I wrote about this in my 'trip report'. I love the look of the clock and it was situation on the bedside table in my stateroom, and if your host doesn't put it there, you can easily walk it there yourself, lol. My children were playing with it and set the alarm, which is how I learned it had an alarm at 3 in the morning! And the alarm is loud- I do not wake to my husbands soft alarm clock, but I wake to mine and woke to this one instantly! The stick was annoying. Personally, if I bought it I'd hang it on a wall (you can do that) or I'd superglue the stick in the whole so it doesn't fall out.