On the Perils of Luxury Hotel Rooms

Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 09.25.08 | 10:13 AM ET

In his latest column, San Francisco Chronicle travel editor John Flinn dares to ask: What is the point of those deluxe shower nozzles, high-end lighting systems and cutting-edge entertainment consoles, if you can never get them to work right? “The luxury hotel room you pay $400 and up to rent for 19 hours is marketed as an oasis of comfort and relaxation,” he writes. “But far too many of them turn out to be, for me anyway, chambers of annoyance and irritation.”