Vegas is fine until you get tired of Vegas. Or when you need Vegas to not be Vegas at all, but just another city you are in for business. That’s why I’m a regular at The Westin Las Vegas Hotel, Casino & Spa (formerly The Westin Casuarina Las Vegas Hotel). Arrival I arrived in a…
I stayed last night at the Westin Los Angeles Airport. It was a comfortable place to be for a Thursday night stay. I was able to return my rental car (after picking up a bottle of wine at BevMo), get takeout from The Daily Grill downstairs, and was up in my room in time for…
I hate early morning drives to the airport. Sometimes its much easier to stay overnight at an airport hotel and avoid the risk of missing my flight due to traffic. That was my aim when I booked a stay at the Sheraton Grand Hotel DFW Airport. Arrival I knew that hotel was wrapping up a…
Occasionally I procrastinate when booking a hotel. My luck is such that I somehow time these episodes when there are major events in town and I am left with a limited range of options to pick from that don’t require me to donate a kidney. That is how I ended up at the Sheraton Atlanta…
Once in a while, I like to imagine what it would be like to be back in the world of my earlier days in consulting – the ones where my project work had me often spending one or more weeks in the same city so that I had some sense of being anchored each day…
No wonder my purse is always so heavy. I pulled the last three weeks of room keys out of a side pocket this morning and realized I’ve got a lot more catching up to do! I don’t seem to be making any headway and I have another 3-4 stays in the next ten days. But fear…
In March 2015, watch for Starwood headquarters to relocate to India as part of a month-long cultural immersion program. During the program, executives from the company will live and conduct business from Mumbai and Delhi in an attempt to better understand the culture and the needs of travelers visiting the growing business community. Starwood has previous…
Another day, another airport hotel. Sometimes it feels like Groundhogs Day around here. But then something happens that snaps me out of my airport hotel funk… that thing most recently was the Westin Atlanta Airport. Arrival After a shuttle wait at the airport’s ground transportation stop that was anything but chivalrous, I boarded the…
For me, some hotels will always be places where I primarily sleep, no matter the purpose of my trip. Doing hotel reviews for properties like this becomes a bit skewed when no matter what the purpose of my trip, I see the same things on the property each time. The Sheraton Sonoma County Petaluma, in…
Airport hotels. *sigh* From my recent reviews, you would think I lived in them. Oh wait, that is because I practically do. Alrighty then. The Sheraton Cleveland Airport Hotel is another one of those properties where I’ve had a number of stays across several years. I love it for both its convenience (a short hop…
I’m the queen of my routine. I domestically fly (almost exclusively) American Airlines, US Aurways, and Alaska Airlines. If I stay at a chain hotel, its going to be of the Hyatt, Starwood, Marriott, or Hilton persuasion. And if I cruise, its likely to be on Seabourn. Because of that, I haven’t been one to…
The DFW Metroplex is geographically a very large area. That fact is something I regularly have to remind out of town friends when they visit. When I moved to Fort Worth seven years ago, many of them thought it was simply a matter of moving to a new neighborhood. It wasn’t. While my home airport…