{"id":491,"date":"2006-01-18T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=491"},"modified":"2006-01-18T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T03:57:00","slug":"good-hotels-and-bad-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Good Hotels and Bad Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my travels, I&#8217;ve stayed at good hotels and bad hotels. I have fond memories of the good ones, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westwardlook.com\/\">Westward Look<\/a> in Tucson, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mclean.hilton.com\/\">McLean Hilton<\/a> in Mclean VA, and even last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/marriott.com\/property\/propertypage\/TUSUP\">University Park Marriott<\/a> in Tucson. I remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claremontresort.com\/\">Claremont<\/a> in Oakland, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorianinn.com\/\">Victorian Inn<\/a> in Monterey, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiltonelconquistador.com\/\">Hilton El Conquistador<\/a> in Tucson, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aladdincasino.com\/\">Aladdin<\/a> in Las Vegas NV.&nbsp; All business travel.<\/p>\n<p>Then there were the bad ones: The Guest Quarters in Linthicum (since changed ownership), where there was glass on the floor. The Best Western somewhere near DC that had fire drills at 2am. The <a href=\"http:\/\/alexispark.com\/\">Alexis Park<\/a>, where the plumbing didn&#8217;t work. <\/p>\n<p>This week, I&#8217;m in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ichotelsgroup.com\/h\/d\/hi\/1\/en\/hd\/rkvmd\">Holiday Inn Select<\/a> in Bethesda MD. My opinion: Feh! Yes, it is clean. So what&#8217;s bothering me? Glad you asked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are repainting or revarnishing the stairwells. This is filling the hotel with such wonderful fumes. I let the manager know; he didn&#8217;t seem bothered by it.\n<li>The hotel provides free wireless. However, even though the connection is strong, it isn&#8217;t stable. I&#8217;ll be in the middle of something, and then lose my network connection. This is a royal pain.\n<li>The hotel restaurant is overpriced&#8230; I mean their breakfast buffet was over $12, and it was nothing to write home about. But then again, rooms are over $189\/night, govt. rate.\n<li>Their parking garage is cramped and difficult to navigate.\n<li>(and adding insult to injury) Their toilets are low to the floor and have a high water level, meaning body parts that shouldn&#8217;t touch water&#8230;.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Luckily, this is my last night. I head home tomorrow. As for the hotel, it is evidently going to get a major makeover. I found this out from a sign on the door of the (former) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtclubofbethesda.com\/\">Yacht Club of Bethesda<\/a>, which was housed in this hotel until last weekend. According to their sign, there has been a change of ownership, resulting in enormous re-modeling plans ($14 -15 million), and re-branding of the hotel from a Holiday Inn to a Doubletree. Their location within the hotel will become part of the expanded garage parking and much wider new exit to the street.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I would have rather been at the Marriott. I guess they couldn&#8217;t get government rate. Hopefully next weeks hotel (I&#8217;ll be in Santa Maria, CA at the end of the week) will be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my travels, I&#8217;ve stayed at good hotels and bad hotels. I have fond memories of the good ones, such as the Westward Look in Tucson, the McLean Hilton in Mclean VA, and even last year&#8217;s University Park Marriott in Tucson. I remember the Claremont in Oakland, the Victorian Inn in Monterey, the Hilton El <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=491\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}