It seems like every hotel room on the face of the earth has a long round bed pillow these days. I am never quite sure what to do with them. So I’ve come up with a list for my own personal amusement. And so, without further ado, the top five best things to do with a round hotel pillow:

1. Wait until your travel partner is sitting and quietly watching TV. Casually secure one end of the pillow. Yank and then proceed to pummel your friend, spouse, significant other with aforementioned pillow.

2. In the event that you receive a king bed when you were gunning for two doubles, the round pillow can serve as a makeshift bed barrier between you and your snoring coworker, annoying sibling, friend or frenemie.

3. Longing for some summertime fun in dead winter? You’ll have to wait a few months until you can hop in the pool with one of those silly foam noodle toys, but you can simulate the experience year-round using one of these puppies and an ordinary hotel bathtub.

4. Construct a fort using your bedding and this versatile round pillow as the central support. Then do whatever you would normally do with a fort.

5. Try bending it in half. Then bending it in half again. And one more time. You can’t do it, can you? It’s a great upper body workout we frequent hotel guests have come to know as the Pillow Method.

To find out which Arlington, VA hotel will allow you to accomplish all of these exciting activities, click the pic.