several years ago, I was "forced" to live for 14 months in a 1-bed room suite at the Intercontinental in an undisclosed foreign city. Actually, my company was too cheap
to rent me a "real" apartment because it was cheaper to put me up at the hotel.

To be fair, this was a real nice hotel... what Intercontinental isn't? The room had a
mini kitchen and a couple of 50" LCD TVs. I have room service dinner 2 or 3 times
a week. Breakfast was also delivered by room service monday to friday. (all paid for
by my company) I also had access to the lounge which had free cocktails in the evenings.

You would think that I enjoyed my stay... NOT.... I started to feel like a goldfish after
a couple of months.