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Old Mar 13, 2007, 6:58 am
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Originally Posted by AZ Travels the World
If so, that seems kinda silly. Though perhaps no more silly than the brand's parent, W Hotels, and all their wonderful, whismical, wowsy crap.
Sometimes that crap isn't received as the marketing folks intend. At the end of my latest stay at a W, the front desk got a complaint note from me with a headline "What's Wrong?" and every issue emphasized with a W word. "Whatever, whenever" doesn't have a positive connotation in my mind.

Hopefully, the staff at aloft won't be so aloof. My vote would be to get rid of the "Aloha" stuff before it gets too integrated. Unless there's going to be a whole Hawaiian theme, it just sounds stupid to me. (And stupid is far worse than silly.)
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