Maybe you turn the air conditioning on and stick your feet under the covers if they get a little chilly. Of course, the scrolling didn’t start straight away when I entered my hotel room. And then, of course, came the dance of the light switches. I’d never actually counted the number of light switches in a hotel room before but, at 21, the junior suite at the dated but comfortable hotel on the east coast of Tenerife has to be up there with the record setters. We had also packed a deck of Uno cards and we found one channel among the many French and German offerings on the hotel room telly that was showing Goodfellas in English on repeat.

Source: The Irish Times January 08, 2026 15:01 UTC