15 Hotel Hacks You Really Need To Know Before Your Next Trip

Summer is here and all must be busy gearing up for summer vacations, right? While everybody's travel preferences might differ, there is one factor which all agrees upon - a really good hotel experience is the binding factor for a great trip!

But, for this do really any individual have to stay at Taj Vivanta or Oberoi's, to get the 'whole experience' happen? It is generally in people's psyche that a great hotel has to be really expensive or sophisticated sort, but then that is not really true. There is denying the fact that these are really good ones, offering impeccable hospitality experience to their patrons, but one can always experience the same in a budget-friendly hotel, but provided the resources are used smartly! One needs to follow the smart travel and hotel hacks, in order to maximise the potential of the humble inn, where the individual has made plans to spend the better part of his vacation. A list has been compiled comprising a handful of hacks, so that if they are looking forward to a comfortable experience on a shoe-string budget, one should certainly keep these handy:

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1. The hotel door opener acts as a bottle-opener!

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You have planned a special night with your friends and associates, and you are unable to hold of a bottle opener, to uncork a champagne, or a beer! But the, as every problem has a solution behind it (in literal sense), there is solution for it also. It is better to utilise the door ledge, and keep party-fever alive.

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2. A contact lens case is the perfect 'little' aid for this solution. Get hold of this!

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By any chance, if one happens to be going out for a day or two, and have to carry certain makeup products, then they can vouch upon the contact lens case. Yes! It is the perfect 'little' aid for this solution. These type of cases will let carry the items/products, minus any spillage. Moreover, they will not occupy much space in the luggage. This hack works best with products like foundation or concealer.

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3. A paper cup can do the magic, while just stabbing toothbrush inside it!

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Travelling on a fixed budget, but no ready to compromise on health and hygiene, then this hack is an ideal one. If the bathroom of the hotel, which one is staying does not cater for any toothbrush stand, then simply put upside down a paper cup on the bathroom counter, and create groove for the toothbrush by stabbing it inside.

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4. Attaching the car keys with the charger, will never let forget the charger behind!

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This is quite common amongst all, and leaving the charger behind, while hurrying out the hotel room is no uncommon either. This realisation hits back, once the individual is about to upload the selfie, and the phone's battery drains out! But prevention can be always done. By just attaching the car keys or house keys to the charger cord, will never let any 'forgettable' individual to forget the same, before leaving the hotel room.

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5. Interested in grabbing a breakfast grub, while leaving the gadgets on charge? Here is a well-designed hack!

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Nowadays, maximum hotel rooms has the requirement of the card key to power the electrical points and appliances. But one has to deposit the card key, always when leaving the hotel room. But then, if that individual wants to keep his camera or additional gadgets back in the room for charging, he can stuff-in the key slot with a cardboard piece of the similar girth. It ought to prevent the electricity from getting cut-off, while he is out of his hotel room.

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6. Make the individual's personal vanity, as there is dearth of space to get ready

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A date night planned out with the partner, but there is no space in the room to get dressed, or to do make-up! Then the wisest way is to utilise the ironing board, as an extended counter-space, to create one's make-shift vanity! Voila!

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7. Wrapping the remote with a plastic liner from the ice bucket, might make it germ-free.

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If the individual is a real hygiene freak and do not want to touch the hotel room remote (thinking it to be 'germy'), then it is always better to wrap the same with a plastic liner, taken from the ice bucket.

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8. No nightstand in the hotel room? Simply fold the bed-sheets

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If any individual wants to stuff in things, but the hotel room does not have any night stand, then simply the bed-sheet has to be folded, in order to stuff-in the itineraries. Isn't it a great idea?

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9. A regular pill-box is a great way to accommodate neckpieces and bracelets, minus getting them tangled!

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Who does not want to don the lovely neckpieces or bracelets they have, while on a vacation. And to help them by remaining tangle-free, it is advised to carry them in a regular medicine box. This will aid a person to have a stress-free time de-tangling the same, before hitting out the city!

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10. Hotel room curtains do not close at one go

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Hangers having clips will be a saviour then Want to get hold of a short nap, or watch TV, and the sun-light is not letting one do so, and so do the hotel room curtains. Hence, if the hotel room closet has those hangers with clips, it can come to a great innovative aid. The curtain can be clipped with the clips of the hangers.

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11. Carrying cash, but nowhere to stash them! A Chap-stick can always do the trick

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Most of the vacationers have the extra emergency cash, while on a holiday. But to keep it somewhere safe, is a big question! An empty tube of chap-stick, can transform into the storage space. And, it is always trusted that no thug would be forcing the individual to hand over the chap-stick!

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12. Want to pack something to keep it wrinkle-free? How about this trick!

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Going on a vacation and packing certain things that wrinkles definitely? Alright, a plastic file folder acts as an inexpensive and actual mode to care for those things.

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13. One adapter - solves all electrical charging related issues

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If an individual is traveling all over the world, as an alternative of carrying manifold power adapters for the entire electronics gadgets, he can just carry one adapter - and a power-strip. Plug it in, anywhere one is moving, and yes, the work is getting done!

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14. No Mini-fridge in Your Room? Use the Sink of Your Bathroom to Chill Your Drinks

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Desire of having a cold drink or a chilled beer in one's room, but the mini-fridge is not there, then this is what should be done: Take hold of some ice, and block up the bathroom sink with it, and place the drinks in them. Then enjoy a cold beer, in the comfort of the room, at no extra cost!

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15. A crushed soda-can or a plastic bag can entertain one, in watching a movie on a long plane ride

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If an individual in travelling a long distance flight, and the flight unfortunately does not have any facility of TV, then to make the plane ride smooth, a crushed soda-can get transformed into a decent impromptu phone stand. Or else, the phone can be put inside a transparent plastic bag and hang it from the seat in front of him. Thrilling!

Aren't these travel hacks great? Now you can guarantee a stress-free travel experience for yourself, even on a shoestring budget! So, doesn't these travel hacks seem to be great and quite hassle-free and innovative? Now, one can have a stress-free traveling experience, even on a fixed and shoe-string budget! One should try these hacks and tricks, and suggest others.

Safe and sound trip, my friends!

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