Hotel Tips for Touring Bands

Video Transcript

"I'm Tony Newton for Expert Village and we are going to talk about musicians in hotels on the road. Of course all of us want to stay at the best hotels if it is five stars we want to stay there all the time. However not all the time we can afford this capability of staying at the five star ones depending on the budget of the tour and your personal budget. The hotel main consideration is first of all you don't want to get in the hotel and mess with the mini bar so your room rate goes up because your mini bar is a refrigerator with drinks and stuff even a coke can cost you $5 or 10 bucks and you don't want that to happen. So there is different kind of hotels that give you different quality even some hotels the big ones you really have to check out the hotels even the big ones will not be as good as some of the small ones and the small ones can be good as the big ones. Once you have done the research but sometime you don't have any choose your told where to stay and this is where you have to stay. So if you are in that situation and the main thing is first of all as soon as you check in everybody gets every bodies room number. You get a list and everybody that way you know who is all staying in what room and you can connect them. This is the most important thing because if you don't you would go through a lot of headaches if you don't know where all of your pals are staying and what floors. Usually you try to get everyone on the same floor but it doesn't happen all the time and you want to find out what there hotel rules are regarding company or whatever but these are some of the considerations that you want to take in mind when dealing with the hotels. As well if you can get to a hotel to the airport. Some hotels have shuttles that are provided by the server of the hotel so that is another good thing you want to check and see if a hotel has. "