Ask for an Upgrade
This next hack might sound a bit crazy, but please, bear with us. There’s a pretty simple way to upgrade your room. All you have to do is ask the front desk officer when checking in. If there’s space in the hotel, you might not even have to slip the officer a $20 bill to move to a new, larger room.
Of course, this won’t work 100% of the time, but you never know what you can get if you don’t ask. It’s not like they’re going to kick you out of the hotel for asking whether you can move to a larger room.