Hotels

The Watergate has an interesting place in my memory.  I’m too young to know it for its scandalous history, but it WAS where I bought all my groceries when I first lived in DC. There was a market in its basement and I lived a few blocks away.  I spent …

I previously wrote about Holiday Inn Express offering pancakes to guests staying up late at night. But Holiday Inn Express has one-upped themselves in the world of breakfast obsessions. They have released a set of breakfast-related emojis for your smart phone. Why? Well… I’m not actually sure why.  Other than …

  Over two years ago, I had a trip to New Orleans where I was staying at the Hyatt French Quarter. While in transit, my aunt passed away, and I arrived at the hotel soon after learning about her death.  I was distraught and out of it, and even though the hotel …

I’m a huge Mlife fan and always have a difficult choice in hotels when going to Vegas. This trip, I was pretty certain where I wanted to go. Okay, not the real beach, but the beach at the Mandalay Bay. I packed up and left Virginia, where a massive Nor’easter was …

Er, or until the day of your checkout time. The New York Times has an interesting piece on the hotel that inspired the Shining. Stephen King stayed at the Stanley Hotel and had a nightmare there that resulted in the Shining. The article doesn’t mention what was in his dream, but I …

I’ve stayed at Club Carlson properties a bunch in the past.  I even got married in one (The New Rochelle Radisson). And I tend to stay at their Country Inn & Suites when staying around the general Virginia area.  And I usually stay half on points, half paying cash. Recently, …

If you’ve been in an Alaska Air lounge before, you know the magic that is made-to-order pancakes. It’s like magic. Holiday Inn Express, and it’s apparent spokesperson for late-night munchies, Rob Riggle, are hawking the pancakes, avaliable through the end of August. From their Facebook page: Pancakes at Night! Every night, …

This video is from about ten years ago, but it’s been going around again and some friends have linked me to it again. In an undercover investigation, the group set up undercover cameras to see what happened when the dirty dishes were left out. Apparently not much–in a bad way. …

About a few years ago, I decided to start applying the lemon law to my hotel stays. The lemon law, originally conceived, provides “a remedy for purchasers of cars and other consumer goods in order to compensate for products that repeatedly fail to meet standards of quality and performance.”  (Thanks, …

I’m going on a cruise that goes to port in Puerto Vallarta for two days–from noon until 3pm the next day. There are all-inclusive beach options that cost about $100 per person per day. But when looking at the Hyatt Ziva there, a room for four people costs $500. (For …