Wake up and smell the free breakfast: Holiday Inn Express adds scent-based alarm clocks to rooms

Wake up and smell the free breakfast: Holiday Inn Express adds scent-based alarm clocks to rooms

Wake up and smell the bacon. Holiday Inn Express by IHG is launching a world-first hotel experience with a scent-based alarm clock in an effort to improve guests’ sleep and mornings. Beeps and buzzers, be gone — the Holiday Inn Express Breakfast Alarm Clock is a brand-new device that wakes guests up with the sweet … Read more

Exclusive | Gen Z students move emotional support pets into dorm rooms — to cope with the ‘trauma’ of college: ‘Really comforting’

Exclusive | Gen Z students move emotional support pets into dorm rooms — to cope with the ‘trauma’ of college: ‘Really comforting’

In dorm rooms across America, college students used to go at it like rabbits. Now, they house the cutesy animals instead. As Gen Z forgoes sex, drugs, and alcohol, youngsters are instead spending their time on campus tending to emotional support pets. Students are housing dogs, cats, rabbits, and guinea pigs in their dorm rooms … Read more

Exclusive | NYC colleges push back on trash with swap shops — where students can furnish dorm rooms for free: ‘Making a difference’

Exclusive | NYC colleges push back on trash with swap shops — where students can furnish dorm rooms for free: ‘Making a difference’

Shop ’til you swap. When Shannon Hughes saw the piles of discarded dorm-room furnishings that her fellow New School students ditched at the end of every school year, she always felt there had to be a better way to keep the scads of unwanted shower caddies, hangers, laundry baskets and lamps out of university dumpsters. … Read more

Experts reveal the 5 dirtiest spots in hotel rooms

Experts reveal the 5 dirtiest spots in hotel rooms

Hotel rooms may look sparkling clean when you first arrive – but surprising levels of bacteria and viruses can be lurking in overlooked places. Beyond the usual suspects such as sinks and toilets, common “touchpoints” like remotes and light switches are also crawling with germs, studies say. Hotel rooms had up to 10 times more bacteria … Read more

Gen-Z has unbelievable job requirements — including nap rooms and ping pong: survey

Gen-Z has unbelievable job requirements — including nap rooms and ping pong: survey

They’re Gen-ZZZ. Nearly one in six Americans under the age of 28 won’t even consider taking a job unless there’s a designated snooze space at the office, a mind-boggling new survey found.  “It’s clear Gen-Z isn’t shy about voicing what they want from today’s workplace, and for many, it goes beyond salary and health insurance,” … Read more

I discovered a ‘torture dungeon’ of hidden rooms and passageways under my house

I discovered a ‘torture dungeon’ of hidden rooms and passageways under my house

Was it the chamber of secrets? A homeowner was floored after detailing how he discovered an Indiana Jones-esque labyrinth of hidden chambers and tunnels underneath his home. “Found a network of tunnels and rooms under my house,” the gobsmacked fellow wrote in a viral Reddit post alongside screenshots of his spine-tingling find. The photos depict … Read more

‘The Pitt’ Captures the Real Overcrowding Crisis in Emergency Rooms

‘The Pitt’ Captures the Real Overcrowding Crisis in Emergency Rooms

The emergency department waiting room was jammed, as it always is, with patients sitting for hours, closely packed on hard metal chairs. Only those with conditions so dire they needed immediate care — like a heart attack — got seen immediately. One man had had enough. He pounded on the glass window in front of … Read more

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ inner circle exposes dark secrets of his alleged red rooms in explosive documentary

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ inner circle exposes dark secrets of his alleged red rooms in explosive documentary

A new Peacock documentary about Sean “Diddy” Combs released its trailer on Thursday. Called “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy,” the 90-minute documentary will tell the story of the disgraced and currently incarcerated rapper and music mogul’s early years. Per Peacock, it will feature exclusive interviews with Combs’ childhood friends, former bodyguards, former interns, and … Read more

Not model behavior: Naomi Campbell banned from charity role after allegedly spending funds on lavish hotel rooms and more

Not model behavior: Naomi Campbell banned from charity role after allegedly spending funds on lavish hotel rooms and more

It’s not model behavior.  Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been banned from serving as a charity trustee for five years after an investigation from a watchdog group found evidence of alleged financial misconduct.  On Tuesday, the UK’s Charity Commission released a statement reporting their findings about Fashion For Relief, an organization that Campbell, 54, founded.  “Fashion … Read more

