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icurhere2 Feb 19, 2010 10:27 am


Originally Posted by jrzyshawn (Post 13420820)
Don't forget about this hotel...

It's slightly less awful now than when it was the San Remo, although the San Remo had one of the best prime rib specials in town.

belynch Feb 19, 2010 10:29 am

For all you keeping score at home, it's official Hilton.com is the worst travel related e-commerce site of all major brands.

icurhere2 Feb 19, 2010 10:31 am

I just got a mass e-mail announcing a luncheon. Today. In 30 minutes. The ability to pre-plan apparently is :rolleyes:

icurhere2 Feb 19, 2010 10:34 am


Originally Posted by belynch (Post 13421702)
For all you keeping score at home, it's official Hilton.com is the worst travel related e-commerce site of all major brands.

I've heard the same pronouncement from some of the Hilton mega-elites in teh Box.

cheepneezy Feb 19, 2010 10:39 am


Originally Posted by Brituchenite (Post 13420698)
On the short list so far are: mandalay bay, Paris, Venetian. Will also look at Marriott Chateau and Treasure Island.

But, if the airfares keep climbing at the rate they are, it's back to Plan A and drive to Florida.

I still vote for the wave pool at Mandalay bay. :D.

And hiking at Red Rocks could be fun.

Teh Box is looking rather trapezoidal after the eye drops I had put in this morning. :rolleyes:;)

icurhere2 Feb 19, 2010 10:41 am


Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 13421788)
Teh Box is looking rather trapezoidal after the eye drops I had put in this morning. :rolleyes:;)

Did you do dilation? I ordered dinner with a touch-screen kiosk after I had this done in 2005 - ended up with a burger on a pretzel roll and velveeta when I got home :(

Olton Hall Feb 19, 2010 10:50 am


Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 13420477)
The gorges in Ithaca have claimed another victim. In this case the guy was a pledge at my fraternity there. Very, very, very strange to be as close to it as I am, and I am very, very removed from things there these days.

It ashame to hear another person buckled under the pressure.

cheepneezy Feb 19, 2010 10:56 am


Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 13421805)
Did you do dilation? I ordered dinner with a touch-screen kiosk after I had this done in 2005 - ended up with a burger on a pretzel roll and velveeta when I got home :(

That doesn't sound too different from some of your other combos. ;):D

icurhere2 Feb 19, 2010 10:58 am


Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 13421922)
That doesn't sound too different from some of your other combos. ;):D

I am neither a Velveeta nor pretzel roll fan.

sbm12 Feb 19, 2010 10:59 am


Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 13421461)
I'd be curious to see how much the suicide rate deviates from the average at American universities or whatever...or whether it's more the fact that a larger percentage of the suicides there happen in an extremely dramatic/high-profile manner.

My recollection is that it is the latter. Those bridges and gorges really make for spectacular stories, both good and bad.

Originally Posted by windwalker (Post 13421393)
Shouldn't Hotels with the word Airport in their title be required to have shuttle service?

Inquiring minds want to know

I believe so. I also believe that said shuttle service should be in operation in time to get customers to the earliest flights operating out of the hotel, at least on a request basis. I was quite annoyed when my hotel stay at BWI the other day when my overnight rate increased by ~$30 due to said lacking.

cheepneezy Feb 19, 2010 11:02 am


Originally Posted by Brituchenite (Post 13420911)
Well, then, that explains it. :D:D:D

Personally, I am very clean in the bathroom. But, I have to say, I am often disgusted at the state of the women's public lavatories that I have to frequent when I am out of my house.

I mean, really, is it THAT difficult to wipe the seat and flush the loo when you're done.

Seriously, I've been in NPS outhouses 30 miles in the middle of nowhere that are cleaner than 'civilized' public bathrooms. I'm talking to you Sloatsburg Thruway rest stop.

icurhere2 Feb 19, 2010 11:02 am


Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 13421943)
I believe so. I also believe that said shuttle service should be in operation in time to get customers to the earliest flights operating out of the hotel, at least on a request basis. I was quite annoyed when my hotel stay at BWI the other day when my overnight rate increased by ~$30 due to said lacking.

Were the service hours advertised? Hyatt Place BNA (a Park-and-Fly option) has an arrangement to have private cars transport customers in the earliest part of the morning, until they get the staff present in house to operate the shuttle.

carsonheim Feb 19, 2010 11:12 am

silly question about codeshares with UA:

booked a flight on CO.com that has 2 outbound segments and one return segment on "Continental flight xxxx operated by United Airlines."

when making the res I was able to select seats (in the back of the plane :rolleyes: ), but the selections didn't stick. I have no seat assignments.

1) will a call to the elite line allow me to get seats?
2) since these are CO flights "operated by UA" where does that push me to in the EUA queue?

one would *think* that since they are CO flight numbers, I should have access to the same seat selection/EUA as other CO flights, but that would be to logical ...

Thanks for any insight!!!!

belynch Feb 19, 2010 11:16 am


Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 13421788)
I still vote for the wave pool at Mandalay bay.

The location of Man Bay is too :rolleyes: for me.
When I was working on a project south of the city we stayed there as it was a little more reputable than the Station casino near the project site and it gave us access to the Strip with an easy egress.

I would never stay there on a leisure trip though. That's just me.


Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 13421965)
Hyatt Place BNA (a Park-and-Fly option) has an arrangement to have private cars transport customers

Somewhere in BNA proper an insurance agent just plotzed himself.

In other news, when it rains :rolleyes: it pours. I'm now booked on that 530am EWR - IAH flight two times within 6 days. :mad::mad::rolleyes: That's just cruel and unusual.

icurhere2 Feb 19, 2010 11:19 am


Originally Posted by belynch (Post 13422044)
In other news, when it rains :rolleyes: it pours. I'm now booked on that 530am EWR - IAH flight two times within 6 days. :mad::mad::rolleyes: That's just cruel and unusual.

I wouldn't say unusual with this crowd - probably cruel but not unusual.


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