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hotel hallways: Waterfront Hotel, Oakland
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Before you get to the room, you have to walk down the hallway. Thursday, January 15, 2009. Waterfront Hotel, Oakland. The Waterfront Hotel is located at (in? Oakland, California's Jack London Square, which may cause you to immediately think of White Fang. Or The Call Of The Wild. But which is actually an urban-mall-ish attempt to make the Oakland waterfront a hip 'n' trendy place to hang and shop. The "Ahoy, Matey" motif continues with your key card holder:. Carries into the wallpaper behind your bed,.
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hotel hallways: June 2008
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Before you get to the room, you have to walk down the hallway. Sunday, June 29, 2008. Courtyard Los Angeles Century City/Beverly Hills. For a hotel cheek by jowl with Botox usage world headquarters, the CLACC/BH is very unpretentious. It's laid out a bit oddly, although that could be my misperception because I arrived at 2:30 am my time, after having flown in from Washington, DC following a meeting earlier that day. After staggering down a couple (? After a sum total of seven hours, I left my room,.
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hotel hallways: July 2008
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Before you get to the room, you have to walk down the hallway. Sunday, July 20, 2008. Hotel Monaco, Washington, DC. The short version of the post is this: The Hotel Monaco, DC, is in the lead for this year's prestigious Golden Hallway Award. This is a very groovy hotel. The hallways are nearly hallucination-generating in their stripey efflorescence. (The photo doesn't do the effect justice, I'm afraid to say). My room's windows were usable as viewing devices only by NBA starting centers. I wasn't interes...
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hotel hallways: December 2007
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Before you get to the room, you have to walk down the hallway. Monday, December 17, 2007. The Sheraton Annapolis Hotel. And so 2007 comes to a close, not with a bang but with a whimper. (I don't believe T.S. Eliot could've imagined a line of his poetry winding up in a blog about hotel hallways, do you? Check out the close-up view. That's not hound's tooth. It's hound's fang. Three: The oxymoronic sign on the fire exit door. Or is just something you're supposed to like? Ice, so I got all excited. As prest...
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hotel hallways: May 2008
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Before you get to the room, you have to walk down the hallway. Sunday, May 11, 2008. I had a return visit to the Sheraton Annapolis. When I checked in, the people welcoming me were very kind and solicitous. I actually felt a little guilty about dissing the place during an earlier stay. Part of my unusually forgiving frame of mind was that I'd just finished reading a really wonderful travel book, Shadow of the Silk Road. See earlier post, here. The lobby looked nice. One was the odd letter spacing in one ...
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hotel hallways: August 2008
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Before you get to the room, you have to walk down the hallway. Friday, August 1, 2008. Ashton Inn and Suites, Pensacola, Florida. The last hotel I stayed in (see below - the Hotel Monaco in DC) is the current front runner for Golden Hallway 2008. Ashton Inn and Suites is (are? The leading candidate for the Lead Hallway of 08. Connectivity issues aside, I would advise against selecting Ashton Inn and Suites. (This is really awkward. I keep wanting to write The Ashton Inn. Here are some photos of the stains.
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FIVE EASY STEPS TO YOUR NEXT WINE TASTING | Word about Wine
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Just another WordPress.com weblog. FIVE EASY STEPS TO YOUR NEXT WINE TASTING. June 3, 2007. The ritual of wine tasting is often taken to seriously by people who take themselves way to serious. it doesn’t have to be that way. Try these steps the next time it’s your job to taste the wine table-side at your favorite restaurant. I call this easy system the five S’s. It a general visual inspection. You’ll know when something is wrong. 5- “Savor” Drink it down and reflect.Did you like the wine&...As someone re...
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hotel hallways: The Marriott Hotel at George Bush Intercontinental Airport
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Before you get to the room, you have to walk down the hallway. Wednesday, January 7, 2009. The Marriott Hotel at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The family had a lovely vacation plan that was thrown into temporary disarray due to our inability to connect to the flight we needed to be on to get to our destination. Net result, we had to spend an unplanned night in Houston. More precisely, at the Houston Airport. One other thing. To get to our floor, we had to insert our key card. No matter ho...The M...
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hotel hallways: Golden Hallway Winner for 2008
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Before you get to the room, you have to walk down the hallway. Thursday, January 8, 2009. Golden Hallway Winner for 2008. I'm not quite as excited about my Golden Hallway Award winner this year. (Last year's winner, the Hotel Gault. In Montreal really knocked my socks off). This year, I had a little more trouble deciding on the champ. I wanted to give it to the Claremont. An award for its unspeakably filthy stair carpeting, but thought that might take the luster off this prestigious award. Hotel Monaco, ...
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