Originally Posted by
Vessbot
Really? I'll admit to being wrong, but can you give some examples? I've done a small bit of traveling around Western and Eastern Europe (France, England, Bulgaria), and I don't remember anything about the light switches, and I feel like it would stick out in my memory as a shocking adjustment had they been down=on.
The standard ON position in my experience in England, Poland and New Zealand is DOWN, whereas in Canada and the US it is UP (based on many years of living in each of these countries). International hotel chains may do it differently, but I don't remember.