In my view there are basically 3 kinds of hotels.
Hotels that just don’t get it. The law of supply and demand eventually takes care of them.
Then there are hotels, who get it, or should I say they think they get it. They are the hotels who continually ask themselves: how could we get more money out of each guest by providing more options, loops and hops they must jump through?
– so they have complex internet packages, like lousy internet for free, decent internet at a price – cheaper if you take the full 5 day pass etc.
– or when you walk into the room the television screen is blaring at you suggesting all the films that are on offer – at a price – and it takes you 10 minutes to workout how to turn the dam thing off or find the news.
Then there is the third category .
These are the hotels that ask themselves: What is it like to be on the road, away from home? What does one need, what is annoying, troublesome, irritating? How can we create a service that would make life better, easier, smoother or more fun for our guests and what would we need to charge to make that possible.
From a guest point of view this kind of hotel has a very different feel from the former. The final guest experience is totally different because that basic intent ‘to serve’ comes out in everything they do.
And when you experience that it is such a pleasure because you feel like a welcome guest and not like a ‘wallet on legs’.
you are right