Embassy Suites Limits Receptions
Oct 12, 2023, 12:52 pm
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Embassy Suites Limits Receptions
This may be old, but it is news to me. Business trip companion booked us into an Embassy Suites. The evening reception has been reduced to 1.5 hours from 2, and there is now a 2-drink limit. Wow. More cuts. I convinced my companion to stay at a different hotel that is more convenient and cheaper.
Oct 12, 2023, 1:04 pm
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This may be old, but it is news to me. Business trip companion booked us into an Embassy Suites. The evening reception has been reduced to 1.5 hours from 2, and there is now a 2-drink limit. Wow. More cuts. I convinced my companion to stay at a different hotel that is more convenient and cheaper.
Oct 12, 2023, 1:34 pm
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That's very disappointing. Embassy suites are pricier than other hotels for a very similar room. The differentiating factor for me was the nightly reception and the good breakfast. Hopefully they at least have the good breakfast but that's not enough to get me to stay there.
Oct 12, 2023, 1:54 pm
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I guess it is two tickets per adult staying in the room. Don't know if they care if you use your roommate's tickets if they don't want a drink. But now with all these restrictions, and feeling like I want to get around them, I feel like I am in kindergarten. Back to Hampton. Breakfast is not as good, but it is a lot cheaper and am treated as an adult.
Oct 12, 2023, 3:09 pm
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It's been years since I've been in an Embassy that had a reception that was good enough to care about. Some are 2 drink tickets, some are theoretically unlimited, but it's been absolute crap wine and beer for years so to me it hardly matters.
10 years ago, you'd occasionally get ES that had a good local beer on tap plus hot food. Now it's chips, ballpark nacho cheez, and pretzels.
I still like ES when we're traveling with kids, but only if it's cheaper than other suite brands that can sleep 4 comfortably.
10 years ago, you'd occasionally get ES that had a good local beer on tap plus hot food. Now it's chips, ballpark nacho cheez, and pretzels.
I still like ES when we're traveling with kids, but only if it's cheaper than other suite brands that can sleep 4 comfortably.
Oct 12, 2023, 3:37 pm
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It's been years since I've been in an Embassy that had a reception that was good enough to care about. Some are 2 drink tickets, some are theoretically unlimited, but it's been absolute crap wine and beer for years so to me it hardly matters.
10 years ago, you'd occasionally get ES that had a good local beer on tap plus hot food. Now it's chips, ballpark nacho cheez, and pretzels.
I still like ES when we're traveling with kids, but only if it's cheaper than other suite brands that can sleep 4 comfortably.
10 years ago, you'd occasionally get ES that had a good local beer on tap plus hot food. Now it's chips, ballpark nacho cheez, and pretzels.
I still like ES when we're traveling with kids, but only if it's cheaper than other suite brands that can sleep 4 comfortably.
Oct 12, 2023, 3:39 pm
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This has been the case at the ES locations that I know of for quite some time now. Independent of that, at some point in my life (maybe I...matured?!), I came to see the ES reception as more of a nuisance than an upside. My mental image of this has coalesced through experience to basically being one of hundreds of youth sports participants running around throwing tortilla chips everywhere while the dads guzzle gallons of light beer. No thanks!
Oct 12, 2023, 3:44 pm
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Well I have not had the "sporting" experience you have had, and if I did, I would find it annoying as heck as well. This whole reduction in reception time and beverages is new to me, as I have not stayed at ES in a long time.
Oct 12, 2023, 5:58 pm
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The last ES I stayed at had some really pathetic swill available for the “managers reception”. We ended up going to their pool side bar and paying for drinks. The breakfast was a freaking zoo.
that ship has sailed for me
that ship has sailed for me
Oct 12, 2023, 6:22 pm
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Oct 12, 2023, 6:29 pm
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This has been the case at the ES locations that I know of for quite some time now. Independent of that, at some point in my life (maybe I...matured?!), I came to see the ES reception as more of a nuisance than an upside. My mental image of this has coalesced through experience to basically being one of hundreds of youth sports participants running around throwing tortilla chips everywhere while the dads guzzle gallons of light beer. No thanks!
Avoid them in the summer, weekends, spring breaks, fall breaks at all costs.
The manager reception has been swill for the past few decades.
Oct 12, 2023, 7:39 pm
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Receptions have been greatly reduced in quantity, quality, and frequency since COVID. I haven't seen one this year at any ES. There's a HS I frequent that only has "receptions" one night a week. The food offerings are usually nacho chips and cheese, crudités, and 2-oz pours of Miller Light.