location: http://nowhitthenorth.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/when-hilton-gets-it-right-and-wrong/ Me too. The universal off switch is a wonderful invention. Some hotels try just too hard … a topic I’ve been looking at recently too, albeit in a different location: http://nowhitthenorth.wordpres.....and-wrong/

]]> By: Matthew Teller http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2010/02/01/when-hotels-start-showing-off-too-much-a-23-light-saga/comment-page-1/#comment-1960 Matthew Teller Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:13:51 +0000 http://www.grumpytraveller.com/?p=507#comment-1960 Bugbear of yours? Excuse me, Mr Grumpy, it's a bugbear of MINE and has been for much longer than your bugbear could ever begin to dream about. 'The Address Downtown Burj Dubai' (which I assume has now been renamed and rebranded as 'The Address Downtown Burj Khalifa, Dubai') is another perpetrator of Stupid Light Systems: they had the ingenious system of flick a switch - actually, push a switch, since they were all rocker-switches, so you couldn't even tell whether they were on or off - to turn one light off, whereupon another light came on. In the end, after quarter of an hour of cursing and traipsing round the room, I took the keycard out. Bloody five-star hotels. They're rubbish, all of them. Bugbear of yours? Excuse me, Mr Grumpy, it’s a bugbear of MINE and has been for much longer than your bugbear could ever begin to dream about.

‘The Address Downtown Burj Dubai’ (which I assume has now been renamed and rebranded as ‘The Address Downtown Burj Khalifa, Dubai’) is another perpetrator of Stupid Light Systems: they had the ingenious system of flick a switch – actually, push a switch, since they were all rocker-switches, so you couldn’t even tell whether they were on or off – to turn one light off, whereupon another light came on. In the end, after quarter of an hour of cursing and traipsing round the room, I took the keycard out. Bloody five-star hotels. They’re rubbish, all of them.

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