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When we stay at a hotel, the staff goes out of their way to make us feel at home. However, they do not always succeed in this.

website decided to reveal some facts that hotel workers prefer to hide from their clients.

• It is worth keeping in mind that the bedspreads in hotel rooms are never changed.
• Drink glasses are not always washed. The same goes for toothbrush cups in the bathroom.
• The TV remote is one of the dirtiest things in the room.
• The carpet in hotels is only vacuumed and disinfected extremely rarely. At best, once a year. Therefore, under no circumstances should you walk on it barefoot.

• When checking in, it makes sense to ask what additional services are already included in the price. This could be visiting the pool, gym, using the minibar or internet in the room. The administrator may well forget to tell you such information, so it’s better to ask.
• Not everyone knows that hotels provide separate towels that can be used for going to the pool or the beach. There is no need to take them from your room. Towels can be obtained at the reception or in other special places. You can always check with the administrator where exactly.
• As for the towels in the bathroom, they may never be changed until you throw them on the floor.

• Hotels in some countries often do not have a 13th floor (UK, USA). This is due to the fear of this number. In Asian cultures there is no 4th floor. The fact is that the pronunciation of the hieroglyph denoting the number “4” resembles the word “death”.
• It is worth noting that guests from booking sites receive a special, very sensitive attitude from the staff. This is because these people rate the service.
• Hotel descriptions often exaggerate the proximity to the beach and other attractive places. To do this, the distance is indicated not in meters, but in minutes. For example, 10 minutes to the sea, which actually turns out to be not so close.
• In some countries you will have to pay tourist tax for accommodation, which is either immediately included in the room price or taken separately. For example, in Venice, when staying in a 5-star hotel, you will have to pay 5 euros per person per day.

Tourist tax in Venice is approximately 5 euros per day

• If breakfast is included in the room rate, and you are leaving early in the morning for an excursion, you can ask the hotel staff to prepare lunch boxes for you on the road. This should be taken care of in advance, preferably the night before.
• In the restaurants of many hotels, the food left over after preparing dishes is not thrown away, but is made into other, lesser quality ones. For example, fish scraps can be used to make the soup of the day.
• It is safer to order drinks without ice at the hotel bar. The quality of the water from which it is made leaves much to be desired in some countries.

• Not everyone knows what is allowed to be taken from the room and what will be considered theft. Allowed: bath amenities (shampoo, conditioner, body cream, soap), disposable slippers, pens and notebooks with a company logo. Other items are the property of the hotel. If you really like a robe or towel, there are special stores where you can buy them.
• Dry cleaning services in hotels are not always of a high level of quality, and prices are always inflated. If you look for a laundromat in the hotel area, you can wash things 2-3 times cheaper.
• The price of the same room may differ from one source to another, so before booking it is worth calling the hotel directly and asking if they have special offers, for example weekend tariffs. This way you can save up to 20% of the cost of living.

Summer has not gone well this year, and you can completely forget about swimming. The more you want to escape to the south, to the sea and sun. Most of us are sure that sea ​​water and air are very useful. But not everyone knows how, when and to whom they are especially useful.

Swimming in sea water is very good for health. This is a fact!

Swimming in sea water:
enriches the body with oxygen and minerals. Sea water contains about 90 elements necessary for our body (iodine, calcium, potassium, silicon, sodium, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, iron, nickel, copper, arsenic, oxygen, nitrogen, neon, helium and many other elements, etc.) It is especially useful iodine – it activates brain function and normalizes thyroid function.
improves the functioning of blood vessels and blood circulation, lowers blood pressure and normalizes heart rate
increases vitality, has a hardening effect, strengthens the immune system
cleanses the skin, can help with eczema, psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
helps remove toxins from the body

...and not only for health, but also for beauty! This is also a fact

Intense swimming in sea water actively promotes weight loss and gives a light anti-cellulite massage effect. Sea water, rich in microelements, will replace both hair masks and nail baths - provided that you protect your hair from the sun.

Sea air is most useful after a storm. And that's a fact

The air near the sea after a storm is especially rich in oxygen and ozone and richly saturated with mineral salts and phytoncides of seaweed. This air is especially useful for respiratory diseases, and also moisturizes the skin and increases its elasticity.

The saltier the sea water, the healthier it is. Fact!

How saltier water in the sea, the higher the concentration of nutrients in it and the more intensely they are absorbed by the body.

