Preferred Hotel Chain

[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.

 

[G100driver]

I was excited when I got my diamond card too .. now I scorn it!

 

[NCherches]

I still flaunt the Diamond Card... especially when I walk to the Embassy for happy hour from the Hampton Inn across the street. Keep those room keys guys!

 

[CopilotDoug]

I enjor Hiltons. By the way, what the F**k is up with that Radisson in Peoria, IL? Not only is it a dump, I'm pretty sure I heard someone get shot outside in that street.

 

[FastestPA31Ever]

I still flaunt the Diamond Card... especially when I walk to the Embassy for happy hour from the Hampton Inn across the street. Keep those room keys guys!

Now that's Gangsta

 

[ksu_aviator]

I've been staying at Holiday Inn Express and I get a pretty descent hotel most of the time. I do get some crappers and I did check out of one in Florida earlier this year.

But, the flexibility of the rewards program are great. Later this month I will have enough rewards to get a free golf club (which I desperately need but I'm too cheap to buy with my own money). It only took a year of devoted stay (about 5 to 7 nights a month) to get enough points.

Now, as far as beds go, Sheraton is the softest. But I'm a freak, I like hard beds and I'm addicted to the cinnamon rolls at H.I. I don't know why, they are cheap crap, but it is like crack to me, I have to have my fix!

 

[bunman45]

Tom Bodel will leave the light on for you!!!!

 

[sleepy]

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.

You are just lucky they don't make you sleep in the airplane (not that you would fit).

 

[Gulfstream 200]

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.

Im surprised to hear that!

From your profile I'd say you traveled the world with the airlines?

Im not talking Intl crew hotels at the Airport...Im talking downtown hotels. I suppose the Dubai one is the only one you stayed at because its close enough to the terminal for you guys...(with 25 mins)

Check out Grand Hyatts in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong etc...yes they are 45-1hr from the airport - like most places...but they are some of the nicest in Asia. They are often choice #1 in our department if they are avail and within our city price range. St. Regis also has some nice properties, as does Rosewood, Ritz, and Four Seasons...

Min rest stays in these cities?, its often not worth it to go downtown, but if we have 2 nights+ - definitly worth the extra travel..Ya gotta get off airport property, crew Marriotts/Hiltons at the terminal are what sucks!

Red Flag #1 - If it has a airport shuttle - dont stay there.

 

[Lou3]

I'm also a Hilton fan (Diamond member). After that, I like to stay at the Marriott hotels (but they are very hard to make gold). And Priority Club hotels after that (Holiday Inn, Crown Plaza, etc), they are easy to make Gold.

I won't go out of my way to stay at a Hilton though, I usually find out from the FBO what is around and what the rates are first, after that I decide what is best for me and the company (cost vs. quality).

I used to fly with this Captain, before I made captain, that was a hard core smoker. So, every time the company booked us into a Marriott hotel (they are all non-smoking) he would change it and always for the worse. We would end up staying in some flea bag motel 6 with pubic hair carpet just so this cancer addict could feed his addiction. After almost a year of this crap I went OFF on this bozo (in Vegas actually) and told him he was never going to stick me in some dive again just to satisfy his selfish habit. Fortunately, that was about it as far as our pairings went so the story ends there. Now that I am a Captain, I always make sure the the F.O. is equally pleased with the hotel that I select and I always involve him in the process. I only wish I would have had it that good.

 

[Iflewjetz]

I still flaunt the Diamond Card... especially when I walk to the Embassy for happy hour from the Hampton Inn across the street. Keep those room keys guys!

I have a buddy that is a salesman and sometimes on the road he stops in Embassy Suites and gets breakfast. One time he stopped in and the chef said he needed to see his ticket, he said he didnt have it and the guy gave him crap so he said, look buddy, I am here all week, are we gonna have to go through this every morning? The chef/omlette maker said no and gave him his breakfast.