News and notes from around the interweb:
- Flight Attendants Are Leaving Notes Hidden In Their Hotel Room Bedsheets To Warn That The Linen Hasn’t Been Changed Between Guests
[F]light attendants will regularly pull back the bed sheets as soon as they get into their room to look for telltale signs that the bed sheets haven’t been changed, or perhaps even worse, evidence of a bedbug infestation.
That has now led to some crew members tucking messages into the sheets to help alert their fellow flight attendants or other guests that the linen they’re about to climb into hasn’t been changed. …“If you find this note, then this bed still has its old sheets on.”
- Click through this VRBO listed at $235 and it actually costs $824. What is a “Host Fee”… isn’t that literally the rate the host charges?
- The Grand Hyatt Deer Valley is a subsidized public-private partnership military hotel. Lift tickets are also discounted 75%. “The Grand Hyatt was funded as part of a $390 million bond resolution MIDA passed in October.”
The Grand Hyatt will replace the Hillhaus as Hill Air Force Base’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) facility. And even in that capacity, it stands alone. It is the first MWR resort to be built and managed as part of a public-private partnership.
…[U]p to 100 of the hotel’s 387 rooms are eligible to be rented in advance at steep discounts by specified current and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their families and other government workers.
Specifically, the discounts are available to all active duty, reserve and National Guard personnel as well as actively serving Department of Defense employees, military members who served 20 years or more and disabled veterans in the second- or third-rank categories.
- What’s really going on at the United Club bar.
Genius, do you think I could do this with the girls phones I meet at the United Club in the airports?
— BoSoxPats2020 (@PatsSoxSol) January 22, 2025
- Pitching snowballs on the tarmac
The ground crew having a last little bit of snow fun in HOU! Would’ve been a strike @SouthwestAir pic.twitter.com/CqA6W9Pmww
— Emily Douglas (@_emilydoug) January 22, 2025
- Airline passenger captures astonishing video of humanoid figures standing on the clouds (HT: Paul H)
On the reused bedding: Thanks to the flight attendants for paying-it-forward, sorta. Yikes that they’d even have to.
Gary, you forgot that we (the customers) now need to pay ‘extra’ if we want clean linens at hotels… because of the ‘environment’ or something. It’s… Sustainable! Bespoke! Curated!
Gotta enjoy that ‘greenwashing’ (reuse the towels to save the whales!), but that it’s mostly platitudes and laziness, nothing actually making a meaningful difference on climate. Therefore, hotels, airlines, and many other businesses, are going to skimp on service, market it as otherwise, and pocket that extra cash or savings on labor.
So yeah, we’re a greedy, corrupt society these days, or is it that we always have been?
That has been going on for at least 20 or so years. I thought you knew.
@ Gary — Could the humanoid video possibly look more fake?
@TedG
I was thinking at least 40 years, but 20, for sure. ‘We’ did ‘go to’ Iraq on false pretenses, after all. Good ole ‘yellow cake,’ amirite? ‘Glad’ Haliburton got paid though. In retrospect, that was all a minor test-run for the Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride that we’re all about to go on these days.