What awaits you in a foreign hotel, or as a service to make unobtrusive?

Each traveler familiar set of leaves, always lying on the table in the room of any foreign hotels. This is a quotation for services not included in the price. These include washing, ironing, room service (room service) and mini-bar. Prices for this whole set in different countries are different. But as a rule, the more "stars" of the hotel, so they are higher.

With the services of a laundress everything is clear: you do not want to pay - clears himself and hung his clothes on than not getting - radiators-no, instead of them air conditioned. It is true that in some hotels in the bathrooms have a special rope that is stretched over the bath. Usually it happens in the hotels located in seaside resorts or in hotels with swimming pool, because in fact designed not to shorts and socks, and for bathing suits and swimming trunks.

Pass the same laundry there, ironing is - is simple enough. Enough crosses in the blank note anything that you wish to have laundered (ironed), open the cupboard, took out a special package, and together with the form to put stuff there. Care at breakfast, leave in a conspicuous place. If you are in urgent need of washing, then on the form to make an appropriate note. And keep in mind that it will cost 50% more expensive. Term also implies that things will bring you through the day. However, very often, and put in an ordinary washing things bring on the same day. And the extra money for it do not take.

Enjoy a mini-bar, too easy. First, learn the price - maybe then you do not want to open it. But even if you just want to climb back out of curiosity, like a mini-bar or looked - electronic, with the lock (key is usually nearby), glued a piece of paper (so that if vskroesh - will be immediately noticeable), no financial meltdown, you do not face - for the money do not take on Browse. If you are able to move, it is easier to go down (up) in a bar. All the same drinks, but cheaper offers out there. And the choice at the bar anymore. After the mini-bar drinks are focused only "essentials": gin, vodka, cognac, martini or Campari, beer, whiskey, champagne, mineral water, juice, cola and other consumer goods. In addition, small portions. As an appetizer for all drinks - a couple bags of nuts.

There are also some unusual drinks that you will not find in any bar or in the stores. For example, Elevator, and Reanimator. You guessed it, really, it's "pohmelitelnoe.

As for juices, standing in the mini-bar, they are usually not the best, always with preservatives. And peanuts are not the freshest.

Mini-bar can be used as a night refrigerator, dumping the contents of it and filling its beer (juice). Night, because if the day the maid will find that some bottles of it are laid out (even if they are neatly displayed in a row in front of a bar), then all temporary withdrawal will take the pencil. And then, at discharge and the accompanying calculation is useless to argue and prove that you are not "ponadkusyvali. No refund shall not take it.

For the same reason you can not, after drinking a Coke in the morning to the bank and replace it with exactly the same in the evening, brought from the store. It is believed that the hotel itself in a position to replenish expended supplies and services residents do not need it. And, indeed, precisely those containers that you have devastated the day, you the next morning, after returning from lunch, re-discover the full.

Typical tourists case: feast lasted past midnight, all brought with them vodka drunk, bar, like a restaurant, now closed, but sleep is not desirable. Assume the role of "messenger", trusyaschego with a string bag in a strange town convenience store, want to except that the madman. There are two ways out of this situation: gut the mini-bar, or order something in the room. Here one should bear in mind one thing: drink from the minibar is so expensive not only because they are designed for Leon to go to the bar, but also because they are presented exclusively in small packages. Therefore, although the ordering has to be reconciled in a room with extra charge for the service, you can buy a liter bottle or pollitrovuyu while still in the range of savings. But on the whole bottle. If you order ten servings of whiskey, then they stand more than ten bottles from the minibar.

True, room-service is not at all hotels round the clock, but usually in four-and five-star hotels all the more it is as follows - the day after all the majority prefers restaurants. But at night it is indispensable - a snack in the room you can order a few more substantial than last year's nuts. Just do not forget to examine the menu lying in the room. The prices of all dishes are significantly different from the prices of similar dishes in a restaurant. Not for the better.

Use of television, of course, free. Number of channels varies by country and star-hotel. But in any case before the turn on the TV, learn which lies next to the prospectus. Because, as a rule, in addition to the free channels you open access to both locally-paid cable TV. For which a mandatory broadcast erotic films. There are pay channels and adventure strips.

On pay channels is always given some free time (from minutes up to three) to the guest decided whether he wants to watch a movie on and off, respectively, to pay for it.

System is two. The first, more humane, is as follows. Include pay channel, you can put the time to watch it for free. Then, listening is disabled. If you want to look at the proposed movie, you need to dial the phone number specified in the prospectus and confirm their willingness to pay "the movie is not for everyone." In the second, less humane, no no warning. Gape, had not time off - pay. And because the cost of telenochi not depends on whether it lasted for five minutes or five hours, would pay the full fare, which is an average of 20 U.S. dollars.

By the way, if the pay channels a few, do not think that, by switching them in such a way that no one does not linger for more than three consecutive minutes, you can enjoy a full hour erotic gift. These wise men, apparently, a lot. Therefore, the dollar is recorded at their expense.

In the rooms of some hotels are still safe (usually in five-and four-star). Lockers may be electronic and may be mechanical: either with the combination locks, or locked with a key. Pay safe or not, you should inquire at reception. No general rule associated with the category of hotel, this issue does not exist. And even in different hotels of one system may be different.

Almost all the hotels are safe in reception. Again - sometimes paid, sometimes not, at the discretion of management. This is either a room like the one in which value is stored in the bank, then the client is issued a key and it is passed into this room, a sealed box, which the customer enters on the presentation of a receipt or a key from him. And if you're in a drawer keep the money they invested in a special envelope in which you signs.

Is not recommended to forget the code, and lose the key. If the safe will break, then for the services of hotel "safecracker" to you not to take anything, but it may be asked to pay the cost of the safe. Good luck to all travelers and stay alert!