What is it with hoteliers who will spend millions on a hotel, but still say "Do lights on the cheap!

[Rabrrrrrr]

Hire the most incompetent, ignorant, lackluster uncaring idiots, for the cheapest amount possible, to design the lighting in the hotel room".

Doesn't matter if it's a Motel 6 or a high-end spa/resort, it seems like the one bond that all hotel owners share is a complete and total disdain of being able to have see in the rooms.

Put million dollar chandeliers in the lobby? Fuck yeah!

Spend $50 on an overhead light in the rooms? No fucking way!



Lobby lighting with dimmers and other variability and controls that would make an F-16 pilot roll up in a ball and cry? Absolutely!!


Put a light switch in the room in some sensible way that logically proclaims which light it might turn? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously.

I wonder if there could be good money in becoming a "hotel lighting consultant" to help these hotel builders design lighting in the room that won't drive the occupants to throw the TV out the window.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Rabrrrrrr!

Now, that is a good question.

We don't travel much, but I do remember finding the lighting set-up (especially in the brand-new hotels) very confusing.

We actually called the concierge in one place to come up and explain how to use the feature.

It was complicated, and not at all intuitive. Weird.

:hi:

[Kat45]

2. Maybe their attitude is that all anybody uses to room for is to sleep

so the lighting doesn't matter. :shrug:

[TommyO]

3. I just stayed at the Walt Disney World Resort, at one of the "value resorts"

meaning a room that didn't require a second mortgage, and just inside the door was a switch that turned on the pendant light above the table. The other lights were controlled by well-placed switches, other than the light over the vanity, it was tucked behind the blow dryer which I immediately unplugged and set aside allowing easy access to the switch.

I wish all hotel rooms were as simple as that.

[Flaxbee]

4. I hate overhead lighting

It drives me insane.

Other than that, I agree -- better lighting would be much appreciated.

[Kali]

6. me too!

only acceptable in a kitchen, but still need more

OK for first walking into a dark room/house in order to turn on the other light(s) but sitting in a room with an overhead? :scared:

[KG]

5. the ceiling of your average hotel room is prestressed concrete planking. makes mounting fixtures

problematic.