News and notes from around the interweb:
- You’ll want to avoid the St. Petersburg Marriott Clearwater on October 26th. Apparently for this event the hotel pool is topless. I’m surprised the brand permits hosting an ‘erotic room crawl’ to be honest. Shouldn’t they at least offer a disclosure on their website for guests who may be booking…?
Meanwhile, the Crowne Plaza Downtown Dallas evicted hundreds of gay men that were part of DaddyLand after complaints by a sorority national convention also at the hotel.
- You could already earn AAdvantage miles and loyalty points buying tickets through TicketMaster, but you can now also spend miles for TicketMaster tickets. Looks like miles are worth about a penny apiece spent this way. Not interesting to me, but I expected much worse redemption value honestly.
This was previewed as a second half of 2024 initiative during American’s Investor Day back in March. Other items on that list included improved redemption benefits for elite frequent flyers and “exclusive access to premium content for status customers.”
- Classy.
Behold, the new American Airlines temporary outdoor check-in counter at @CLTAirport, on Departures by door 2, as ongoing lobby construction is closing some indoor check-in. It looks almost ready to open. Highs this week in the 90s. pic.twitter.com/Gsnmw7YeCw
— The Charlotte Ledger (@CltLedger) July 9, 2024
- Maybe the whole thing should just be outside, actually?
- New York JFK airport self-driving shuttles. Meanwhile, another New York technological marvel.
- Copenhagen is offering free stuff for tourists who demonstrate Green behaviors (NYT)
- Register to earn double points at Hyatt Place and Hyatt House hotels for stays completed by October 15, 2024, up to 25,000 bonus points.
The swinger takeovers of hotels are more common than you think. Especially at lower end brands, which have the least amount of brand standards and corporate oversight. While I don’t want a Marriott or Hilton to start turning away meetings and events based on their content — that’s a recipe for disaster — I think the hotel chains and hotel properties should reject meetings and events based on their actions. In this case, the entity is openly advertising actions by guests that would be considered lewd and lascivious to hotel staff, guests staying at the hotel who aren’t part of the swingers club, etc.
First of all a topless pool is a positive, not a negative, except for prudes like Gary.
Secondly the temporary changes to CLT’s AA check in counter is for less than 2 weeks and they have been very proactive in both notifying passengers about it and suggesting arriving a little early. BTW this impacts people originating in CLT so not a big deal to you or others that may connect. I am gladly taking all the construction changes to finally have the terminal work done later this year. Can’t expand the concourses and that will continue to be the major whine but otherwise desperately needed changes. New terminal A gates will also be much nicer like the current A expansion (which you and others here never see since services UA, SW, Frontier and Spirit only). Delta will have most of the gates in the next A concourse expansion
Yes they should let you know about the event. I once booked a week at a resort spa hotel. They neglected to let me know they were hosting “Jeep Week”. There were many classy events such as a bumper holding contest, tug o war, $5.00 box lunches and of course a dj who started playing at 8 AM. Needless to say….would NEVER set foot in that hotel ever again.
Your link about the pool being topless is the rules for “takeover” events, but that event is not advertised as a “takeover”, but just “dedicated hotel floors”. Seems like they have just bought out entire floors of the hotel, in which case I don’t why the hotel would need to tell other guests?
Some middle to older aged women without tops on is much less offensive/annoying than a hotel full of high school kids on a band trip, a hotel hosting a NAMBLA convention, or even quite a few wedding parties I’ve encountered.
Live and let sag.
@AC: The new terminal A gates will be a nice 1.3 mile walk from the DL counters when you figure in going to PreCheck. Plus don’t count on the moving walkways working.
Yes hotels do need to notify you of the events. Imagine going to a hotel full of RNC People or Southern Baptist convention
Note that it says dedicated hotel floors. Don’t press the wrong button in the elevator and you probably won’t know it’s there.
And please nuke those reloading ads, they really mess things up!
Gary, we all know you put a pineapple magnet on your door.
The new American Airlines temporary outdoor check-in counter at
CLT, by departures by door 2, has closed some indoor check-ins. To have sufficient time to check in, we advise you to arrive at the airport one or two days early.
I once went to Disneyland and stayed at the Anaheim Marriott. I wasn’t expecting to return from a day at the “Happiest place on earth” with Disney souvenirs to find the California Republican convention ramping up in the hotel lobby.
OMG topless women in the pool. The horror of it all. Gary you better not travel to any of the European beaches if this bothers you. lol
Rico I would much rather prefer the hotel hosting a RNC event than any Sh… Show the DNC was to put on.
Mental note: don’t stay at the Crowne Plaza Downtown Dallas.
I’m more surprised by the sorority girls being troubled by gay men. I would have thought the opposite where they would feel safer since the chances of being harassed are vastly lower than with straight men.
Isn’t the worry about partial nudity and seeing human mammaries sort of out of proportion given that semi-naked and naked people are less of a threat to the community than all those guns in the hands of the“fully-dressed” angry and freaked out “Florida man” supporters?
It’s pretty safe to assume that the Republican Convention attendees in Milwaukee this month will be inspired by their Orange Lord Nominee and run up the payments to “adult entertainers” of all sorts in the vicinity for the occasion. So they will be encouraging nudity in a way.
Señor Leff is no prude but maybe he has a home audience to consider instead of really sharing how much he misses The Jerry Springer Show and checking out the Victoria Secrets catalogs a little too closely.