hotelroomsecret

Crowne Plaza Hotel, room 693, Geneva, Switzerland

Oyvind — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:41:28 +0000

The Crowne Plaza Hotel Geneva is situated close to the Geneva International Airport. It’s a shiny, modern, Scandinavian design hotel, with everything you need. The hotel’s free shuttle bus is parked 2 meters from the exit door on the airport, and this is where the Lufthansa crews sleep.

Room 693 is in the new wing, overlooking the nearby fields and with a lift straight down to the amazing bar at the ground level. How about those lamps!!

It’s a big, nice room with two big beds, a desk, tv, lots of closet space and a safe. A word about hotel safes: They are too small! Lots of people have 17″ laptops now, and they don’t fit in there. Even 15″ laptops are hard to stuff inside most hotel safes. What’s the point with a safe if you can’t store your most valuable item in there when you’re leaving the room? The minibar is one of those very annoying wholly automated things. So if you have your own food or beverages you want to store cold, and take out bottles from the minibar, they are immidiately added to your bill, even if you put them back in. Lame system.

The bathroom is huge, white and shiny clean. Very nice. Lots of hot water, and both a shower and a big bath tub. And a nice selection of shampoo, body wash, lotion, soap etc. on the desk.

I liked the detail with the window, where you can sit and watch the rain falling on the nearby fields, eating swiss chocolate…

…or look down at the swimming pool 6 floors below.

The verdict on the hotel: Very nice and modern, only some minutes from the airport but still very quiet. It’s near the UN and EBU (walking distance), but expensive. Expect to pay CHF 200 and up.

One bad thing should be noted: Some of the staff were very rude. One waitor in the restaurant yelled at guests, and behaved – well, like an idiot.

But I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it if you can afford the high price.

Best Western Mornington Hotel, room 514, Stockholm, Sweden

Oyvind — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:07:29 +0000

In the middle of Stockholm is Hotel Mornington (Mornington site), in Nybrogatan 53. It’s a nice hotel, with friendly staff, clean rooms and a good breakfast buffet.

Room 514 is a tiny room. But hey, I only needed a place to sleep and clean up. The bed was good, and even if it’s in the middle of the city, I slept well until my mobile got me up.

The bathroom was strange. Brownish colors and when showering, all the floor gets wet. I don’t like showering inside a bathtub, and I think hotels should throw out bathtubs in half of their rooms and just put in a really good shower. Or a steam shower. But – the bathroom was very clean, and lots of hot water.

The room includes a breakfast buffet. Extra points for the selection of cereals, and the sliced fresh fruit to put with them. Made me go several hours. When eating, you are sitting in a library of 4 000 books, and you can borrow books from the library to your room. Just ask. And the owner recommends a new book every week.

Behind this picture, you’ll find a hotelroomsecret. It’s a recommendation for a very good restaurant only about 15 minutes walk from the hotel. Or 3 minutes by taxi. With both fish and meat, and a great wine selection.

If you find the secret, please have a look at it, and leave it where it is. Feel free to comment under if you do.

Trysil resort – bakkebygrenda 6C – Trysil, Norway

Hotelroomsecret — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:11:53 +0000

Trysil is Norway’s largest ski destination with 31 lifts and 65 different slopes. There are also golf courses, horses and boats to rent during the summer.

Close to the Tourist Center on the south side of the mountain the Hut Community “Bakkebygrenda” is situated. Each house has four apartments – two with 14 beds and two with 8 beds. The accomodation can be booked at Trysil Resort.

The secret can be found at Bakkebygrenda 6c – an appartment with three sleeping rooms; one double bed, one double bunk bed and one room with four bunk beds.

The bathroom has heated floor, shower, sauna and a toilet. There also is a separat toilet in the appartment.

The kitchen is fully equipped with dishwasher, microwave oven and a washing machine. The living room has heated floor, a fireplace, TV and DVD player. A radio/CD player is also present.

Some 50 meters from the door you can easily slide into the slope on your skis or snowboard and reach the lift one hundered meters further down.

