The AC Golf Ball Soap
Oct 25, 2016, 6:23 pm
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The AC Golf Ball Soap
As a general rule, I like ACs. But I really do not like their soap. It is in my experience, the strangest hotel soap I've ever used. It tends to roll around and off the shelp and it feels really weird rubbing it on your body. What are they thinking with this stuff?
Oct 26, 2016, 6:43 am
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Trying to be different for difference's sake I would guess. I stayed at the Orlando AC 2 years ago and don't recall this, is it new or localized? Downright silly.
Oct 26, 2016, 7:10 am
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i've seen it in AC hotels in Italy, Spain and Portugal. i think it is distinctive, i kind of like it, even if i have to agree that a normal soap shape is better for practical use
Oct 26, 2016, 7:47 am
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I have enough trouble holding onto regular shaped soap...
Oct 26, 2016, 6:42 pm
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Oct 26, 2016, 8:56 pm
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The AC that just opened in downtown Minneapolis had the golf ball soap. I stayed there last week.
Oct 26, 2016, 10:22 pm
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The AC in National Harbor, MD had the golf balls back when I stayed earlier this year.
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Oct 26, 2016, 10:43 pm
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I'd take those over the fragrant and annoyingly slippery Thanh soaps at FS Marriotts.
Oct 27, 2016, 3:03 am
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I quite like the distinctive shape.. But my problem with the AC golfball is that I really struggle to get the ball to lather with respect to normal soaps..
On the subject of soaps, you must try the Stones in Bali. You get a new soap every day and each of them different. It was very nice. I brought home a collection that I still bring out for visitors
On the subject of soaps, you must try the Stones in Bali. You get a new soap every day and each of them different. It was very nice. I brought home a collection that I still bring out for visitors
Oct 27, 2016, 6:26 am
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I've stayed a couple times over the past year at The Henry in Dearborn, MI, and the soap there wasn't the golf ball. That's just weird...
Oct 27, 2016, 6:53 am
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The former is a "distinctive" select service brand, founded by Antonio Catalan, whose initials provide the name of the brand. The AC Hotels brand is not represented in Orlando or Dearborn.
The latter is Marriott's brand for "strikingly independent" full-service hotels. In Orlando, there are two Autograph Collection properties: Castle Hotel, Autograph Collection; and Grand Bohemian Hotel Orlando, Autograph Collection. In Dearborn, The Henry, Autograph Collection is the former Ritz-Carlton.
Oct 27, 2016, 7:56 am
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...Wow. You're absolutely right. That's not confusing at all.
(Preview isn't showing me the image I posted above, so here have a link.)
I hope that one of the things they do with the SPG merger is "clean up" their brand list.
-mvitale
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I hope that one of the things they do with the SPG merger is "clean up" their brand list.
-mvitale
Oct 27, 2016, 7:56 am
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My bad, thanks for clearing it up (although its clear as mud to a Marriott outsider). I stayed at the Grand Bohemian Hotel Orlando, Autograph Collection.
Oct 27, 2016, 8:20 am
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Oct 27, 2016, 3:40 pm
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I wonder how the golf ball soap would fly as a golf ball!
I did get the golf ball soap at a AC hotel in Madrid - quite liked it ( also had a pyramid shaped bar of soap at the Luxor las vegas)
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