Hotels Bring Out Our Wild Side
What is it with us that when we go to a hotel , the wild side sometimes comes out? I know when I've traveled I've sampled the mini bar (3 oz. of peanuts for $6?), thrown towels on the floor, slopped up the sink with makeup and contact lens solution, even sat in a wet bathing suit on the bed. Wild animal, aren't I? But writing at The New York Times today, Julie Lasky says when we check in, we often act out. I'm not talking about the celebrities who trash their rooms, just normal everyday people like us. But something seems to happen when we walk into a hotel, something seems to give us permission to be slobs, or do things we'd never do at home. "Ever since the birth of the modern hotel in the early 19th century as a place where ordinary people were surrounded by aristocratic trappings, the idea was that you could enter 'a life that isn’t one that you’re a part of,'” Ilse Crawford, the original designer of Soho House New York, tells Lasky. “It’s ...