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Red flags for your next stay

More people are choosing to book a hotel room over Airbnb on their trips. But that doesn’t mean hotels are always the perfect solution.

From how your bed is made to burned-out lightbulbs in the lobby, these signs might indicate you made the wrong choice. Hotel employees shared the red flags you should look out for when checking in.

This is what they said.

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More of this week’s top reads:

• Jessica Fern’s ‘Polysecure’ promised a world beyond monogamy. She didn’t say it would be easy.
• How to invest 3% of your day in exercise to live longer, according to an expert in healthy aging.
• I spent 8 days in Panama and returned feeling like I visited 3 different countries. Here’s why it’s worth a trip.
• After having 4 kids, I had to change the way we travel. I look for playgrounds wherever we go and allow fast food.
• Photos show the lavish interiors of The Elms, a Rhode Island mansion built for a coal millionaire in the Gilded Age.
• I made Ina Garten’s 5-ingredient burger patties. They tasted amazing and came together so quickly.
• I spent 4 nights on the Amalfi Coast. It was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been, but I’d never go back.
• A couple moved onto a never-ending, around-the-world cruise that’s been stuck at port for 3 months — see inside the Villa Vie Odyssey ship.
• I thought I was giving my kids the best childhood ever until my 4-year-old asked why we didn’t own a ‘bigger golf cart’.

The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York City. Lisa Ryan, executive editor, in New York. Amanda Yen, fellow, in New York. Grace Lett, editor, in Chicago.