Hotels offer a change of scenery on business trips and travel. Different hotels offer us a sense of coziness, exclusivity, or minimalism. Visiting them leaves us with varying sensations – cave-like, simple, luxurious, relaxing, and comfortable.

But there’s one crucial detail to every hotel: the thin reception partition that separates the infrastructure from the guest area, and the guests from the staff. Excess and luxury, on the one hand, border on minimalism and often workaday shabbyness, on the other. And comfort and relaxation, on the one hand, border on the hard, routine, hourly toil, on the other.

I like hotels from both perspectives – and I want to share my opinion on this matter with you.