Seaside holidays are beneficial for everyone without exception - but this is already a myth

It would seem that such a number of advantages should make a trip to the sea useful for everyone without exception. But, alas, there are exceptions. The sea and sun can be dangerous for patients with heart disease, cancer patients, severe hypertension, people suffering from allergies to iodine, hyperfunction of the thyroid gland, as well as some skin and fungal diseases. If you are a regular patient of any doctor, you should consult with him whether the sea and hot climate will harm you.

The warmer the sea water, the more beneficial it is. And it's a myth

Warm water is preferable for a long and comfortable bath, especially for children. But the greatest health benefits come from water at a temperature of 20-24 degrees. Firstly, in such water you have to move intensively, which enhances its healing effect. Secondly, in sea water warmer than 24 degrees, pathogenic microorganisms actively multiply, so rinsing the nasopharynx with such water is no longer recommended.

It is better to swim in pools with sea water or take baths with sea salt than in a dirty sea with crowds of people and jellyfish. This is also a myth

Sea water extracted from the natural environment retains its beneficial properties for no more than 24 hours. Therefore, swimming in a pool with sea water can be equated in effectiveness to swimming in the sea only if the water in the pool is completely changed every day and is not chlorinated, killing many beneficial properties. And if you do not chlorinate the pool, then microbes will quickly multiply in a closed environment.
It only makes sense to take baths with sea salt at home, for lack of anything better - after all, tap water with the addition of sea salt correlates with natural sea water in about the same way as juice reconstituted from concentrate correlates with freshly squeezed juice.

Swim in the sea - stock up on health and beauty!

Jennifer Roberts, 23, was reading the thriller “The Dead Zone” at the campground. A thunderstorm came, lightning struck Jennifer's tent, tore off the roof and tore the 291-page book to shreds. Jennifer was unconscious for an hour, but otherwise miraculously unharmed. The cover of the novel depicted a man dying from a lightning strike.

Will you tip yourself or?...

After the coup and fall former GDR Hotel and restaurant owners in Florida (USA) are having difficulties with German tourists. For the first time, East Germans appeared in the Sunshine State, but they were not very familiar with the rules accepted throughout the world. First of all, they didn't know how much to tip. To differentiate between tourists from old and new federal states, officials American hotels and restaurants resorted to a simple trick. They asked German guests: “Are you from the same country as Boris Becker?” If the answer was no, the tip was immediately added to the bill. If the answer was yes, one could expect that experienced "old Germans" would voluntarily give a 15 percent tip.

Florida without sandy beaches

Sunny Florida, which, thanks to its excellent sandy beaches, visited by more than 40 million tourists annually, fears for its famous beaches. Atlantic ocean washes away more and more sand. Therefore, tourism managers from Miami decided to purchase sand at Bahamas, located 80 kilometers from Florida.

Stowaway

The pilot of an airplane flying from Harare (Zimbabwe) to London was truly scared when a cat suddenly jumped into his lap in the cockpit. The "stowaway" slipped unnoticed through African customs and hid in the cockpit of a Zimbabwean plane. Problems began only in London: according to English laws, a cat could enter the country only after a 15-day quarantine. The crew couldn't stay in London that long and didn't want to leave the cat unattended, so the pilot took her with him again on the return flight to Harare. There he handed her over to a homeless shelter animals. Three days later, when he was flying back to London, the performance was repeated. 20 minutes after the start, the same cat jumped into his lap. She again made her way through customs, and again flew as a “hare,” and again set off with the crew on the return flight. But this time she stayed in Zimbabwe.

Cheap restaurant

The owner of the James Cook restaurant in New Zealand came up with a profitable way to cope with the lack of staff in his restaurant: he offered to work for his guests. The one who cleans up after himself food plates, cutlery and glasses, pays 5 marks less; whoever also washes the kitchen floor costs 10 marks. For cleaning the toilets, the owner of the restaurant appointed a bonus: the visitor had the right to eat for free in the restaurant with his whole family twice, in the afternoon and in the evening, choosing dishes of his choice, including drinks.

The main guarantee of a good rest (vacation) is a complete change of activity. That is, if you sit in a stuffy office from morning to night, you should combine rest with physical activity. If you've been spinning like a top all year, on vacation you should, on the contrary, slow down and take a horizontal position somewhere under a palm tree.

Scientists have found that people who go without vacation for a long time have even less life expectancy than chronic alcoholics! This illness is called “No Vacation Syndrome.”
It is no coincidence that this term appeared in the USA. Judge for yourself, the average vacation in the USA lasts only 10 working days. Moreover, 20% of Americans even refuse this vacation. In the United States, employers are under no obligation to provide paid leave to their employees.

Interesting statistics: in order to get rid of stress, 46% of Russians use TV, 43% use music, 19% use alcohol, 16% eat, 12% play sports and only 2% take a vacation.

