Evening Box!

I have it on pretty good authority that CO's 787 will be ETOPs 330 and that the AKL route is all but the real deal. :)

I once had a client that had a $33.50/day meal limit. I kid you not.

And the day I spent $33.63, I did hear about it from them. Never mind the fact that the other days of that trip I was always below $30. I was tempted to tape a dime and three pennies to a piece of paper and mail it back to their business office with a note of apology since apparently that 13¢ was going to bankrupt them.

This is the same client, years ago, who also put me up in a room on campus that had no heat in the dead of winter, and the room also had a toilet that wouldn't flush.

But what about the seat layout? :D:-:

Okay, time to grab a couple of hours of sleep before I get up to head toward IAH and onward to OKC.

Peace out B:rolleyes:X

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Colpuck is:

a) going to sleep
b) watching a movie
c) playing call of duty
d) entering a poker tournament at a casino where there was a shooting last week.

Agreed.

Sad thing is that when I first entered the world of frequent business travel a decade ago (damn, has it really been 10 years???), Hilton's program was truly one of the best. Even Hilton Gold was like winning the lottery, with almost endless upgrades, free breakfasts all the time, and tons of bonus points. Since 2002 or so it's been a slow slide down, with continued increases in the number of points required for awards, complete elimination of some of the best awards, fewer bonuses, and elimination of some of the unique ways to earn points. I never get a bad room with Hilton, and upgrades aren't often a big deal to me (honestly, I don't expect much out of a Hampton Inn that has basically one class of room), but the constant devaluation of the points really irks me.

Hilton seriously needs to look at the stay patterns of some of us who are really long-time elites in that program. I'd gladly show them statements from their competitors that show me going from being almost exclusively a Hilton customer 10 years ago to giving most of that business to other hotel companies today. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. It's thousands of dollars of revenue a year they've lost from me. And it's not like I don't spend close to 300 nights a year in hotels, so losing a big chunk of my business is not insignificant.

Victoria isn't all that exciting.

You should fly there. There's no OnePass miles in driving.

I'm beginning to wonder why half the Alofts I've stayed in this year have not had functional wired Internet connections in the room. The jack is there, but it's either not connected, or in the case of the Houston location, it's connected but won't work.

Here in San Antonio it's just dead.

Come on, Starwood, your attention to detail is slipping here.

And they still are using light bulbs in the lamps that are too big, and hang out of the shade, causing a blinding glare if you're trying to work at the desk with the lamp on.

Again, details. Attention to them makes your guests happy.

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Probably because very few people use it.

Then why bother installing it?

It's still a more reliable connection than Wi-Fi often is in hotels. I travel with a very small Wi-Fi router I can plug into the wired connection in the room, giving me a much better connection that the hotel's Wi-Fi usually is. It also allows me to share a single connection between my computer and phone when in a hotel with paid Internet connections.

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It probably worked when they installed it, just no one bothered to report that it no longer does in some places. It is poor form to have so many broken connections though.

Yep. Although I'm convinced at the Houston location it never was connected correctly. I've stayed in about 15 rooms in that hotel, which just opened last fall, and it has never worked in any of them.

Guess I'll e-mail Starwood about it.

Nite or is it morning Box, I've hit FIT, nap or just crawl onboard tomorrow's new line

anywho, somebody take notes whilst I'm gone. ELH bound until 6/22

Adios
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It's morning here and I'm debating what time to go to teh aeropuerto.

You will arrive only a second or two later;)