Where you stay can make or break your holiday. Here are the red flags and pitfalls to look for when booking a hotel
A few years ago, a friend of mine asked for advice on where to go on her honeymoon. I duly gave her a list of my favourite hotels from across the world: Baros in the Maldives, Likuliku Lagoon in Fiji, Vahine Island in French Polynesia, Montpelier in St Kitts & Nevis among a few others.
“Oh my god,” she said as she Googled my list. “You’ve stayed in some stunning hotels.”
She’s right, but I’ve stayed in some ungodly ones as well, from a roach-infested room in Sri Lanka to a Fiji campsite with toads in the bathroom (yes, one did land on my foot in the dark one night). I have cried, despaired and quietly raged on holiday because of poor accommodation.
Red flags and Pitfalls when booking a hotel
Thankfully, after a decade of travel across 70 countries and seven continents, I have finessed a list of red flags and pitfalls to look for when booking a hotel. I still get things wrong on occasion, but more often than not, this checklist serves me well.
1. Narrowing your search to hotels
I was a luxury-hotel kind of girl until I met Peter who is far more adventurous when it comes to travel. His willingness to experiment gave me some of my most memorable travel experiences: staying in a beach fale in Samoa, a cave hotel in Cappadocia, a yurt in the English countryside, a desert camp in Djibouti, a monastery in Myanmar and a hobbit house in Ecuador among others.
Narrowing your search to hotels excludes dozens of potentially extraordinary experiences. Instead, use a platform like cozycozy to view all available accommodation in a single search.
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2. A beach hotel with no sea view
One red flag to look out for when booking a room at a beach resort is anything with “Pool View” or “Garden View” in the description. This usually means that you won’t have a sea view!
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