News and notes from around the interweb:
- A ‘hotel fee’ is literally the room rate.
When you spend a night at a "hotel" and the "hotel" charges you a $28.99 "hotel fee." pic.twitter.com/Ohvk17Qko8
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) March 16, 2024
- Not just Hertz: woman suing after arrest for stealing a car months before she’d even rented it. (HT: Jonathan)
- Dulles.
Lots of @united branding. Here are renderings of the gates. pic.twitter.com/0tH50ShsQR
— Edward Russell (@ByERussell) March 18, 2024
- Former American Airlines CEO Doug Parker is promoting his campaign against JSX on social media. He was getting dragged in the comments over it, so comments have all been removed and commenting turned off.
- Progress on the Las Vegas Capital One lounge from Ed Pizzarello. This lounge will be 7.875 square feet on the D concourse. Of course the one I’m looking forward to is the dining concept opening at Washington National (and then LaGuardia).
- Elite breakfast at Conrad Bora Bora now requires cash co-pay for two guests despite Hilton Honors program terms. The Hilton program doesn’t offer much to elites, but resort breakfast outside the U.S. surely should be honored.
Last year, rode Metro to IAD and it took 1 hour 45 minutes from hotel to Metro station to check-in to security to moon buggy to Unitted Club. Security took about 15 minutes of that time. Ridiculous. Never again. I would rather fly DCA to ORD or EWR and connect.
7.875 square feet? is that 94.5 inches by 12 inches or 756 inches by 1.5 inches? Either way, it seems like it will fill up quickly.
Staying at a costly resort next month and plan to get housekeeping Every day.
The Metro to Dulles is essentially for students and other people who aren’t in a hurry and are looking for the cheapest way to go. The new Dulles terminal will be great – if we live long enough to see it.
Enterprise should rot in hell. I hope the woman sues them straight into bankruptcy.
“This lounge will be 7.875 square feet on the D concourse.” This is, of course, the wrong way to state a value using a thousands separator in the USA. It would be correct in many countries in Europe which uses decimal commas where decimal points are used in the USA and separator points where separator commas are used in the USA. If you look at the writings of the mathematicians in Europe centuries ago they used somewhat different separators and radix characters. Of course, it may just be an uncorrected typo but a lot of people are using European separators such as using a point instead of a colon in time telling.
105 minutes to get from your hotel to the airport through security to the club? Sounds pretty average for any major city airport experience.
It took me 45 minutes to get from the LAX airport entrance to my terminal 5- probably could have walked in less than half that time, but didn’t want to drag all my bags. That airport needs to be boycotted!
The various state and federal governments should require all taxes and fees be included in the room and car rental rates so that the consumer can make an informed choice. I recently spent the weekend at a State owned park hotel. Last year, the hotel didn’t post a “Lodging Fee”. Now, I get the bill with this $17.00/night fee that “includes” the $5.00 mandatory park fee (one might think that if you’re staying IN the park’s lodge, the fee would be included in the room rate but…), two bottles of water, a “fruit basket” that’s in the lobby (!), WI-FI and the once “free shuttle” into the little town. I didn’t use any of these items! I surprised that the little room safe wasn’t included in the fee!