I have a question about hotel rooms in Spain. Do most hotels provide toiletries like shampoo and conditioner? Also I am confused about the kind of appliance converter I need. I have my favorite flat iron. It has just the regular USA plug. Do I need just a different kind of plug or do I need a converter? Also, do most hotels provide a hairdryer or do I need to bring one? We are also concerned about recharging the batteries on our digital camera and ipod? We are not planning on bringing our laptop with us.Thanks for your help,
Teri
Posted by
US Pacific Northwest
10344 posts
It depends on if you are staying in a luxury hotel or something else. If not in the luxury hotel, then you shouldn't assume that the hotel will provide a hair dryer, unless it says so on their website, it's not like here where almost all hotels do so.Even the small bottle of shampoo, provided in 100% of American hotels, is not always provided.These links are prior discussions that answer your electrical questions:click1click2click3
Posted by
Napa, CA
3580 posts
Just returned from Spain. All hotels had shampoo, comb, and bar of soap. Some had a shoe-shine thing. None had conditioner.
Posted by
Bloomington, IL, USA
9371 posts
Last year I stayed in a "casa rural" in a tiny town in northern Spain. It had every toiletry you could imagine including a toothbrush/toothpaste kit, liquid body wash, shampoo and conditioner, and luxury soap! (And it was 39E a night). It also had a hairdryer.
Posted by
Anaheim, CA, USA
1455 posts
When we were in Barcelona and Madrid we stayed at a small independent hotel and they had shampoo, soap, toothbrush, and hairdryer. The shampoo was a packet, and the soap was the size of a sugar packet, but it was provided.
If you need bigger soap, bring your own. I went to the dollar store and got a 3-pack (smaller than a regualar bath soap, but bigger than hotel ones).
You may need a converter if your plug doesn't have dual voltage. If you are in doubt, include the converter.
We didn't bring rechargable batteries because we didn't know how often we would be at the hotel... and at night we used the adapter to recharge the cell phone. So we opted for regualar AA batteries instead.