Interesting custom if you travel with a Taiwanese person. When checking in to empty room (to me) they knock on the door.
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Every. Single. Time.
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always, my wife will get very angry and tell me off if I ever enter a hotel room for the first time without knocking.
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And can’t be all the lights off always need be one on at night
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Are you sure it’s because of the ghosts?
You know that hotels sometimes double book a room and it’s not uncommon for strangers to walk into a room where there’s a naked guy lying on the bed enjoying a special TV program or whatever^^
Thats not even a joke.
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Other than hotel staff I’ve never seen a Taiwanese person knocking on a hotel room door before entering!
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I’ve never heard of this, but I also don’t have a wife.
no, ghosts. that’s what she told me since day one of traveling together.
Then maybe you really need one of these.
Or just call the local ghosthunters^^ but I don’t know the number^^
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one of the very few songs I can still play by heart with the saxophone. SO fun!
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You should play that before entering the hotel room^^
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Well not everyone. But was in Italy/Malta/Estonia with a Taiwan friend, she did this always, middle age (32). Maybe younger people less, not sure but still some do it from the news story.
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Verily, it is true!
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For years I thought my wife did this to check there wasn’t other hotel guests in the room.
I just asked mine, as she always does it wherever we go in the world. Yes, its the ghostbuster theory.
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I have heard this many time over the years around Asia, I have also known people who do it at any building thats not been opened for a while, e.g. visiting a second home or holiday home.
A friends wife (not Asian) would always knock and say hello before going into a hotel room even if they had been staying for a week. She had got into the habit when working as a holiday rep in Spain, the theory was if someone was burgling the room give them a few seconds to get away, better than walking straight in and facing a panicking intruder.
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How did you find out the real reason? Also for me, years…, and same thoughts.
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My wife must have missed the memo on this.
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Interesting. I find taiwanese never knock enough, quite rude not to. Always have people entering rooms without knocking. To the point I wedge something under hotel doors now because the cleaners have keys.
Maybe the inlaws always thought I was being nice checking for ghosts so diligently when I was simply insisting we respect the Homo sapiens that may be behind the curtain 