{"id":8568,"date":"2012-10-15T02:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/room-parties-and-nudie-runs-zuji-com-au-survey-uncovers-aussies-hotel-habits-2\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T02:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T02:41:00","slug":"room-parties-and-nudie-runs-zuji-com-au-survey-uncovers-aussies-hotel-habits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/10\/room-parties-and-nudie-runs-zuji-com-au-survey-uncovers-aussies-hotel-habits-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ROOM PARTIES AND NUDIE RUNS &#8211; ZUJI.COM.AU SURVEY UNCOVERS AUSSIES&#8217; HOTEL HABITS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Inline images 1\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Q6k3LW_vXpA\/S_GnTi0y3CI\/AAAAAAAAAgA\/6jBXK-g3k80\/s1600\/Pictures+4-19+454.jpg\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\"><br \/>Hotel room party (<a href=\"http:\/\/whatsgoingonwiththejohnsons.blogspot.com.au\/\">http:\/\/whatsgoingonwiththejohnsons.blogspot.com.au<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>One in four Aussies confess to holding parties in their hotel room, almost a quarter have run naked in public areas of a hotel and a staggering 70% admit to taking ten minutes to figure out how to turn on a hotel shower.<\/p>\n<p>Online travel agent, <a href=\"http:\/\/zuji.com.au\/\">ZUJI.com.au<\/a>, uncovered the results in a survey to find out more about the average Australian&#8217;s hotel habits. \u00a0James Gaskell, Managing Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zuji.com.au\/\">ZUJI Australia<\/a> and APAC, says the survey saw over 1,000 respondents weigh in on their hotel habits, hang-ups and secrets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall, Australians like to relax and unwind when staying in a hotel room. \u00a0Sleeping in late, having access to free breakfast and Wi-Fi and finding a hotel which provides good value for money are major priorities. \u00a0However, some of our survey results were surprising, to say the least,&#8221; says Gaskell.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to indulging their inner party animal every now and then, the results show that travellers also tend to let their concerns about the environment relax a little bit when staying in a hotel. \u00a0Respondents admitted to getting an extra key cut to keep the air-con running all day, taking long showers and getting their towels washed every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surprisingly, the naughtiest age group we found were those aged 45-55! \u00a0The results of our survey consistently showed that this demographic was the most likely to have done a &#8216;nudie run&#8217; and hold room parties,&#8221; says Gaskell.<\/p>\n<p>SURPRISING SURVEY STATISTICS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over half of survey respondents say they choose where they stay based on price and value over reviews or location. \u00a0Interestingly, around one in ten Australians say they won&#8217;t stay anywhere that doesn&#8217;t provide free breakfast and free Wi-Fi.<\/li>\n<li>When it comes to hotel peeves, Australians are definitely not morning folk, with 31% selecting early checkouts and 26% selecting breakfast finishing too early as the most unpleasant thing about staying in a hotel.<\/li>\n<li>40% of Australians admitted to smuggling in a group of friends and family into a room they&#8217;d booked for just one or two people. \u00a0But when it comes to smuggling out breakfast from the buffet, Aussies draw the line. \u00a070% say they&#8217;ve never done it.<\/li>\n<li>When it comes to hygiene, 70% of Australians came clean and admitted to taking &#8216;abnormally&#8217; long showers during their hotel stays, while 23% opt for clean towels every time they bathe.<\/li>\n<li>63% of Australians have had an extra key made up at reception so they can leave the air conditioning on while they are out.<\/li>\n<li>Almost a quarter of Australians admit to doing a &#8216;nudie run&#8217; through a hotel corridor and about 10% admit to regularly holding room parties. \u00a0Men proved about 5% more likely than women to have run naked through the halls.<\/li>\n<li>The major surprise for the survey was the 45-54 age group, which was statistically the most likely demographic to have run naked, most likely to regularly sleep naked and most likely to have had room parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotel room party (http:\/\/whatsgoingonwiththejohnsons.blogspot.com.au) One in four Aussies confess to holding parties in their hotel room, almost a quarter have run naked in public areas of a hotel and a staggering 70% admit to taking ten minutes to figure out how to turn on a hotel shower. Online travel agent, ZUJI.com.au, uncovered the results in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}