News and notes from around the interweb:
- Hyatt Centric Mountain View charges $100 if you take a wall-mounted toiletry bottle It’s this stuff. Remember when Hyatt used to encourage you to take the soap?
- I appear on this week’s City Journal podcast talking about the 737 MAX 9, why I don’t love New York LaGuardia’s renovations, and about the consequences of proposed credit card interchange legislation.
- Those MGM hotels that now partner with Marriott? They just raised their resort fees. And Marriott passes resort fees on to members even when redeeming their points for any hotel charging them, unlike Hyatt or Hilton.
Follow-up. Shiny new resort fees (upbeat!) as of today, Jan. 16: Excalibur/Luxor, $37; New York-New York/NoMad/Park MGM/Signature, $42; Mandalay Bay/Delano/MGM Grand, $45; Aria/Vdara/Bellagio/Cosmo, $50. https://t.co/h5UccNg2I8
— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) January 17, 2024
- United Airlines doesn’t understand what ‘the public interest’ means. Tit-for-tat protectionism is like Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles threatening to shoot himself in the head.
United submits that it is in the public interest to grant Saudi Arabian Airlines’ application for codeshare authority with Kuwait Airways only when United is able to fully implement its codeshare agreement with Emirates. Accordingly, unless and until GACA issues the written approval for United and Emirates to launch their codeshare, the Department should withhold approval of this application.
- Minnesota Attorney General would never dare say this about Delta.
I have received consistently poor service from @AmericanAir.
— Keith Ellison (@keithellison) January 18, 2024
- Hyatt’s new brand campaign “Be More Here” – I kind of like it, not all of you will, though I don’t think it rivals the old Sheraton “Belong”
- United will finally refresh premium transcon business class meals
Just wait until a customer gets charged for a toiletry bottle the customer never took.
Sometimes housekeeping or maintenance removes a bottle and fails to replace it. Sometimes a bottle falls and the customer puts it on the ground or somewhere and it doesn’t get noticed for a while.
Of course the MN Attorney General would NEVER bash the world’s #1 premium airline for the past three thousand years…it’s because Delta NEVER does ANYTHING wrong!
I was just in a Canopy by Hilton hotel. I knew they would have bottles on the wall in the shower, and decided I would bring my own shampoo and conditioner in small bottles. Still, I ended up checking my bag on the plane because of the liquids – yes, I had other preferred liquids. Aside from the fact that they didn’t clean my room at the end of the second day, the hotel was lovely. When I complained, the hotel sent up the head housekeeper who apologized profusely.
In some ways I prefer the refillable bottles because for longer stays I don’t like running out of things (when they are properly filled)
On the other hand I always enjoyed taking toiletries with me when I leave so that’s unfortunate
Cool you were on the podcast! Will be lunchtime listen.
@ Gary — So, United is eliminating dog food?
@Gene, no just switching to Purina Pro Plan
If the toiletry really has harmful contamination, what would be a better way to establish chain of custody than a charge on a bill after taking the bottle?
Will not use or touch that dirty contaminated soap.
I’ll just bring my own empty shampoo bottle now and pump it in there leaving their empty bottle behind before I leave. Or I can even pump it into a disposable water bottle and cap it back up