We went to Boston. It was a nice trip maybe a 2 hour drive and we stayed in a nice hotel “Doubletree” I believe was the name. 821 Washington St., which is smack dab in the middle of chinatown. The part of Boston our hotel was in was basically a mecca for old asian women. Every block was littered with them, damn they walk slowly, I was pushing a stroller like MOVE PEOPLE! Boston overall is a really nice town, they have a well developed bay area with an aquarium, and above all for geeks like me, an IMAX theatre. The boy pretty much slept the entire time. We walked along the docks, he slept. We went to the aquarium, he slept. We went to Legal Seafood (legendary seafood resturaunt), he slept. I only have two things to bitch about and both are about the hotel, not the town.
1. WiFi (you know this is a big one for me), they advertised wireless internet access and granted they didn’t say it was free $10 a day is OK for one day but what if I had stayed a week. $70 just so I can have something that is essential to my work would have really pissed me off, and in fact I would have probably just chosen a hotel that advertised free wireless internet access even if the the per night cost balanced it out. For me it’s the principal. It’s 2005, thats like not taking credit cards, fine for some slumlord, but a decent hotel c’mon.
2. Checkout is at noon, while checkin is at 4:00 pm. This may be industry standard but what WTF? Made up scenario:
I fly from N.Y.C. to L.A., and get to L.A. at noon. I now have to wait in the lobby for four hours until 4:00 pm after I just took a six hour flight. Then in the morning I have to be out of there by noon, or pay for another night. So I pay for 24 hours, and I get 20, nice. Somethings wrong here.