There are great room, good rooms, and then there are the truly horrible.  We all love the great ones, get by with the good ones, but no one should be stuck with a truly horrible room.  What do you do when that’s the one that you’re sent off to?
Last Friday night, I arrived in Las Vegas, caught a cab, and was off to my hotel, arriving there 10:30 pm.  I had a reservation at a major hotel, and my credit card had already been charged for one night.  At the front desk, I was told that I could have a …read more

Scoring an upgrade at a hotel can be done, and often it is more about being polite and gracious rather than about an Andrew Jackson crossing the palms of the front desk clerk.
Here are a few things to keep in mind when looking for that FREE hotel room upgrade:

Manners are everything.  You’ll find a front desk clerk will be more likely to pass on an upgrade if you are polite, gracious, and engage in a bit of small talk.  A polite good afternoon, how are you will go a long way to starting the conversation off on the right …read more

October’s travel poll was about the most appreciated hotel room amenity.
In the original description of the poll, I made mention of the fact that I was deliberately NOT including in-room FREE internet access.  However, because many of you did not see that initial post, internet access was added as a choice in the poll.  That was my error in not explaining the options more carefully.
In reporting on the results, I’ve taken it out of the answers, even though I know this may skew the results a bit.
Here’s what you had to say about what you like in your hotel room:

Upscale …read more

The days of having a metal key with your hotel room number engraved into it are long gone.
Keys these days aren’t even keys.  They are flimsy pieces of plastic, about the size of a credit card), and instead of having a room number on it, it has a pretty photo of your hotel along with operating instructions about how to insert it into an electronic reader on your room door. 
The plastic key usually comes tucked into a small envelope, or a larger folder, with the room number written on it.  But the larger envelope or folder is often …read more