The secret is wrapped in silvery foil and is hidden somewhere in the kitchen area. The motiv is considered to be very Norwegian… You can leave it here for the next guest, or you can keep it and replace it with something else. But don’t forget to tell us at Hotelroomsecret.com!

Submitted by Hege

Hilton Vienna Am Stadtpark – room 922 – Vienna, Austria

Hotelroomsecret — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:33:36 +0000

In room 922 of the rather bland (but expensive) Vienna Hilton Am Stadtpark, there’s a small piece of paper hidden on top of the mirror. It contains directions for a decent café. If you have to go to Vienna, that is. If you can stay at home (or better still, go someplace else), do it.

Vienna is a merengue-based cream cake, which – like merengue-based cream cakes generally do – looks better than it tastes. And it doesn’t look THAT good, either. More sickening, really, unless you haven’t been eating the last couple of weeks.

Vienna’s tourist council loves to brag about how Vienna was a magnet to creative people (like Mozart). But that’s a lo-o-o-ng time ago. Back when people (like Mozart) liked to stroll about in white powdered wigs with ponytails, looking not entirely unlike their architecture. When the Viennese want to look REALLY sharp, they still don this kind of costume and headwear, making them look like Mozart, only 250 years too late.

The way to show you’re a proper tourist in Vienna, is to get driven around in one of these. they provide a noisy and slow ride, ensuring other tourists plenty of time to observe you being taken for a ride by the locals.

If you’re not queasy by the time you get to the hilton, try taking a long hard look at the cream cake architecture reflected off the mirror wall of the hilton.

The door actually works, though. have to give them that.

With a telephone set beside the toilet bowl, just in case you have no manners at all. the hotel has the standard “we care a LOT about the environment, hang your towels on the rack if they’re not dirty yet” blurb, but with the other hand, they put out miniature phtalate rubber ducks on all bathrooms if you should happen to not be very environmentally minded. Oh, well.

This hotelroomsecret was submitted by AH

Radisson SAS Kristiansand Hotell – room 1714 – Kristiansand, Norway

Hotelroomsecret — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:59:47 +0000

Irma (7) and her mother spent a couple of nights in Radisson SAS Kristiansand Hotell, Norway, attending a children’s film festival.

In a top secret place, Irma hid a little trinket she’d made herself, with an accompanying note saying “You’re free to use the bracelet, but please leave it behind, regards Irma 7 years”

Hatoya Zuthokaku – room 405 – Kyoto, Japan

Oyvind — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:56:03 +0000

Hotel Nagoya is built to look like traditional Japanese hotels, so called “ryokan”. This means sleeping on a mattress (“futon”) on the floor, paper sliding doors, and often a common bath or spa in the hotel.

The room was ok, and the bath/spa was nice. The staff was friendly and spoke English. It’s located only 3 minutes from the JR Railway station. There were a little noise from the street in the morning. We paid about 5 000 Yen per person per night.

Hotel web page: http://www.kyoto-hatoya.co.jp

We have hidden a message behind a picture in room 405…

Here’s the picture:

And here’s where it’s hidden:

If you find it, please leave it there! But do comment on this post if you have found it.

Eden Hotel Wolff – room 353 – Münich, Germany

Eirik — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:44:14 +0000

Room number 353 is a nice room with space enough for a little sofa. The bath features a tub. The room has windows facing the street, so it’s not very quiet, but at the third floor it was not too loud. And, this room is special. It features the first Hotel Room Secret ever!

If you have been so utterly lucky that you have found the secret in Room 353 at the Eden Hotel Wolff in Munich you have come to the right place.

Please leave a comment here!
You are the first person ever to find a Hotel Room Secret.

Visit the restaurant mentioned in the note that you have found. It’s not very expensive and it is very good.

Additional valuable knowledge:
This restaurant has the excellent Cognac Leopold Gourmel Age de Fruit on their menu. Give it a try. It’s a cognac you’ll never forget.

Well, I didn’t find any secrets, but I found this page. What is this?
This is a small project that hasn’t even started yet. It’s about leaving small secrets in Hotel Rooms around the world. It’s about sharing knowledge and culture. It’s about having a little fun on business trips. I will be back with more info later.