News and notes from around the interweb:
- My biggest hotel room pet peeve (WaPo)
Leff has been complaining for more than 10 years about one particular hotel design choice: a bed frame that stretches far past the mattress.
He said hotels opt for those types of frames “surprisingly often.” Just ask his shins.
“I know this because I bump into it every single time,” he said. “You’d think that I would get it after the first time in a room. But I will bump it multiple times during the stay.”
Five days after speaking to The Post about the issue, he sent a photo of a large bed frame with the message: “literally just hit my shin on a hotel bed frame.” Five days after that, another photo and message: “I just did it again.”
- “One of the Most Intense Experiences of My Life”: Passenger Suffers Horror Illness Mid-Air on Air Canada Flight” A doctor onboard was escorting a patient and “had a suitcase with meds and medical stuff as well” as what was available on the aircraft.
Had food poisoning mid-flight from London to Vancouver — a huge thank you to Air Canada crew and a hero doctor named Adam
byu/Major_Split inaircanada - United’s San Francisco catering meltdown continues.
- The last step in the recipe for every coach meal:
Good news for the 19:20 to Alicante, the meal this evening is a very hearty Goulash. There's literally everything in it. Chicken, beef and sausage. Sandwiches, crackers and cheese, scratchcards, Duty Free perfume, cuddly toy, raffle tickets… pic.twitter.com/dm53XpHzxJ
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) April 13, 2025
- Respect.
Toronto burger shop called Good Fortune Burger renamed its menu items to sound like office supplies, helping remote workers potentially expense meals through work accounts.
The "basic steel stapler" and "braided HDMI cord” are popular. pic.twitter.com/YOu6as2HnF
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) May 22, 2025
Regarding that last item, the Good Fortune Burger scam is not going to work, at least with major companies. They use services that validate the Merchant Category Codes (MCC’s) listed by their Credit Card supplier for credit card charges. In one incident, a “house of ill repute” in Asia was pretending to be a restaurant and charging extremely high meal costs so that businessmen could receive “services” billed to their company. Didn’t work out so well for them…
He had a choice not to stay at the hotel. and yet has been complaining about it for past decade.
I’m not sure that the issue with stubbing legs, feet and/or toes against the edges of beds at hotels has gotten worse for me, but I have learned the “ouch way” to watch out not only at hotels but also at the homes of friends & family and rental homes.
Assuming the hotel has more than one in the room, I grab a couple bath towels, stuff them around the end. I still hit it, but it’s tolerable.
I can honestly say, I’ve never hit my shin on a hotel bed. I don’t see why anyone would walk that close. Maybe it’s because we have a platform bed in one bedroom, but why are you hugging the bed in the first place?
Right now, I have bruises on both legs from these beds.particularly dangerous in small rooms of millennial hotels.
What I hate are benches at the foot of the bed. At least they can be moved out of the way.
I don’t rent hotel rooms very much anymore but I don’t remember hitting my shins on the corner of the bed before. I sometimes stub my toes due to not paying enough attention to where I am placing my feet.
@Don G – this is many many hotels, and they don’t exactly post on their website that they use bed frames like this
Can anyone shed any light why hotel’s would want the shin killers? I doubt they’re cheaper. Does it add it housekeeping? Is it like a bumberbon a csr?
I’m glad that the doctor was able to help the sick passenger. I was seated next to a young doctor last fall. We got to talking and his life before becoming a doctor was interesting and so was the way he went around getting his education to become a doctor. We had common interests of hiking and backpacking in Arizona. I didn’t catch his full name but he gave me enough clues to find him with a Google search. His face was actually on a streetside billboard advertising his hospital. I sent him a short email about how much I liked our conversation. He seemed to be the type of doctor that most people would like to have.
Had a beautiful room at the (Marriott Autograph Collection) Ambassador Hotel in Wichita a couple of months ago, and the bed frame had understated yet effective padding on the edges.
(Gourmet meals in their restaurant.)
@Gary Leff — Just wear shin guards like the kids do for soccer… problem solved!
No, the biggest hotel problem is the awful, cheap, slippery showers with wonky doors that are ubiquitous in EU hotels. Makes you appreciate American building standards.
Last night flew SFO to AKL. Don’t get me started on the fact they had to replace many of the ovens on the 777 because most were inop. They had 5 hours notice but we left way after midnight because it took a long time.
Catering was appalling even in Polaris. If you had ordered a special meal you were absolutely SOL. The only good thing on the flight was service.
Surprised the hotels haven’t monetized the ‘protruding bed frame corner’ yet ! Could charge the fee not only nightly but for each of the 4 corners (even though I’d imagine the two at the headboard area
are not problematic ! ) ….