There's nothing worse. You arrive overseas on the first day of your holiday early in the morning and you've got a seven or eight hour wait to check into your hotel . You're exhausted, you've got luggage , maybe kids, can't shower, can't change your clothes and can't lie down or sleep.
Admittedly, most hotels will store your luggage for you (not the kids, though) but you've still got to fill in time till 2 or 3pm. That means wandering around a shopping centre, sitting in a park or camping at a McDonald's but everyone's tired and restless. READ MORE: Aussie actress Isla Fisher's unusual plane parenting hack One solution is to book an extra night at the hotel so you can check straight into your room when you arrive but that can be an expensive option and seems a waste in some ways because you've paid for a full night but only used a few hours.
The answer is a day hotel. A hotel room you rent by the hour. READ MORE: ' My pawfectly pet-friendly road trip from Sydney to Brisbane' Now, before you think this sounds like something only offered by sleazy establishments, it's not.
There are hotels set up across the world for this very purpose and many regular hotels that offer the service for extra income - although don't widely advertise it. Savings can be up to 60 per cent off the regular room rate. Recently, I was on a three-day stopover in Singapore and was booked into a $400 a night hotel.
I landed around 7am so was exactly in the situation I've described. I didn't want to pay f.
