Equally frustrating to late departures – or maybe even more problematic – is departing early. It’s the Goldie Locks problem. You plan on the basis of the airline’s schedule, and departing early means you have less time than you though to make it to the airport and through security. You may miss your flight!
Ultimately I’d say that I got my money’s worth for the stay, if I simply pretended it wasn’t a Hyatt and accepted that service and program benefits just aren’t part of this hotel’s DNA. It’s a nice enough room in the heart of Waikiki easily walkable to the beach, and they have fish to lend you.
People aren’t just taking off their shoes and socks and sticking their feet in the air. They are photographing their own bad behavior for posterity – and maybe selling the photos online?
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Long check-in lines are de rigueur in Las Vegas. People go to Vegas for a break, and the start of their trip is a queue – probably first for the ride from the airport to their hotel, and then to get into their room. What could be more of a mass experience, and what could make an upscale hotel feel more like Circus Circus than this?
This is reportedly a bigger problem at Caesars hotel properties like Caesars Palace and Planet Hollywood than at MGM hotels, and something that really began in earnest over the last couple of years due to insufficient staffing.
Customers have started reporting that they’re seeing blankets and pillows back in domestic first class on American Airlines. That’s on cross country redeye flights.
The space underneath the seat in front of you usually belongs to you. Not every passenger respects this. Your seat opponent may use the space in front of them and the space in front of you. When you arrive at your seat, there’s already a bag sitting where your feet should go.
They might even put their stuff in front of your seat and not in front of theirs to give themselves the extra legroom.
With American Airlines and Southwest appearing to lose at the FAA and TSA in their efforts to shut down fellow Dallas-based competitor JSX, which offers a better passenger experience, they’ve turned to their friends in Congress to do the dirty.
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It’s the right stupid game for this stupid timeline we live in. Rawdog Simulator.
This summer ‘raw dogging’ has been the rage, because someone decided that it means sitting on a plane staring into space with nothing to do – nothing to read, no inflight entertainment – and the phrase itself sounds vaguely transgressive.
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