Exclusive Feature: It is summer time and about one half of the globe in holidays – inclusively all those guys who never before saw a hotel from inside. We advise them special trainings to become adjusted asap.

One of the first hotel stays, which I remember, my family took at the Italian Adriatic coast. We lived in a small family hotel where the chef served the meals personally, all guests - usually families – twice a day met in a large dining room and looked full of fascination to a table on which sat a single lady.

She attracted anyone's attention through so bizarre bad table manners on that it already had entertainment value. So she poured leftover soup from her plate back into the pot regularly, bread put up as a snack for later in her pocket and took with her the flower decoration of the table. "Maniac" she was nicknamed after a few days by everybody.

While in the summer vacation and guest in many tourist hotels at the Baltic Sea, the lady of the early days met again our thoughts - because "Maniac" apparently has a large family: all the maniacs who never saw a hotel from the inside, but now at last want to live out their wanderlust and cosmopolitan need in the great holiday.

Little is as striking as bad behavior in a good hotel. It is a constant challenge and a burden not only very embarrassing for the subjects themselves, but also for the staff. Not least because you should ignore the misconduct as diplomatically as possible. Why is something like "international hotel conduct" not a school topic yet?

This occasion now did motivate our tips for hotel guests, as they perfectly attract attention in a negative way - ten golden rules to behave badly in a good hotel:

1. The breakfast buffet is for you - and of course even throughout the day! So download pockets, bags and if possible yet the briefcase with fruit, cake, and boiled eggs. Special tip: Egg spoons and salt shakers are right next door, they still fit in!

2. Tip is an invention of the 19th century, as travelling Dandies simply didn't know where to with the wonga. That is not yours – hold together your tedious savings and reward porter, lift boys, staff and wallet parkers all with an encouraging smile at most, they will be grateful!

3. Any trip would be a failed one without nice souvenir: the beautiful whisky glasses from the minibar, bathrobe and towels must necessarily be in the luggage. If the frame, the mirror, or the pillows do appeal in any way to you – the hotel has to be renovated urgently anyway.

4. In the hotel, feel right just like at home - and therefore you can go in shorts, bathrobe or if necessary, in underwear through the lobby! It is not your fault that other guests are as stiff as the hotel manager and constantly run around in a suit.

5. The spa area does usually not contain as many lounge chairs as guests. But do not care! In order you may certainly have one for yourself, go directly to the check-in there – of course you do not have to put off your slippers to perform this urgent action – and place a towel on the best lounge chair. That suffices as a reservation for the entire duration of your stay.

6. On holiday and on business may certainly you should not allow anyone to rush you – especially such cheap forces in ill-fitting suits, sitting at the entrance to a restaurant and insist on, that at 10 o'clock the breakfast time is over. Breakfast as long as you wish! And if somebody tries to start clearing up the buffet, tear strips of him/her!

7. A hotel should be the extended couch of your home – and then "Call-A-Pizza" tastes but also the best, isn't it? You really usher the delicious spaghetti dinner, if you carry a few bottles of Coke under the arm at the front desk over and later waving the pizza-service into the room. This looks like true lifestyle, doesn't it?

8. The Party (see point 7) can of course really succeed, if friends (and especially girlfriends) from outside come to join. The mood at the peak, a relocation of the event from your room to the spa area is a good recommendation. You (and staff) are not determined so quickly forget this event!

9. Speaking of the Spa: Of course it will be available also after check-out yet all day, and definetely for your collegues, friends and lovers.

10 Actually self-evident: You bring your Coke or Martini of course even in the spa; who ever would pay the total overpriced hotel drinks voluntarily? No surprise that we do not either.

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Roland Wildberg is Travel Writer and Correspondent based in Berlin, Germany. He started as an Editor for the National daily 'Die Welt' (tourism section), later on switched to a freelanced career and nowadays mainly publishes on the Web. Observing the hospitality industry always has fascinated him as it looks like the perfect combination of sleeping and writing – work-live-balance as its best.

Roland also heads the annual 4Hoteliers ITB Berlin news micro-site journalist and video/photo teams. For more info: www.4Hoteliers.com/itb.

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