Upgrading and updating your hotel furniture can be a challenge; in a hugely seasonal industry, you typically have the largest amount of funds available at a time of year when you can least afford to have rooms out of action, even for a day.
For most hoteliers this is likely to occur during the summer months, although there are of course other seasonal influences, from winter sports to your proximity to a particularly popular Christmas market.
If the summer months are your peak period, however, there is a growing trend that could ultimately help you to make investments into new hotel furniture at your least busy time of year, without having to budget six months in advance.
According to ABTA - The Travel Association, an increasing number of Britons are booking holidays of all kinds well in advance, and there's good reason to expect the proportion to continue growing as the younger generation reach maturity.
Early bookings for summer 2014 are up 10%, building on the trend that was already apparent at the end of the summer holiday season in 2013.
At that time, ABTA surveyed holidaymakers and found 27% had booked further in advance than the previous year, and only 20% had left it until later, with the remaining 53% booking roughly the same length of time ahead of their departure date.
Among 16 to 24-year-olds, 48% had lengthened their lead time, along with 41% of young families, highlighting how hoteliers' funds are likely to continue to come in further ahead of customers' actual holidays in the years to come - if not in full, then at least their deposits.
The association added that market conditions are changing consumer behaviour, as travel agents are no longer faced with such rigid access to the market.
As such, there are fewer rock-bottom price deals to be had by leaving it late, as travel companies do not necessarily have a fixed amount of capacity to sell.
This is returning greater control to travel agents and hoteliers - and could help you to update your hotel furniture at the time of year you choose in the years to come, and not simply when the funds finally arrive.