Preferred Hotel Chain

[ip241au]

Priority Club (Intercontinental, Candlewood, Hoilday Inns, Crowne Plaza, Indigo, Staybridge). 5000 points a night for some properties (properties change periodically) around the world.

http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/pc...points/us/hre/pointbreaks.html?rateCode=IVANI

 

[NCherches]

Preferred Hotel Chain?
And Embassy Suites -- very bottom of the list next to sleeping on the sidewalk. Those places suck. Whitetrash Weddings every weekend and mobs of illigit children roaming the halls....Manager bubba reception? again, mobs fighting for stale popcorn and warm Bud Light while their kids run wild and pee in the pool....no thanks....

Why do you think they have free cocktails every night Worth it to me!

 

[NCherches]

Preferred Hotel Chain?
And Embassy Suites -- very bottom of the list next to sleeping on the sidewalk. Those places suck. Whitetrash Weddings every weekend and mobs of illigit children roaming the halls....Manager bubba reception? again, mobs fighting for stale popcorn and warm Bud Light while their kids run wild and pee in the pool....no thanks....

Why do you think they have free cocktails every night Worth it to me!

 

[LegacyDriver]

Ugh, no thanks. Embassy Suites are very familiy-friendly, and no offense to the parents out there, but "familiy-friendly" and "crew rest accommodations" are mutually exclusive entities. Embassies are generally very loud, especially on the weekends. You can mitigate it somewhat with a high floor, but even that's no guarantee. And there's something about those walkways that scream "racetrack for children."

The last one I stayed at, in Greensboro, NC, had some kind of convention of nothing but 12-year-old girls. I'm stunned that all the glass in the hotel didn't shatter from the shrieking!

Never had a noise problem in an Embassy and I've stayed a ton of 'em.

Heck, you can close *TWO* doors. If you can hear noise through that you may wanna' go to work for the FBI. I'm just sayin'.

 

[LegacyDriver]

Nothing worse than driving by 3 great hotels in great locations to stay in some friggin Marriott to get pilot points...:angryfire

Yer full of it about most things my good friend but here you hit a home run.

I flew with this penguin shaped azzhat at my old gig who was a total Marriott WHORE. I'll just refer to him as "Slats."

Any way, we are in Florida on a fairly short overnight and good old Slats changes our hotel from one that is five mins from the airport to one that is three *HOURS* from the airport.

I kid you not.

As we are driving trying to find our way to the hotel I see all the signs on the highway advertising Holiday Inn, Worst Bestern, Hilton, etc. etc. etc..

"There's a hotel," I say.

"There's a hotel," I say.

"There's one," I say.

Finally he expodes.

"LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!! I REALIZE THAT YOU MAY NOT AGREE WITH THE DECISION TO STAY AT THIS HOTEL BUT THE DECISION HAS BEEN MADE! I'M THE PIC AND WE *WILL* BE STAYING AT THE MARRIOTT. PERIOD."

This being the same moron who listened to Rush Limbaugh on the ADF during taxi (missed a hold short in KIAD that I finally had to just say, "XXX is holding short of Hotel" to Ground in order to make him stop because he INSISTED we were cleared to Zulu), takeoff, and cruise. What a jackarse.

I'll stay in a hot sheet motel if it is close to the plane. Still like Embassy Suites though.

 

[CA1900]

Never had a noise problem in an Embassy and I've stayed a ton of 'em.

Guess you've had better luck than I have. The one in Teterboro is about the quietest one I've stayed in, which is fortunate, as I hit that one pretty frequently. But the open design of any Embassy lends itself to a high noise level. The plants help a little bit, but not a lot.

Heck, you can close *TWO* doors.

In most cases, that helps. But a lot of good that does you when four of the army-of-12-year-old-girls are in the bedroom nextdoor, shrieking their heads off at 11pm! Their parents helpfully got a separate suite. Grrrrrrrr....

 

[FurloughedAgain]

You're really obsessed with 12 year old girls... Anything you want to tell us.

(doh... so much for your Christmas present)

 

[LegacyDriver]

Guess you've had better luck than I have. The one in Teterboro is about the quietest one I've stayed in, which is fortunate, as I hit that one pretty frequently. But the open design of any Embassy lends itself to a high noise level. The plants help a little bit, but not a lot.

In most cases, that helps. But a lot of good that does you when four of the army-of-12-year-old-girls are in the bedroom nextdoor, shrieking their heads off at 11pm! Their parents helpfully got a separate suite. Grrrrrrrr....

Not calling you a liar.

Just never had the experience.

Like the guy implied, Manager's Reception does a lot for helping stop high noise levels.

 

[CA1900]

You're really obsessed with 12 year old girls... Anything you want to tell us.

Well, I did meet this guy in the lobby. Is that bad?

:laugh:

Like the guy implied, Manager's Reception does a lot for helping stop high noise levels.

Couldn't even get to it on that weekend from hell. It was literally three layers deep of kids getting (I sh*t you not) Shirley Temples from the bartender. It was a 20+ minute wait for a drink! That's inhumane.

