What It's Really Like Living in Hotels as an Airline Flight Attendant
3/3/202636 min
Hotels. The glamorous perk of flight attendant life… until they’re not. This week, we’re pulling back the curtain on what crew hotel life is really like — the good, the weird, and the absolutely unhinged. From “food beds” vs. “sleeping beds” to conference tables with no actual beds in sight, we’ve seen it all.
We’re also venting (just a little) about holiday passengers, airplane bathroom etiquette, and those deplaning sprinters who think row 37 is somehow first off the aircraft. Plus, in Galley Gossip, a mid-flight wardrobe change turns the aisle into a full-blown fashion runway somewhere ove...
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First 90 secondsDrew· Host0:00
Well, my most favorite, and I think anyone who actually works in aviation, I really like to have a hotel room with two beds, uh, one for sleeping and one for eating Those are the rules.
Rich· Host0:09
There's a kitchen bed and a living room bed Correct.
Drew· Host0:11
So I really like having a sleeping bed and an eating bed. I don't really like when there's, like, other furniture in a hotel room, like couches or desks or anything like that. [laughs] I don't understand them. What do you do with those?
Rich· Host0:22
Some of them make sense. Like, I understand business travelers need desks and things like that, but there's always, like, the random little- But you can do that in your office bed.
Drew· Host0:31
Like, I ... Like, what- Well, how many beds do you want? Well, two of them. Like a sleeping bed, which will double as your office bed 'cause you didn't get food crumbs in it.
Rich· Host0:38
Okay. Fair.
Drew· Host0:38
The food bed is really the, like- The food bed and the non-food bed.
Rich· Host0:41
[upbeat music] Ever wondered what your flight attendants are really talking about behind the galley curtain?
Drew· Host0:47
Welcome to Two Guys On A Plane, your go-to podcast for an insider look at flight attendant life.
Rich· Host0:53
We're your hosts, Rich and Drew, and we're here to tell you what really goes on at 35,000 feet.
Drew· Host0:58
So sit back, relax. We're ready for takeoff.
Rich· Host1:01
One of the best parts about being a flight attendant, and also the worst, is the hotels that we stay in, and people are always asking us, like, "Oh, do you guys pay for your own hotels?" [laughs] First of all, no, that would suck. Um, and secondly, they're like, "Oh, that must be nice." And I feel like it's very much hit or miss. Like, there's good things about hotels, and then there's some not so good things about hotels. So that's what we're gonna talk about today, because