Sharing a Hotel Room

This page will explain the pros and cons of sharing a Hotel room with another person.

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PROS - The Positives

1. Cheaper, often one or two people in a room is the same cost.
2. A couple can travel lighter, there is not need for both parties to carry soap, shampoo, deodorant, mosquito net, computer.
3. Share the computer and only one person is carrying a rock.
4. Wash smaller loads of laundry whereby your clothes are cleaner, normally a laundry will have a three kilo minimum.
5. Borrowing items.
6. The person can cut your hair.
7. Sharing experience.
8. Two people trying to find room, tourist attractions.
9. Cooking for two is cheaper.

CONS - The negatives

1. The other person moves items and you cannot find them.
2. Sharing the computer
3. You must agree to watch the same television channels
4. One person wakes up and the other is sleeping.
5. People smell, fart, belch and make noises, some cultures are radically different than others.
6. Sharing the same room key is a problem unless the hotel gives you two, this only happens in expensive hotel.
7. If one person turns on the light, the other one has trouble sleeping.
8. You need double the amount of electrical connections.
9. You need to decide who carries the key to room.
10. You cannot watch Television when the other is sleeping
11. How do you turn on the light without waking the other person.

Sharing a Hotel Room