Marcello Mastroianni was a great connoisseur of women. He knew everything about them, even what kind of woman you should try to meet on the beach when you came to the resort on vacation. You need to choose the most untanned one, she has the whole vacation ahead of her!

It turns out that men flirt more than women during vacation! However, the flirting techniques used by women are much more masterly and effective. For example: dancing at a disco or provocative behavior on the beach.

According to experts, you should absolutely not take your work cell phone or laptop with you on vacation. Most best option- go to a place where there is no cell phone reception and it is impossible to connect to the Internet.

Where do the stars of our show business usually spend their holidays? Seasoned Valery Leontyev and Nikolay Baskov prefer to relax in Miami, young Sergey Lazarev and Irakliy Pirtskhalava dote on Dubai (United United Arab Emirates), and singer Vitas loves to spend his holidays in Tibet.

Recently, 60-year-old Athos Bagatin was convicted in Italy. His sentence was: 900 days of paid leave. The union sued him because Bagatin had not taken a vacation for 28 years. As a result, the court decided to punish the workaholic with a vacation.

Aphorism: “If you want to return from vacation later, warn your boss. And if earlier, warn your wife.”

A recent survey conducted in England revealed the country where most tourists go on vacation for romantic adventures. Most vacationers prefer Australia for such trips. The least desirable country was Portugal. At the same time, more than half of the respondents believe Italian in the sexiest language (that is, the ideal option is: Italian in Australia).

Statistics: 20% of all holiday romances last only one night. Half of the romances last more than a week. However, romantics should not lose hope! 4% of holiday romances ultimately lead to lasting unions.

Dmitry Mendeleev discovered the table of chemical elements on the first day of his vacation! Here's how sometimes it's good to relax and get a good night's sleep.

The most famous leave application in history was once written by General Crillon. He sent his king, Henry the Fourth, a short letter: “Sire, three words: money or vacation.” Henry then answered him: “Crillon, four words: neither one nor the other.”

As psychophysiologists have calculated, a person needs 28 days for proper rest. Although such a long break is a real stress for the body: the longer you rest, the more difficult it is to get into a working rhythm.

Finnish employees have the longest vacation in the world: 39 days. Next follow: Sweden and Denmark - 30-35 days; France and Norway - 25 days; Belgium and Great Britain - 20 days. Canadians and Japanese vacation a maximum of 10-14 days a year. Moreover, 60% of Japanese deliberately refuse weekends and only 5% go on vacation. But in Mexico, employers offer their subordinates no more than six days a year for legal rest.

Experts say that now there is a boom in unusual vacations: adventure travel. They become more and more sophisticated, sometimes moving into the category of feats with increased risk to life. Instead of relaxation - pure adrenaline of our own production.

The risk of cardiovascular disease is reduced by 40% for those who go on vacation at least once a year.

The Norwegian Medical Commission examined the working hours of the country's citizens. After this, the commission recommended that company managers increase the vacation of non-smoking workers by 3 days. Since, according to statistics, smokers spend just about three days a year on smoking breaks.

Norwegian law gives men the right to take 6 weeks of maternity leave! In addition, parents can distribute among themselves the total maternity leave granted to care for the child.

Record: In Sweden, one doctor worked overtime for 24 years, he overworked 10 thousand hours. Now the workaholic doctor is about to take six years off with full pay. Instead, he can receive a cash reward, which will be around 1 million euros.

There is such a strange tradition in Australia. In addition to the usual annual leave, every 15 years emigrant workers receive additional leave (90 days) to visit their historical homeland - England.

Our teachers and researchers have the longest vacation – 56 days. By the way, in 56 days one American physical education teacher reached the North Pole and became the first woman in the world to make such a difficult journey.

Now it has become fashionable to divide your monthly vacation into two parts - two weeks each. But scientists believe that proper rest should last at least three weeks. But a week-long vacation does not make any sense at all - this time will only be spent on acclimatization and “perestroika”.

The USSR volleyball team of the early 1980s swept away everyone in its path. But suddenly there was almost nothing left of the team, and at the World Championships it suffered a fiasco, since at the same time six volleyball players from the main team went on maternity leave.

