[vel0city]

If you did it must not have been in the United States, or you got lucky.

I've been in over a hundred different hotels in the United States. East coast, West coast, Midwest, Rockies, deep South, South Atlantic coast, pretty much every region. I've probably only had a kettle a handful of times. Nearly universally a drip coffee maker, but practically never a kettle.

Note I'm not talking about the machine with the glass carafe on a small burner with a basket above it. That's a coffee maker in US terms, not an electric kettle.

[wnolens]

Oh yea ok I think you're right about the hotels.

It's a pretty universal item in any Canadian home and possibly even dorm room.