20 h. ago The hill I will die on: Decorative cushions and throws on hotel beds should be banned, immediately | Annabel Lee

Why spoil perfectly crisp, clean bedding with dusty old accessories that have been used by hundreds of strangers? YuckPicture the scene: you enter a lovely clean hotel room. There are newly laundered crisp sheets and fluffy fresh towels. But as you sit on the bed, the cushions let out a cloud of dust and you realise the bed is covered with an unwashed bedspread that has been sat on by every other guest who has ever visited this room. It’s usually slung across the bottom of the bed, so lots of them have probably put their feet on it, too.I hate decorative cushions and throws on hotel beds. The first thing I do on seeing them is remove them with the tips of my fingers and shove them in the wardrobe. Doesn’t everyone? Due to the often impressive efficiency of hospital corners on the bed, removing the throws can be a challenge, frequently resulting in wresting the entire duvet off the bed so I can discard the offending bedspread. And don’t get me started on when everything reappears on ...

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21 h. ago Tricks YOU can steal from the property pros who stage houses to make them instantly more sellable

Infusing your home with divine smells and dressing the beds with hotel-style linen - known as property staging - could add up to major financial wins if you're trying to sell.

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4 d. ago Keep your bedroom 5C warmer with hotel trick that doesn't involve the thermostat

Experts shared a hack to keep rooms feeling nice and warm without using the thermostat

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5 d. ago Five reduced Dusk bedding sets with up to 70% off for a new year refresh

Making your bedroom look like a boutique hotel doesn't need to cost a lot

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8 d. ago ‘No one can know’: Heated Rivalry’s gay love story exposes ice hockey’s culture of silence

The surprise hit series has reopened a familiar debate: why, in the National Hockey League, visibility is still treated as a problem rather than a possibilityAt around the midpoint of the first episode of Heated Rivalry, just after Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov – one Canadian, the other Russian, both hockey’s top prospects – have had their first tryst, Hollander sits at the side of his hotel bed and says: “So. You’re not going to tell anyone about this, are you?” Rozanov, lying naked beside him, replies sarcastically: “Me? Yes, Hollander, I’m going to tell everyone.” Hollander reinforces the point: “Because no one can know,” he says. Rozanov utters something under his breath in Russian, then: “Hollander. Look, I’m not going to tell anyone, OK?” Hollander replies: “OK.”No one can know. If hockey were to have an unofficial slogan, this might be it. Heated Rivalry, the surprise 2025 hit series from Crave and HBO, is layered drama, prompting timely questions about the barriers to acc...

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2 w. ago Best Dunelm Boxing Day bedding deals 2025: Up to 75% off hotel

Dunelm's Boxing Day sale is live with incredible savings of up to 75% off premium bedding sets. Our home expert has handpicked nine luxury hotel-style bedding collections for budget-friendly prices.

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3 w. ago Stranded review – this Italian crime show is like Agatha Christie, Lost and The White Lotus all at once

A hotel’s worth of rich guests cut off by snow, a dead body, the mafia and some supernatural antics there’s a banquet of melodrama to feast on in this soapy foreign-language seriesThe snow is crisp and even, up in the Italian Alps: how lucky the protagonists in the new Walter Presents series Stranded are to be spending Christmas at a four-star spa resort in the beautiful Vanoi Valley! The welcome is warm, the hot chocolate is decadent and the hotel building, bedecked with giant baubles, looks like a greetings card painting. But wait! Threatening music? Characters staring anxiously into space, because they clearly have a big dark secret? A guest in a witness protection programme, and another who recognises her as the witness in the forthcoming trial of his secret mafia brother? Attenzione! This Italian-made Green, Red and White Lotus might not be such a paradise. Bad stuff is about to go down.Specifically, this is several thousand tons of snow and the side of a nearby mountain. One a...

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