Airplanes’ secret rooms that passengers will never see revealed

Airplanes’ secret rooms that passengers will never see revealed

Entering this area isn’t going to fly. Airplanes have secret, forbidden areas where passengers are prohibited from — and even the most elite members don’t have access to them. On select airplanes, there are hidden “crew rest compartments” reserved exclusively for crew members to rest during long-haul flights — and passengers are strictly prohibited from entering. … Read more

NYC’s hottest chain, Sushi by Bou, turns old utility rooms into elaborate 200-square-foot sushi bars

NYC’s hottest chain, Sushi by Bou, turns old utility rooms into elaborate 200-square-foot sushi bars

If you have an extra 200-square-feet of empty, windowless space laying around, Richie Romero might want to turn it into a sushi bar. The 48-year-old restaurateur and nightlife impresario, and his partners, Mike Sinensky and Erika London, have turned tiny utility spaces into a growing empire of buzzy, bento-box-sized sushi bars Customers love the offbeat … Read more

Woman pleads for separate waiting rooms for miscarriages because it’s hard seeing new moms: ‘Like it absolutely sucks’

Woman pleads for separate waiting rooms for miscarriages because it’s hard seeing new moms: ‘Like it absolutely sucks’

A Georgia woman was overtaken by emotion as she pleaded to doctors about having separate waiting rooms for miscarriages and expecting parents. India Batson, 29, who lost two children back to back, admitted it “absolutely sucks” when having to see other pregnant women in the waiting room. “I would like to make a recommendation to OBGYN … Read more

I’m a real estate agent — I find creepy hidden rooms like this one all the time

I’m a real estate agent — I find creepy hidden rooms like this one all the time

Here’s a room with a view — a very creepy one. A housing broker from Grand Rapids, Michigan shared a strange finding from one of her home listings on TikTok. “I find secret rooms all over, they’re one of my favorite things to find when showing homes,” real estate agent Lauren Rockel told The Post. … Read more

Snoop Dogg sues Walmart for sabotaging cereal brand by hiding it in storage rooms: ‘Diabolical actions’

Snoop Dogg sues Walmart for sabotaging cereal brand by hiding it in storage rooms: ‘Diabolical actions’

Snoop Dogg is taking on Walmart after he claims the grocery giant tried to “choke” out his cereal brand by hiding it in storage rooms. The rapper, whose legal name is Calvin Broadus, and his Broadus Foods cofounder Percy “Master P” Miller, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Walmart and Post Foods, claiming the companies “sabotaged” … Read more

The strangest items left in hotel rooms, travel company reveals

The strangest items left in hotel rooms, travel company reveals

They checked out without these prized and peculiar possessions. A travel company revealed the top 10 strangest things left in hotel rooms in the past year and the objects travelers have forgotten are quite unusual. EasyJet Holidays, a company that offers vacation packages to more than 100 destinations across Europe, surveyed 100 of the hotels in … Read more

Cyberattack causes multiple hospitals to shut emergency rooms and divert ambulances

Cyberattack causes multiple hospitals to shut emergency rooms and divert ambulances

Cybercriminals attacked the computer systems of a California-based health care provider causing emergency rooms in multiple states to close and ambulance services to be redirected. The ransomware attack happened at Prospect Medical Holdings of Los Angeles, which has hospitals and clinics in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. Prospect Medical is investigating how the breach … Read more

I’m tired of my kids not cleaning their rooms — here’s how I tricked them into it

I’m tired of my kids not cleaning their rooms — here’s how I tricked them into it

A dad who turned his children’s chores into a game of bribery has left the internet in a frenzy. The unidentified dad appeared to tape a note to his kids’ bedroom door informing them they had to clean their rooms in order to have access to the WiFi password. “Let’s play a game,” read the … Read more

Couple gets letter revealing ‘creepy secret’ rooms in their 130-year-old home

Couple gets letter revealing ‘creepy secret’ rooms in their 130-year-old home

Well, house this for creepy?  Millennial couple Courtney and Matt are discovering secret rooms, hideaways and compartments in their 130-year-old home, thanks to an eerie, unexpected message from the “last surviving member” of the family that previously owned the estate.  “We got a letter addressed ‘purchaser,’” explained Courtney in her trending TikTok tell-all, adding that the … Read more