Hence this weeks Sunday Five, hotel rooms.
1: Have you ever been upgraded to a suite?
2: What is the largest hotel room you have ever stayed in?
3: Tell us about the worst hotel room you have stayed in?
4: What one element from staying hotels would you most like to have at home?
5: Have you ever taken a "souvenir" from a hotel stay?
My answers:
1: Have you ever been upgraded to a suite? Several times.
2: What is the largest hotel room you have ever stayed in? The presidential suite at the Holiday Inn in Louisville Kentucky, about 1,000 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, wet bar, marble floors and wall to wall, floor to ceiling windows. I was there one night, and I was staying alone on a work trip.
3: Tell us about the worst hotel room you have stayed in? Microtel in Beckley West Virginia, I killed a bed bug.
4: What one element from staying hotels would you most like to have at home? Daily maid service.
5: Have you ever taken a "souvenir" from a hotel stay? I have a "couple" of "Do Not Disturb Signs."
Please share your answers in the comments.
1. Yes, at the Fairmont in Toronto. I'd hate to see what we would have been in if not for the upgrade.
ReplyDelete2. I can't remember the name of the hotel but it was in Dubai.
3. A hotel in Saigon where the bedside radio was a car radio that didn't work anyway, and the shower over bath drained out of a hole punched in the side of of bath and the water drained to a floor drain.
4. Quality shampoo and conditioner.
5. I don't now but in the past I have taken quality shampoo and conditioner from hotels.
The joys of traveling in interesting places.
Delete1: Have you ever been upgraded to a suite? Yes
ReplyDelete2: What is the largest hotel room you have ever stayed in Most recently, The Whitby In New York.
3: Tell us about the worst hotel room you have stayed in? Too long a story and list to mention here. But it was appalling. It was in Durham. We took pictures too. We should have known the jig was up when we checked in and the guy had but one tooth and wouldn't let us leave. We reported it with pictures to their corporate office. A week later we got unlimited stays for a year. Thanks goodness across the street was a Hilton.
4: What one element from staying hotels would you most like to have at home? The maid service.
5: Have you ever taken a "souvenir" from a hotel stay? Same. At a b&B on Fire Island I took a Do Not Disturb. It read Booty Call In Progress! I had to have it!!!!!
You do have hot and cold running houseboys, don't you?
Delete1: Have you ever been upgraded to a suite? Yes
ReplyDelete2: What is the largest hotel room you have ever stayed in? Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, 2004. I think it was 1,850 sq ft. Three jacuzzi tubs (one for 6-8 people). Gorgeous.
3: Tell us about the worst hotel room you have stayed in? Spearfish, South Dakota, 1984. Best Western, I think. Honeymoon Suite. Green shag carpets so deep we wouldn't go barefoot, afraid of what was hiding in there. Mirrored walls and ceiling. Orange and pink were the colors, including pseudo-canopy bed. Sliding glass doors to enter. Bathroom was a dumpy motel bathroom. Hideous, cheap, tacky, hilarious.
4: What one element from staying hotels would you most like to have at home? Maid service.
5: Have you ever taken a "souvenir" from a hotel stay? If they use good "product," I will take soap, shampoo, etc. But, no, I'ver never stolen anything, although I come from a long line of hotel thieves. My mother had dozens of towels with hotel names on them, ash trays, you name it. My sister stole the key to her hotel room in Athens in 1970. It was huge and brass and she liked it.
Sounds more like the nightmare suite.
ReplyDelete1: no
ReplyDelete2: my ex-husband and I - a large weird shaped hotel room with ONE window and a large soaking tub that we did not use
3: my ex-husband and I - watkins glen NY and boone NC; both places reminded me of the bates motel
4: room/maid service
5: bathroom toiletries only
Perhaps Maddie can help us find maids?
ReplyDelete1: yes I have
ReplyDelete2: felt the size of a football field
3: some joint in downtown Boston; we felt obliged to put the dresser in front of the door.
4: daily making the bed.
5: I take the used soap cakes but not the unused ones.