Deep Thoughts on Hotel Stays
In a hotel, do you unpack fully or live out of your suitcase? This poll seeks to understand the secrets of hotel stays.
Carter Cathey
10/6/20251 min read


Whenever I check into a hotel room, I unpack my suitcase. To me, this means my suitcase is empty. I use the closet, the hangers, and the dresser. My empty suitcase is where I put my dirty clothes so that by the end of the trip, I am pretty much packed.
My wife is almost the opposite. She lives out of the suitcase. She will hang up a few things if she doesn't want them to wrinkle but for everything else, she just keeps it in the suitcase.
My kids just throw everything on the floor until they pack to leave.
How do you "unpack" in a hotel room?
Does the length of stay change your answer?
Based on 31 respondents to my LinkedIn poll asking "How do you move into a hotel room?"
Fully Unpack - Empty Suitcase - 29%
Partial Unpack - 32%
Live out of the Suitcase - 39%
About Carter Cathey
Carter Cathey is a sales and revenue leader with more than 20 years of experience helping market research, technology, and private-equity-backed businesses scale revenue, improve operations, and build predictable growth systems.
He writes about leadership, growth, sales operations, organizational design, and business systems.
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About Carter Cathey
Carter Cathey is a sales and revenue leader with more than 20 years of experience helping market research, technology, and private-equity-backed businesses scale revenue, improve operations, and build predictable growth systems.
Throughout his career, he has led sales transformation initiatives, pricing strategy projects, subscription business model transitions, operational redesign efforts, and commercial growth programs.
He writes about leadership, organizational design, business systems, data-driven decision making, and the challenges companies face as they scale.
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