advise the tour provider and on-site tour directors to avoid student use of mini-bars. even if no alcoholic beverages are in these refrigerators, the prices on everything from sparkling water to coke are highly inflated. some minibars can be locked by hotel staff. Those that cannot be locked must be manually divested of alcohol, but this may entail an additional charge for the room. Among the planning guide’s tips on checking in to a hotel: • Prepare rooming lists ahead of arrival • Give each student a hotel business card in the event they get lost while in the city • Look over the neighborhood before allowing students to leave the hotel during free time • Let students know where breakfast will be served • The on-site tour director will post the daily itinerary in the hotel lobby; students should know where this is. • hold a brief meeting that reemphasizes hotel behavior • Advise against using in-room telephone service readers also are advised about the most common hotel problems involving student groups. They include: • students congregating in the hotel halls and disturbing other guests • slamming of room doors • excessive noise from student rooms after curfew • students missing breakfast and wanting to eat on the coach • Taking food from the breakfast room to use for lunch • Leaving rooms in disarray and failing to dispose of garbage properly Teachers can get a good overview of assigned hotels by looking over the hotel web page and reading reviews of the hotel by other patrons. it is also helpful to ask the tour provider to provide the LeisureGroupTravel.com
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