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100%. As someone who likes to sleep in the dark and used to travel a lot I can't tell you how many times I would arrive, exhausted at some hotel and then have

100%. As someone who likes to sleep in the dark and used to travel a lot I can't tell you how many times I would arrive, exhausted at some hotel and then have to spend a further 30mins unplugging stuff, clipping the curtains shut using the clippy clotheshangers and covering every damn light on every thing with a postcard, a postit note, some of my clothes etc, only having to repeat the charade daily after the cleaning staff would "fix" my room and undo all my careful endarkening. Not everything needs to have a goddamn light on it. Seriously it doesn't. I quite like the feedback that phones have started to do where if you put something on a magsafe charger it initially does something so you know its charging and then darkens itself. It doesn't just sit there glowing like a magical item in some hellish RPG.

jraph 3y ago
Yep, that TV at the hotel in front of the bed I'm not going to use anyway but has a led directly lighting the eyes, unplugged. Last time, the thermostat was lighting the room with its very bright led. I had to put it a sock on. All people of my group complained. Do they not test their rooms at hotels?
- wryanzimmerman 3y ago
  First step in any hotel room is find the nightstand light and unplug it to plug in your phone charger. Second step is unplug the tv to kill the status lights… I’m shocked that hotels haven’t started changing things just to save the cost of plugging it back in. Airbnbs, on the other hand, usually come with the nightstand lights pre-unplugged in my experience, sometimes with the cables all coiled up neatly because everyone knows they’re only there for the listing photos and nobody will ever use them.
  - jraph 3y ago
    Well, I do plug it back in before leaving :-) With you for the phone charger, usually another small light is reachable from the bed anyway.
- Gud 3y ago
  Like other posters have suggested, get electrical tape. My personal pet peeve is the thermostat. I usually cover it with some tape and thicker paper/carton
wcfields 3y ago
On the side of my portable battery, and on the AC adapters, I wrap a few times of Gaff Tape [1] so I always have at least 6ft+ available when traveling to cover up the blinking status LEDs of smoke/CO2 detectors in hotels. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Gaffer-Power-Non-Reflective-Multipurpose/dp/B00GZE3UJ8/ https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Gaffer-Power-Non-Reflect...

jraph 3y ago

Yep, that TV at the hotel in front of the bed I'm not going to use anyway but has a led directly lighting the eyes, unplugged. Last time, the thermostat was lighting the room with its very bright led. I had to put it a sock on. All people of my group complained. Do they not test their rooms at hotels?

wryanzimmerman 3y ago
First step in any hotel room is find the nightstand light and unplug it to plug in your phone charger. Second step is unplug the tv to kill the status lights… I’m shocked that hotels haven’t started changing things just to save the cost of plugging it back in. Airbnbs, on the other hand, usually come with the nightstand lights pre-unplugged in my experience, sometimes with the cables all coiled up neatly because everyone knows they’re only there for the listing photos and nobody will ever use them.
- jraph 3y ago
  Well, I do plug it back in before leaving :-) With you for the phone charger, usually another small light is reachable from the bed anyway.
Gud 3y ago
Like other posters have suggested, get electrical tape. My personal pet peeve is the thermostat. I usually cover it with some tape and thicker paper/carton

wcfields 3y ago

On the side of my portable battery, and on the AC adapters, I wrap a few times of Gaff Tape [1] so I always have at least 6ft+ available when traveling to cover up the blinking status LEDs of smoke/CO2 detectors in hotels. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Gaffer-Power-Non-Reflective-Multipurpose/dp/B00GZE3UJ8/ https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Gaffer-Power-Non-Reflect...