"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
10/31/2019 at 12:07 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
10/31/2019 at 12:07 • Filed to: None | 1
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The problem with travel for a living is I’ve become either a hotel snob or a pragmatist. Any hotel has to cater to customer desires, and one of them is style. What is in, contemporary, has to be offered. The cust omer should open the door and think, “oh, alright!” But giving them a useful room? I think a great many places forget that step.
See that lamp between the beds? It’s on bright or off. Good luck not bothering anyone in the other bed if you just want to read. Waking up? BAM! FULL BRIGHT! no escape for your retinas.
But that’s just a small thing...
Enjoy a desk. Only deep enough for phone charging. I assume they mean a table for that purpose however there’s no chargers on or near the table for tablets/laptops/phones. A hotel room is for business travellers doing work just as much as families on vacation. I can’t spread anything out and there’s no surfaces to put anything on.....except the floor.
Nit picking? I’m in rooms a few times a week. A desk and outlets are necessary, especially if the name outside is Hyatt, Hilton, Sheraton.
Beware of trends. They can kill. Because nobody play tested this room design before offering it to the chains. I guess in the right place returning customers aren’t a concern. Sleep and get out .
Grey may be modern but the night before last night’s grey room was so dark it was suicidally dank. There has to be a color somewhere. At least I got some kind of dark maroon on those uncomfortable non- office chairs.
This is not usable. This is LAX.
benjrblant
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 12:30 |
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hospitality design is so disposable though. i fully understand your take, but sometimes it’s hard to sell a client on something that’s more expensive when it’s going to be gutted and renovated in 5 years.
Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 12:31 |
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Looks pretty contemporary, as you said. But again, if it’s not functional, then it serves no purpose. Do they expect you to just sit on the bed and do your work?
A little tip I learned form a buddy of mine, and something I’ve now done for years when travelling. Always pack a power strip with you. That way you can have the outlets you need, where you need it (usually)
Future next gen S2000 owner
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 12:32 |
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Fashion over function!
This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 12:35 |
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I’d just rearrange the furniture to suit me. Pull that table in front of the tv, toss a box spring on top and BAM, you’re an executive.
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Grindintosecond
> benjrblant
10/31/2019 at 12:37 |
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The 5 year cycle is an expected part of business expense. They’re banking on customers who are only there for tomorrow’s flight out. But they’re still gonna do emails and charge up.....
This is just cheap assedness overall.
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benjrblant
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 12:38 |
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yes, and yes.
lone_liberal
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 12:47 |
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My wife works for a hotel management company and they are forever at odds with the national chains about the mandatory decor. A lot of the time they are forced to buy substandard furniture for way too much money from the chains’ supplier (she thinks kick backs are the answer for that one) or are forced to totally redo their dining areas to incorporate the communal tables that absolutely nobody likes because some high priced consultant sold the chain on the idea. In short, the people who own and run those hotels don’t like that crap any more than you do.
ranwhenparked
> benjrblant
10/31/2019 at 12:48 |
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Not at the Greenbrier, they seem to operate on 70 year cycles.
Textured Soy Protein
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 12:48 |
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I don’t do much work travel but for personal travel, my wife is super insistent on in-room coffee makers. When we lived in Madison and visited Chicago periodically, there was one fancy downtown hotel that was very nice but instead of in-room coffee machines, they provided tokens for a free drink each morning at the fancy coffee shop in the lobby. She was like, “THEY WANT US TO GET DRESSED AND GO DOWN TO THE LOBBY TO GET COFFEE?!?!?!?!” So of course, I was the one who got dressed and went down to the lobby to get said free coffee.
functionoverfashion
> Future next gen S2000 owner
10/31/2019 at 12:58 |
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[grumpycat dot jpg]
slipperysallylikespenguins
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 13:02 |
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My company likes to put us up in Motel 6s or Super 8s. I’d kill just to have a room without stains everywhere and no odors.
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functionoverfashion
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 13:03 |
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My latest hotel nitpick is the last two rooms we stayed in, the TV was on when we came in the room. Why? I don’t care about your entertainment offerings, nor am I going to use the TV to browse local attractions, hotel amenities, whatever. Are the cleaners setting the TV like that, leaving them on all the time by default? Or are they turned on remotely/centrally when we check in? That at least would be clever, but the screen should say “Welcome to [whatever], Functionoverfashion!”
Oh and in one of those rooms, the bathroom door was just an opaque glass door on a roller, which, even when closed, left an inch gap all around it on the sides and bottom - it overlapped the wall, but was an inch away from said wall. I mean, it was just me and my wife, but like, you might as well leave it open.
USUSGTO1
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 13:03 |
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So far, t h is year, I have spent 200 plus nights in h otels - Hilton, Marriott, IHG, Wy ndham. All paid for by my employer. Each stay being 4-5 days. Unless I am on a matt r ess run. And my biggest expectation is a clean room. The more I pay (Category 4-5) at Hilton / Marriott the higher and stringent the expectation becomes .
Now when I go for vacation and spend my money / points, the expectations are on a different level all together.
haveacarortwoorthree2
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 14:12 |
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Staying at the Hermitage in Nashville tonight (it actually was one of the cheaper options downtown) - interested to see what it’s like. The St. Regis in Atlanta in a couple of weeks. Luckily, someone else is paying.
Longtime Lurker
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 15:15 |
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Charging demands are just as important to a family as they are to a business traveler. On our last vacation the four of us had 4 phones, 4 tablets, 1 GoPro, and 1 wireless headphones. Getting them all charged at once can be a problem.
itranthelasttimeiparkedit
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2019 at 17:02 |
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I fucking hate the no desk designs. I only travel a couple of days a month though.
Consultant?
Stef Schrader
> Grindintosecond
11/01/2019 at 03:53 |
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I am soooooooo over grey everything. Bring back color. Lots of it. Or even white can make a dark hole of a room look a lot bigger and less dismal than grey. Morrissey sang “everything is silent and grey” for a reason. Grey sucks, as do the adjacent sucks of beige and silver. Colors, people. More colors.