I was just wondering when you have booked your holiday do you go out your way to contact the hotel direct to get a better chance of getting your room request and have you been happy what you have been allocated? The reason I ask is since visiting a hotel regularly in Benidorm I now know which rooms are the best ones (i.e sunny with pool veiw) and have been lucky enough most of the time to get the one I want or at least same position/floor. Another time I went to a different hotel and was advised by a member the apartments that end in 01 are the best, so I sent the hotel a email asking for a apartment that ends in 01 and also a phone call nearer the holiday I was told both times ‘'we will do our best, but cant be guaranteed'' but was so pleased that this was given to us at check inn as the veiws were lovely as it was a corner room and it certainly made the holiday bit more special.
My family though think this is all down to the luck of the draw and you just get what you're given and think I'm to fussy. There has been on occasions where I have been asked to move room as I knew that there was better and have had some great room changes, I find the woman receptionists are the best to ask with out a doubt. My friend made me laugh on the phone her daughter in law went on holiday for a week not so long ago and she said the first room they was allocated was awful and in the end they got moved from a hotel room to a villa type room in the complex that was really spacious.

Any of your experiences do you have a special room when returning to the same hotel? Is anyone else fussy like me? Just wondering also dose anyone know how room allocations work at hotels and is it really just luck?