Regular visitors isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation to this blog will know that Mevrouw T and I are not usually five star people. We normally ride our bikes to basic B Bs or sleep in mountain refuges. The places and the journeys between them are what interest us; a hotel is just somewhere to lay our heads, though we hope it s hygienic, comfortable isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation and not shared isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation with a football team on a post-season booze-up.
We sometimes feel intimidated by lobbies like the one pictured above, so it was nice to find that we were welcome, even when we hadn t visited a laundromat for a few days and our shoes were showing signs of wear.
That s the thing about top-class hotels. They are nice to people. It s called service and it s what keeps them on top. They greet you by your name and remember you in the morning. They go the second mile.
If it s not immoral or illegal, we ll do it for our guests, said Kathryn Day, director of hotel services at the Waldorf isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation Astoria. I couldn t think of any really tough request to put this to the test ( Get me an albino chihuahua by five o clock tomorrow ) but I believed the staff would attempt anything isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation on my behalf. Possibly for free.
If you offer a tip to the chap who carries isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation your bags into the Waldorf Astoria, it will be politely refused. They have a strict no tipping policy, though they pride themselves on their superb service. That suits us Aussies beautifully. It s not about the money, it s the potential social embarrassment of the tipping system that we want to avoid.
In the other classy establishments where tipping is allowed, staff were polite isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation enough to act surprised and appreciative of our modest contributions. Note to self: The tipping minefield is worth a blog post on its own.
The Four Seasons building is a massive tower, but it wasn t easy to find the entrance the lobby is on the seventh floor, above a few storeys of department store Bloomingdales. I guessed we were in the right place when a rather famous actor walked out the door no, I didn t get a photo and I m not saying isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation who. He s entitled to his privacy and as a guest of a classy hotel so am I.
The Four Seasons is tall enough isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation to have its own climate, so when the fog rolled in off the lake, the view was gone. The room was still very comfortable isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation of course and in the bathroom was a nice range of shampoos and skin care products. We were too classy to pinch them.
His passionate commitment to the modern lifestyle has been expressed through a series of pioneering concepts: The hotel as home away from home, the hotel as theater, cheap chic , lobby socializing , the indoor/outdoor lobby, the urban resort, and the urban spa.
The cafe/bar is called a library , furnished with books and newspapers, and packed in the afternoons as the after-work crowd drop in for a drink. The barista also does a very good coffee, a rare achievement in Chicago.
Yes, the name alone creates expectations, but this is not the original old-style New York hotel. This is a smart modern concern, opened in 2009 as the Elysian Hotel, and rebadged by the Waldorf Astoria in 2012. It is rated Chicago s number one hotel by TripAdvisor and Conde Nast, and who are we to argue? It s simply stunning.
Your correspondent isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation was the fortunate guest of the Four Seasons and Waldorf Astoria and received a press rate at the Public Hotel. He travelled isle of wight coach tours travel accommodation with the assistance of the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture.
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