And a nice :rolleyes: to you too :D

When we were in NRT , I got some serious :rolleyes: from my gf and my mom for suggesting Disney . I wanted to go and check it out and sing
its a small :rolleyes: after all .

Everything I've ever seen on it said it was going to not be affiliated with a major hotel company, which I think is a mistake. Regardless, it will be good for Lubbock to have another full-service hotel. Of the three or four that fall into that category now, the Embassy Suites is the only one worth spending a dime on. The two downtown are both ancient and, if it wasn't for travelers who just don't know any better, would have ceased to exist decades ago.

AKA the LBB Hamptons!

Thanks for the update. If I get back that way I should know more about the hotel as it is to have a similiar relationship as the Hilton at UH with the hospitality program at TTU.

I agree about the LBB downtown hotels. The only time I steped foot into the Holiday Inn was to use a dinner voucher from a CO flight knowing that the hotel was a redeemable location. I know, a little extreme to use my $10 or $12 meal voucher but got to take it when you can.

The best use of an airline meal vouchers is when I used them to buy some ground coffee at the coffee place near the E PC at IAH and the time I bought snacks at a store in the B Gates and brought home 3 or 4 water bottles to get the full use of the vouchers.

I am a Box Whore and a Voucher Whore. No meetings for me though!

Just got a txt from realtor. Need to be outta the house for a showing this evening from 7:45 to 8:15 pm. I think I might just have to go to the wine bar! Must be outta towners? Seems a bit late in the evening to be looking at houses.

You had better make sure that the Hilton upgrades you to a renovated room as a Gold - the unrenovated rooms are not very appealing. I have a photo somewhere of such a room that I should post. Don't let them try to upsell you to a renovated room, either - they should upgrade you as a Gold.

I wouldn't have even bothered with that. I would have gladly wasted a voucher versus walking through the front door of that place.

I spent two nights, and only two nights there, on one trip. That was two nights too many. I'll never forget complaining and having a manager come up to my room and tell me that there was nothing wrong with the fact that I had to kick my door as hard as I could to get it open because it was stuck, and that the shower was "clean" even though mildew was visible on about 25% of the tile grout, and the bathroom smelled moldy. Apparently he considered that smell to be "normal" for a clean bathroom. And this was after they "renovated" which it turns out was probably nothing more than new mattresses and comforters. And there were other issues too, but that's just the short version.

Awful place. Truly awful. And a coworker of mine who is for some ridiculous reason an enormous fan of Priority Club always stayed there saying "It's not that bad, and they upgrade me to the top floor." Big deal. He would have probably been far better off at the Staybridge Suites across from the campus on 19th.

Unfortunately the powers that be at Texas Tech seem to think the "nice" places in that city are that particular Holiday Inn, the La Quinta that's right in the middle of the construction on Brownfield Highway (although the freeway construction right there isn't so bad now), and the old Hampton. Nobody there seems to have noticed there are much newer, nicer hotels that offer rooms at the same state rate in town. :rolleyes: Fortunately they never balked too much at me staying elsewhere once I figured out I could do it and get away with it.

What free breakfast at HGI? I've noticed HGI's can have two different beds in the same place. The better floors have better beds. I once got stuck a non-better floor which looked identical to the rooms I normally had on the property but the bed was not as nice.

Agree about the new HI's vs. the older ones. The free internet at both HI and HGI's are a great thing.

Nice, all this hotel talk and Marriott sends me an e-mail to vote for them in the Freddies.

That is exactly right. I stayed at the Hilton Narita during my last trip to Japan. It is a 10-15 minute bus ride from the airport, depending on which terminal you are going to, then you have to wait for the NRT express train, which then takes an hour to get to central Tokyo Station, where you would have to go to catch most of the intercity trains. The only reason to stay at NRT would be if you had an early morning flight to catch (as I did) and did not want to deal with a nearly two-hour commute to NRT in the morning, or if you arrived at NRT late in the evening and did not plan to go into Tokyo until the next day.

Free for Golds/Diamonds at HGI. Omelette Station, make-your-own waffles, yoghurt, fruit, cereal, and other standard fare.

Really? Every HGI I've stayed in since they changed to the new bedding a few years ago has had the same bed. Maybe your's was still going through the transition? Or maybe the adjustment on the second bed was off (that weird little comfort adjustment dial the HGI beds have)?

As for free breakfast at HGIs, it does exist, if you're a Gold or Diamond HHonors member and select it as your VIP benefit. I never select it, as I can expense breakfast on work trips. The 750 point option is better.

I just stayed at HGI , and the breakfast was pretty good,
It was not free for me because Im Hilton Blue only , but for 8 bucks it was not bad at all .

I never got free breakfast as Gold and they greeted me by name when I walked through the door before reaching the desk every Sunday night. :mad: I'll take it the breakfast was instead of the newspaper? I was expensing it anyway so who cares.

Edit: Or was free breakfast instead of the coupons for stuff at the little snack thingy behind the front desk?

Come on CO! Match that WN sale! At the very least run that apparently-one-off $198 DCA-SLC rt through all of July. I don't want to fly into LAS then drive 6 hours with a 2yo...