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What should one be careful about when spending Shabbos at a hotel?

Due to the widespread use of technology, there are quite a number of issues that have to be addressed prior to spending Shabbos at a hotel. All the doors we…

We are staying at a hotel for a family Shabbaton and we have to have our luggage out of the room Shabbos afternoon at check out time. The hotel can’t send someone around to collect the luggage, but they will give us a room to place it in. Are we allowed to put our Muktzeh items in our suitcase before Shabbos, and then Shabbos morning close it up and bring it to that luggage room, since their suitcase is also holding non-Muktzah items?

You may carry the suitcase if the non-Muktzeh items inside are more important than the Muktzeh items. In principle, one would have to first shake out the Muktzeh items before…