 

[NCherches]

Couldn't even get to it on that weekend from hell. It was literally three layers deep of kids getting (I sh*t you not) Shirley Temples from the bartender. It was a 20+ minute wait for a drink! That's inhumane.

Thats why God gave you two hands... double fist it!

 

[BEfly]

Thats what I do. I also have an FO that doesn't drink and I'll make him go up there and grab 2 more. Managers give me the stink eye when I'm sitting there with 4 cocktails....love Embassy although some of the above statements are true.

Love all Hilton properties esp Double Trees (damn cookies) except the one in Little Rock that was falling apart and f'n haunted!

 

[Gulfstream 200]

Yer full of it about most things my good friend but here you hit a home run.


"LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!! I REALIZE THAT YOU MAY NOT AGREE WITH THE DECISION TO STAY AT THIS HOTEL BUT THE DECISION HAS BEEN MADE! I'M THE PIC AND WE *WILL* BE STAYING AT THE MARRIOTT. PERIOD."

Dont get me started LD! I been tossing you around these boards for years, I can still GET ER DONE....

:laugh:

I hear ya, I just dont get the Marriott thing...if its the best place to stay? SURE! - just hate to drive past better places just to get some sacred pilot points. Don't make me stay in a sacrificial place just because you are too cheap to rent your own car on your lameass yearly vacation with suzy and the 3 brats..

Especially INTL - Marriotts are quite often NOT the best place to stay. Grand Hyatts, St Regis, Ritz, etc are often far better, and are often equally priced. Also, some of the best places to stay are smaller 4-5 star hotels in ideal city locations. Sometimes it takes some research, outside of calling 1800marriott or 1800Universal, but if you are somewhere for a few days it can be well worth it and the service is usually much better.

Prying a dorky GEE850 (or whatever) pilot away from his beloved Marriott lounge is sometimes a very difficult procedure...

:laugh:

 

[Capt1124]

HGI is a bit nicer than Courtyard but either is fine with me. I have a bunch of Marriott points and I have this fantasy about being able to use them for a nice vacation someday.

Some Fairfields are OK but many are kind of run down. I was in the one near Teterboro last winter and the water wasn't hot.

I haven't been to the Secaucus Holiday Inn for years and I can't remember why I hate it but I would not want to go back there.

I think the hotel game is more avoiding a bad one than getting a good one. Close to the airport and not a dump are the crucial points.

 

[CA1900]

Thats why God gave you two hands... double fist it!

With those little petri dishes of beer, you have to!!

:beer:

 

[Thedude]

Especially INTL - Marriotts are quite often NOT the best place to stay. Grand Hyatts, St Regis, Ritz, etc are often far better, and are often equally priced.

You are prob the only person that I have ever seen that actually like the Hyatt properties. The only descent one I have stayed in was in Dubai (that one was $3000 night room), otherwise ALL of the Hyatt properties suck and are over-priced.

 

[NCherches]

Wait a minute... did Gulfstream 200 & Legacy Driver use to fly together?!?!

 

[LegacyDriver]

Dont get me started LD! I been tossing you around these boards for years, I can still GET ER DONE....

:laugh:

Yes, you are quite the "tosser" my man. LOL I kid.

I hear ya, I just dont get the Marriott thing...if its the best place to stay? SURE! - just hate to drive past better places just to get some sacred pilot points. Don't make me stay in a sacrificial place just because you are too cheap to rent your own car on your lameass yearly vacation with suzy and the 3 brats..

Especially INTL - Marriotts are quite often NOT the best place to stay. Grand Hyatts, St Regis, Ritz, etc are often far better, and are often equally priced. Also, some of the best places to stay are smaller 4-5 star hotels in ideal city locations. Sometimes it takes some research, outside of calling 1800marriott or 1800Universal, but if you are somewhere for a few days it can be well worth it and the service is usually much better.

Prying a dorky GEE850 (or whatever) pilot away from his beloved Marriott lounge is sometimes a very difficult procedure...

:laugh:

Yeah, and the sad thing is, these point lovers wind up costing the company so much money with their quirks that people wind up getting booted. (Not gonna' tanker cheap gas so I can get Atlantic Bucks, drive 3 hours for Marriott stay, etc.)

I've seen guys who would absolutely refuse to take the shuttle from Signature KIAD to the Marriott hotel two blocks away. So rent a car for $59 and drive it four blocks total round trip? Wow. That's smart.

Ugh.

 

[G100driver]

Hilton Whore all the way .. except when I know they suck. Like Asia.

I can use my points anytime anywhere with NO hassle. Hilton always treats me good.

 

[sleepy]

Hilton or Marriott properties. I like them both.

 

[FastestPA31Ever]

Having only been in the corporate arena for about 1.5 years, I got pretty excited about the Hilton/Marriott points in the beginning! My wife made fun of me the day my Diamond card arrived - I was like a little kid on Christmas. I've kind of gotten over it now. Our department has a "core group" of hotels that we try to stay in, with a few exceptions depending on availabity. Those are Hilton and Marriott and most of their family.

I do like Hyatt Place though. Very modern and comfortable with the huge flat-screens. We use the one in Secaucus often for day rooms.