Do you choose your holiday hotel very carefully as you may spend around 12 hours a day in your hotel? If you think about it logically you probably spend eight hours in bed, one hour having showers, doing hair, make up etc and one hour eating breakfast. So already that’s a total of 10 hours in the hotel. If you are staying on half board you can add at least another hour to that. If you like to relax by the pool that’s even more time in the environs of the hotel.

I don’t spend time in hotel bars (as I’m a Scot who never drinks alcohol) and hardly ever switch on the TV. However now that I have a netbook I may spend 1 – 2 hours a day online, assuming the hotel has wifi, either in the rooms or in the lobby. So that’s me up to around 12 hours a day in the hotel.

I think it depends on the individual and the type of holiday. If we stay for a week in an apartment or hotel during a Winter Sun holiday we might spend a hour or two a day reading in the balcony but if we are on a touring holiday where we stay in a different hotel every night, we may spend very little time in the hotel if we arrive late and depart after breakfast.