1: Do you sleep well the first night in a hotel?
2: Have you returned to the same hotel, and been recognized as a repeat customer?
3: What is the longest hotel stay you have had?
4: What is the nicest hotel you have stayed in?
5: Have you ever vowed to never return to a hotel?
My Answers:
1: Do you sleep well the first night in a hotel? No, that is why I try to avoid one-night-stands.
2: Have you returned to the same hotel, and been recognized as a repeat customer? The Hilton on the south bank of the Thames said, "welcome back" it had been over a decade between stays.
3: What is the longest hotel stay you have had? 7 nights.
4: What is the nicest hotel you have stayed in? A tie for this, the Langford in Chicago, and Fairmont in San Francisco - both were medical conferences - they stay at nice places.
5: Have you ever vowed to never return to a hotel? A few of them.
The photo was taken near the Hilton in London, in March 2020, we were there for one night to meet friends for dinner in London.
Please share your answers in the comments.
1. I sleep the sleep of the very contented dead every night in a hotel.
ReplyDelete2. Nope
3. I'm counting cruise ships as floating hotels, so 14 nights.
4. Any hotel that doesn't have mildewy Lysol smelling bathrooms. I'm not really picky. I like big beds and I cannot lie.
5. I vowed never to stay in any hotel that rate fewer than 3 stars. Mildew, Lysol again. This mostly applies to motels.
My idea of roughing it is a Holiday Inn
Delete"the sleep of the very contented dead" - Brilliant! I might have to steal that one.
DeleteI often sleep like that
Delete1: Do you sleep well the first night in a hotel? Sometimes.
ReplyDelete2: Have you returned to the same hotel, and been recognized as a repeat customer? Yes.
3: What is the longest hotel stay you have had? 6 weeks
4: What is the nicest hotel you have stayed in? A former private palace in Sevilla.
5: Have you ever vowed to never return to a hotel? Absolutely.
6 weeks is a long time
Delete1. Normally I sleep well wherever I am.
ReplyDelete2. No, and I would be very surprised if I was.
3. Two weeks in the Royal Jomtien Hotel in Pattaya, Thailand. It later went up in smoke with many deaths because of poor fire regulation adherence, locked fire external fire doors...the list was long.
4. I can't remember the name but it was a hotel in Dubai. It was true luxury and not expensive. It even had an English pub within, complete with a burning open fire place in 40 degree heat. The hotel was well chilled down to about 20 I think.
5. One in London. It doesn't pay to go too cheap, even if the exterior of hotel is very nice Georgian and in an excellent location. It was the early days of the internet and there weren't really interior photos of the broom closet we allocated to stay in. R exploded at the desk to the Polish staff and we were moved to a better room.
I insisted on being moved to a larger room in Paris, successfully.
Delete1: Do you sleep well the first night in a hotel? I get to sleep just fine but tend to wake up far too early.
ReplyDelete2: Have you returned to the same hotel, and been recognized as a repeat customer? No. My working life hardly ever involved hotels.
3: What is the longest hotel stay you have had? Six months in Bangkok
4: What is the nicest hotel you have stayed in? I would say The Luxe Manor in Kowloon, Hong Kong
5: Have you ever vowed to never return to a hotel? Yes a horrible little hotel in Marsaskala, Malta. Happily, I cannot recall its name.
Quoting old song lyrics, "if one night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble," what does six months do?
Delete1. Yes, because I'm usually tired from traveling.
ReplyDelete2. Yes, occasionally.
3. About 6 nights.
4. In Canada, Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise (legal conference). In Japan, a luxury hotsprings spa hotel in the mountains. Can't remember the name. Oh and there was this super fancy one in Seoul, South Korea too. (The advantages of going on a foreign trip organized by a bar association. Lawyers go first class, man.)
5. Oh yes, I've stay in my fair share of dives.
Japan and South Korea are on my wish list.
Delete1: Do you sleep well the first night in a hotel? If it's a nice hotel, yes.
ReplyDelete2: Have you returned to the same hotel, and been recognized as a repeat customer? I don't think so.
3: What is the longest hotel stay you have had? 10 days the last time I was in London.
4: What is the nicest hotel you have stayed in? Waldorf Astoria in New York.
5: Have you ever vowed to never return to a hotel? Many times.
I should splurge the next time we are in New York.
DeletePost my answer over on my blog.
ReplyDeleteWe stayed in a historic hotel at Lake Quinalt in Washington State, it was fun
Delete1. Depends on the day, hotel or setting outside. Normally yes.
ReplyDelete2. Yes. I spent a lot of time in DC and the (former) Doubletree on Rhode Island knew me well.
3. 4-5 days in multiple cities. Never longer than that.
4. It was probably in Paris. But the Dupont Hotel in DC is nice, as is the Pendry or Suissehotel in Chicago.
5. Yes. Eventually the Doubletree in DC.
Paris is calling again.
Delete1: Do you sleep well the first night in a hotel? Often not as I am excited about the pending day,.
ReplyDelete2: Have you returned to the same hotel, and been recognized as a repeat customer? Only the B&Bs, never the hotels.
3: What is the longest hotel stay you have had? The weeks leading to buying a house here in AZ.
4: What is the nicest hotel you have stayed in? I have a vague memory of a place in Vancouver but I don't recall now 'why'
5: Have you ever vowed to never return to a hotel? Yes.
I have to think that weeks get old in a hurry
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