Interesting facts about vacations:

• The main guarantee of a good rest (vacation) is a complete change of activity. That is, if you sit in a stuffy office from morning to night, you should combine rest with physical activity. If you've been spinning like a top all year, on vacation you should, on the contrary, slow down and take a horizontal position somewhere under a palm tree.
• Scientists have found that people who go without vacation for a long time have even less life expectancy than chronic alcoholics! This illness is called “No Vacation Syndrome.” It is no coincidence that this term appeared in the USA. Judge for yourself, the average vacation in the USA lasts only 10 working days. Moreover, 20% of Americans even refuse this vacation. In the United States, employers are under no obligation to provide paid leave to their employees.
• Interesting statistics: in order to get rid of stress, 46% of Russians use TV, 43% use music, 19% use alcohol, 16% eat, 12% play sports and only 2% take a vacation.
• Marcello Mastroianni was a great connoisseur of women. He knew everything about them, even what kind of woman you should try to meet on the beach when you came to the resort on vacation. You need to choose the most untanned one, she has the whole vacation ahead of her!
• It turns out that men flirt more than women during vacation! However, the flirting techniques used by women are much more masterly and effective. For example: dancing at a disco or provocative behavior on the beach.
• According to experts, you should absolutely not take your work cell phone or laptop with you on vacation. The best option is to go to a place where there is no cell phone reception and it is impossible to connect to the Internet.
• Where do the stars of our show business usually spend their holidays? Seasoned Valery Leontiev and Nikolai Baskov prefer to relax in Miami, young Sergei Lazarev and Irakli Pirtskhalava dote on Dubai (United Arab Emirates), and singer Vitas likes to spend his vacation in Tibet.
• Recently, 60-year-old Athos Bagatin was convicted in Italy. His sentence was: 900 days of paid leave. The union sued him because Bagatin had not taken a vacation for 28 years. As a result, the court decided to punish the workaholic with a vacation.
• Aphorism: “If you want to return from vacation later, warn your boss. And if earlier, warn your wife.”
• A recent survey conducted in England revealed the country where most tourists go on vacation for romantic adventures. Most vacationers prefer Australia for such trips. The least desirable country was Portugal. At the same time, more than half of the respondents consider Italian the sexiest language (that is, the ideal option is: Italian in Australia).
• Statistics: 20% of all holiday romances last only one night. Half of the romances last more than a week. However, romantics should not lose hope! 4% of holiday romances ultimately lead to lasting unions.
• Dmitry Mendeleev discovered the table of chemical elements on the first day of his vacation! Here's how sometimes it's good to relax and get a good night's sleep.
• The most famous leave application in history was once written by General Crillon. He sent his king, Henry the Fourth, a short letter: “Sire, three words: money or vacation.” Henry then answered him: “Crillon, four words: neither one nor the other.”
• As psychophysiologists have calculated, a person needs 28 days for proper rest. Although such a long break is a real stress for the body: the longer you rest, the more difficult it is to get into a working rhythm.
• Finnish employees have the longest vacation in the world: 39 days. Next follow: Sweden and Denmark - 30-35 days; France and Norway - 25 days; Belgium and Great Britain - 20 days. Canadians and Japanese vacation a maximum of 10-14 days a year. Moreover, 60% of Japanese deliberately refuse weekends and only 5% go on vacation. But in Mexico, employers offer their subordinates no more than six days a year for legal rest.
• Experts say that now there is a boom in unusual vacations: adventure travel. They become more and more sophisticated, sometimes moving into the category of feats with an increased risk to life. Instead of relaxation - pure adrenaline of our own production.
• The risk of cardiovascular disease is reduced by 40% for those who go on vacation at least once a year.
• The Norwegian Medical Commission examined the working hours of the country's citizens. After this, the commission recommended that company managers increase the vacation of non-smoking workers by 3 days. Since, according to statistics, smokers spend just about three days a year on smoking breaks.
• Norwegian law gives men the right to take 6 weeks of maternity leave! In addition, parents can distribute among themselves the total maternity leave granted to care for the child.
• Record: In Sweden, one doctor worked overtime for 24 years, he overworked 10 thousand hours. Now the workaholic doctor is about to take six years off with full pay. Instead, he can receive a cash reward, which will be around 1 million euros.
• There is such a strange tradition in Australia. In addition to the usual annual leave, every 15 years, emigrant workers receive additional leave (90 days) to visit their historical homeland - England.
• Our teachers and researchers have the longest vacation – 56 days. By the way, in 56 days one American physical education teacher reached the North Pole and became the first woman in the world to make such a difficult journey.
• Now it has become fashionable to divide your monthly vacation into two parts - two weeks each. But scientists believe that proper rest should last at least three weeks. But a week-long vacation does not make any sense at all - this time will only be spent on acclimatization and “perestroika”.
• The USSR volleyball team of the early 1980s swept away everyone in its path. But suddenly there was almost nothing left of the team, and at the World Championships it suffered a fiasco, since at the same time six volleyball players from the main team went on maternity leave.