Lastly, there is the vanity with a rolling square seat and the window with these awesome shutters that black out ALL DISCERNABLE LIGHT. Seriously, the blackout curtains at the Venetian in Vegas have got NOTHING on these things. Which is nice when I am feeling super tired and sleepy at around 5PM because it is 1AM to my body, and I want a little nap. As an additional perk, they apparently change my towels daily, fluff my pillows and smooth my sheets, and leave me a free bottle of water everyday in addition to the ones already in the fridge. Take that you scheming Vegas hotels with a $5 price tag on a tiny palm sized bottle of water.
Seeing as I'm spending quite a lot of time in my room and its really pretty cool, I figure I should expand on it. You get this thick heavy card as your key and there are lit up sensors outside your door as the lock. Press the card to it and it opens. Nifty but we have those in Amerixa. However, when you walk in there is a small tiled area where you are to put your shoes and the light above is motion activated so it automatically lights up when you walk in. After this little area you step up and through a second door into my room. In the shoe area there a slot in the wall where you place your electronic card. Upon doing so, all the lights and electronics (tv, vanity light, bed lights, bathroom, etc.) will automatically turn on for you so you don't have to fumble in the dark for a needed (The bathroom has two separate switches for the fans and light though just in case). It's the coolest feeling ever to have everything turn on for you as you move forward like it's mind activated :D
With that said, you might be wondering how the hell you turn these lights off if they are so smart they practically have an IQ? Never fear, Asia always has the epitome of convenience (see: chopsticks, and how they are THE best and most effective eating utensil. Ever.) there is a remote control that effectively controls the lights, the television, and the air conditioning... all from the comfort of wherever you are sitting. There is also this high-tech space looking glass panel on the wall that I was convinced was the electronic security on my room or something when I first saw it :D if you press each number, it turns red or green respectively and turns off/on a light or appliance in the room. If you hit the center button, they all turn red/green and everything goes off/on. So if you happen to be too lazy to stick your card in the holder or reach over and grab the remote, you can just touch the glass and control your lights. Like holy moly, can they make it any cooler? :)
Aside from the lights I have a very nice and very big bed. The downside is that the bed is hard as a rock, which is probably because (as my mom pointed out) Koreans sleep on the floor in traditional houses. They must have something else in this rock of a bed too, because despite how hard it is, I haven't woken up with any stiffness, soreness, or hurts anywhere yet. And I am the kind of person who likes CLOUDS for a bed, and failing clouds, a very thick, soft and epically squishy temperpedic mattress pad. So any mattress that is not sinkable into, I usually wake up hurting somewhere. The pillows are very flat too, but they kindly gave me two extras so I just piled them on top of each other and its like a normal pillow lol. I know plenty of people who would love the firmer bed and flatter pillows, but unfortunately they do not include me.
The bathroom is really spacious for a hotel room, and an ASIAN hotel room t that. Space is a prime commodity in Asia, because everything is so tightly packed in. The biggest difference in this bathroom is that there is no shower curtain. Apparently this is normal in some Asian countries. The floor is meant to get all wet, the hotel provided shower slippers to wear in the bathroom (I bought my own yesterday for like 43 cents from Daiso). It was quite a novelty the first time I showered, but its actually really nice. There's no curtain so it feels like the whole bathroom is the shower and it gets steamy so it's like a spa. Strangely liberating.
There is a nice little fridge in here too, and the aforementioned giant flat screen. They provide indoor slippers to wear here (all slippers have the Noblesse Yeoksam Hotel logo on it, no less), but I also bought my own indoor slippers at Daiso. I am germophobic and squeamish enough to spend less than $2 on two new pairs of my own slippers, thanks :)
Lastly, there is the vanity with a rolling square seat and the window with these awesome shutters that black out ALL DISCERNABLE LIGHT. Seriously, the blackout curtains at the Venetian in Vegas have got NOTHING on these things. Which is nice when I am feeling super tired and sleepy at around 5PM because it is 1AM to my body, and I want a little nap. As an additional perk, they apparently change my towels daily, fluff my pillows and smooth my sheets, and leave me a free bottle of water everyday in addition to the ones already in the fridge. Take that you scheming Vegas hotels with a $5 price tag on a tiny palm sized bottle of water.
6 Comments
Peter
10/6/2012 02:09:54 pm
Why are you spending a lot of your time in your room?
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tig
10/7/2012 07:11:48 am
she's getting her money's worth from the Hotel Room...what do you think??
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Candace Sakamoto
10/6/2012 02:35:03 pm
I'm jet lagged still, so I sleep at weird times and wake up at weird times lol.
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Cali
10/7/2012 07:16:58 am
So high tech....Amazing!!! No motion lights? And auto curtains? < :+}
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tigger
10/7/2012 07:19:35 am
I'll bet that Koreans have less back problems because they sleep on hard surfaces. And they eat sitting on the ground....they stay more limber thru-out their life. I'm gonna start doing that too!!!
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9/30/2013 10:11:03 pm
Take that you scheming Vegas hotels with a $5 price tag on a tiny palm sized bottle of water.
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