Sinful Travelers Confess Their Deepest Darkest & Downright Bizarre Secrets 0comments
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First up in the confession booth is Gabe Saglie Senior Editor and “Travel Guru” at Travelzoo.com who revealed to me that “When it comes to hotels I often check-out with 2 things: amenities ...
First up in the confession booth is Gabe Saglie Senior Editor and “Travel Guru” at Travelzoo.com who revealed to me that “When it comes to hotels I often check-out with 2 things: amenities and stationary. Amenities are something hotels recognize with and even advertise especially the upscale hotels. So this started years ago when my traveling truly began to pick up and I found myself forgetting where I’d stayed. Those little shampoo and shower gel bottles were miniature mementos of stays at great hotels. Somewhere along the way I started passing them on to my mom who lives in L.A. except travels little (by comparison) love souvenirs of cities I’d visited. Today she has hundreds and hundreds of amenities from cool hotels all through the world. She gets them faster than she can use them and files them away in neatly organized cabinets.”
Saglie continued “As for the stationary I get a kick from mailing letters or bills inside motel envelopes. I think it adds a sense of intrigue for the person opening it on the other end. Plus I haven’t had to purchase envelopes in year.I also figure the hotels get some nice PR out of it so it’s a win-win no?”
Lonely Planet’s Andy Murdock also feels the need to snatch hotel items when he travel. Murdock confessed “I like to swipe hotel room pens – I’m always in need of a pen and often seem to lose or forget them plus I like finding them in a drawer years later and remembering where the pen and I first met. I think you can tell a lot about a hotel by the pen they provide: some hotels put a lot of thought into it and pick out a pen that writes well has an interesting design and suits the hotel’s seem and feel; others don’t give it a moment’s thought and just buy thousands of ultra cheapo ballpoints that aren’t worth taking with you. The pencil hotels are the most mysterious to me since they invariably fail to supply a pencil sharpener. Be wary of pencil hotels.”
Sean O’Neill Senior Editor for Budget Travel Magazine felt compelled to express to me that while he may be a world traveler there is just one kind of vacation he has avoided. “I’ve never taken an ocean cruise!” he exclaimed. “I feel silly about having left this off my trip to-do list. For millions it’s an essential experience. But I’ve been turned off the idea ever since I read a Harper’s thesis by David Foster Wallace in which he ridiculed cruise-going. Sometimes I worry that I’m missing out. But I never worry enough to actually do anything about it.”
I must admit that I as well have not gone cruising on vacation. Just not my thing. Next up is another troubled traveler that just needs to get something off her chest. I must warn you though that confession is a tad bit on the R-rated side.
Adena Harford who runs the blog at tripwolf.com told me that “I kind of got into not using toilet paper in India.” I asked her to please interpre that exactly that meant. She continued “Let’s see – well first of all we noticed only the tourists stop at little stand to buy toilet paper – and that there is a faucet and a bucket in every bathroom stall. I was secondly inspired by Jack Kerouac’s idea that most (western) people think they are so clean but they are actuall7b4y going round with dirty assholes because we only wipe them with paper. So well I got into using the water and faucet and truly felt like I was cleaner than usual – we all referred to it as ‘going local.’ Like have you ‘gone local’ yet? Sorry if this story was a little TMI.”
Hmm…
Moving right along we have flight attendant extraordinaire and travel blogger Heather Poole. Heather once told me on Twitter that she does in fact gather hotel “Do Not Disturb” signs but her confession today was about someone else…or so she says. “I once knew a flight attendant who washed her panty hose in the hotel room coffee pot. NAST-AY!”
Where Ive Been’s Katy who is both the Community Manager and #traveltuesday initiator on Twitter shockingly told me “Alright my travel confession is…I always remove my shoes on flights. Even when I have EXTRA smelly feet. Hee hee hee!” She also confessed that as a young traveler she used to steal the blankets on long transatlantic flights. But in Katy’s defense she expressed ” Come on I was 10 years old!”
Monica Wong who runs the travel blog “A Pair of Panties & Boxers” confessed to me that ” When I was studying abroad in Shanghai I took a weekend trip to Hangzhou. I initially planned to stay for one night but I fell in love with the sunset at the West Lake. I wanted to see it again so my boyfriend and I stayed an supplementary night. The only problem was we only brought one change of clothes. Which meant we only had one pair of underwear. We had to wear it twice. Inside out of course. That incident gave birth to the name of my blog.”
Geez these confessions are just getting dirtier and dirtier. For shame you travel experts…for shame indeed! Stay tuned for more sins revealed right here in my confessional.
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