I judge a hotel on its fulfilment of a few basic conditions:

• Helpful staff.
• Free wi-fi.
• A fridge uncluttered with overpriced mini-bar stuff.
• Separate waste bins in the bedroom and the bathroom.
• Separate, decent-sized bars of soap for the basin and the shower.
• A shower that I can stand under without using one of my hands to hold it up.

I recently stayed at a hotel that failed dismally on the last of these. Luckily I always travel with a coat-hanger made of very thin wire. This is how I had to shape it to hook the shower head on the top rail of the shower screen:

Do you have items that you carry around to rectify hotels’ deficiencies?