Suite Arrival Delivers Toothpaste (And Other Essentials) to Your Hotel

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Name: Suite Arrival

Quick Pitch: Travelers customize Suite Arrival kits with their favorite brands of personal care items. Suite Arrival ships the kit for the traveler to receive upon checking in to their hotel.

Genius Idea: When you fly to a distant city, you can’t take a lot of your personal items with you because of airport security concerns. Toothpaste tubes and shaving cream bottles contain too much liquid. Razors can also pose problems.

You have to either rely on what the hotel has waiting for you when you arrive, or you have to buy new hygiene items in your destination city. It’s a pain, especially when you’re too busy with meetings to pick those items up at the store.

Suite Arrival attempts to resolve that issue; it calls itself the “Netflix for travel.” The analogy isn’t precisely accurate since you’re buying the materials, not borrowing them, but it’s nevertheless a great idea.

When you’re planning a trip, you can go to the website and select the personal hygiene items that you want: shampoo, toothbrush, hairspray, shaving cream, body wash or whatever you need. Suite Arrival will make sure those items are waiting for you at your hotel after you’ve landed.

The travel kits are intended to be affordable, especially if your stay is a long one; a sample kit we made was fairly comprehensive but cost less than $20. Suite Arrival has a Twitter account that you can follow for updates and more information, but if you just head over to the website, you’ll get a clear sense of what the service has to offer.

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