- Yelloww Productions presents
The First 11 Things You Should Do
When You Check Into Any Hotel Room.
I'm Chris, this is Topher.
We are YouTube's number one human/panda traveling duo
and with over a thousand nights in hotels,
we're going to tell you the first 11 things
we do when we check-in to any hotel room.
We're at the Hilton Hawaiian Village today
which is why Topher is wearing this lei here, aloha.
Here we're going to be going through
our checklist of 11 things.
The first thing we do when we come into a hotel room
is a general cleanliness check.
How clean does it look? Does the carpet look clean?
Do the beds look clean? In addition to the beds
look clean, well you should flip the sheets
to make sure there's nothing under the sheets,
make sure there's no bedbugs,
make sure there's no black spots,
flip under the pillows, flip under everywhere.
The one time we stayed at a hotel in Maui
and we found a gecko when we flipped the sheets.
You never know what you'll find under there.
Another cleanliness spot to check
is, of course, the bathroom and the spot in the bathroom
that we always check to see how well cleaned it is
is the bathtub, the dreaded bathtub.
Nobody wants hair from somebody else in the bathtub.
How does the toilet look?
How does the floor around the toilet look?
How does the sink look?
If that all looks clean, then move on to item number two.
The second thing to do when you check
into a hotel room is a safety check.
Do the safety features work?
In particular, does the door lock work?
When the door closes, does it latch?
Does this work so that we try to open it,
does it actually stop it?
Can you read Japanese instructions?
Well, this is pretty simple, I guess we don't need
to read the Japanese instructions.
If you need to use the safe, does the room have a safe?
Does the safe work? If the room has a balcony,
does the balcony lock and I guess this room's
on the 29th floor, so it's not a big deal,
but if you're on like a ground floor
facing a parking lot, you'd want to make sure that works.
And if you're staying in a hotel in Hawaii,
you should definitely admire the view.
Wow.
The third thing to do when you check into your hotel room
is to make sure everything works that you're going to use.
Does the television work if you watch the TV?
Do the lights work? Does the power work?
Do you know how to turn on the lights?
But the most important thing and
the thing that I do religiously is
make sure the air conditioner works.
Nothing is worse than being in a room
with air conditioning or heat that doesn't work,
only figuring that out when you're about ready to go to bed
and all the maintenance people are gone for the night.
Check that right now. If it doesn't work,
call the front desk and have them come up
and fix your air conditioning.
The fourth thing to do is a general noise check.
How noisy is the room?
Are you on a noisy part of the hotel?
Are you on a quiet street?
Luckily my room here is pretty quiet.
There's another big building back there.
Twenty-nine floors up, there's the beach.
But always inside when I check-in,
the first thing I do at the check-in desk
is ask for a quiet room and so, you know,
I look at the room map when I walk in
to see how close am I to the elevator.
How close is it to the ice machine?
Are there any adjoining doors?
Is there anything that's going to disturb my sleep?
And by the way, this isn't just about hearing things.
One time I was in a hotel that was
next to the elevator shaft
and I could actually feel the elevator in my room
about every 30 seconds as it went up and down.
So if anything about your room- too noisy, too vibratey-
go down to the front desk and say that you want another one.
Most hotels are happy to oblige a room change,
so don't be stuck with a room that you can't sleep in.
The fifth thing to do: check the clock.
A: does the clock have the right time?
And B-:is the alarm not set from a previous guest?
This one was set to 4:45 in the morning.
Not the time I want to wake up.
Make sure you turn off any alarms set by previous guests.
Number six- do a quick unpack of your suitcase.
Unpack anything that you're going to need
for the next morning.
Make sure you have socks, underwear, shirts, a belt,
anything you're going to need for tomorrow morning
that you might not be able to get in the morning
because shops are closed, make sure you check that out now.
Toothpaste, toiletries, all that sort of stuff.
Seventh thing to do when you check into your hotel room,
if you like ice, is to figure out the ice situation.
Is the ice something like here where there's an ice bucket
and you can go and get it or is the ice something
you have to call for and request them to bring you ice?
If you like ice, you want to know what you have to do
because in the next step, if there's anything that we need,
we're going to call the front desk
for toiletries and all that sort of stuff
and that'd be a good time to call for ice
if it's one of those hotels.
The eighth thing to do when you check-in your hotel,
well I just gave it away, but it's to check and see
if there's anything extra you need
from the hotel front desk.
Do you need extra sheets? Do you need extra pillows?
Do you need a phone charger? Did you forget something?
One of the ones that's also really important
is to check the bathroom stock of towels.
Does the bathroom have enough towels?
Does the bathroom have enough soap?
Does the bathroom have enough Kleenex tissue?
This is one where I always kind of do
like a little weight check of this
and sometimes I take this off to see what's down there
to make sure there's more than
just one piece of Kleenex in there.
And if anything's missing, call the front desk,
tell them you need it, they'll bring it up for you.
The ninth thing to do when you check into your hotel room
is after you've got your stuff that you asked for,
or if you don't need any stuff,
take that Do Not Disturb sign from the inside of the door
and put it on the outside of your door.
If you do decide to sleep in tomorrow morning,
you will appreciate not being woken up
by the housekeeping knock.
Just make sure that when you do leave your room
the next day for the day and you want it cleaned,
you take this sign off.
The tenth thing to do when you check into your hotel room
is rearrange things to your liking.
For example, I don't need all these things here
on the nightstand, I typically take these things
on the nightstand and toss them in a drawer
or they just get in my way.
Sometimes I move around some of the furniture for my liking.
One thing I almost always do too,
because Topher's a neat freak I'm going to blame it him,
but is typically put a bath towel down on the desk chair
because I sort of, you know, like I mean, this desk chair,
there's some, it's just like discolored
and it doesn't look at that lovely
and so Topher, everybody asks how he stays so clean,
we like to keep him so he gets a nice, clean place to sit.
And the eleventh and final thing to do
when you check-in your hotel room
is do a video review and post it up onto YouTube.
If you're curious of seeing a video review
for the Hilton Hawaiian Village,
well I've got one of those.
Link's down in the description
or you'll find a link right up here
that you can click too. Check that out.
Well we hope you enjoyed this video
and we'll see you over there
in the Hilton Hawaiian Village review.
Alright, til next time, aloha!