News and notes from around the interweb:
- Hotel crime sprees? Maybe this is just getting noticed more, but that would be odd since there are fewer people staying at hotels. It sure seems like there’s been a lot of recent serious crimes at U.S. hotels, though. What’s the theory here? (The reports I’ve seen seem to cluster around limited service properties, although include upscale ones.)
A woman shot her estranged husband at the Hyatt Place Huntsville and oddly he fled to the Westin. A man an woman were shot at a hotel in Mansfield, Ohio. A man was shot at the Baymont Inn in Roanoke. A man broke into a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina resort and kidnapped two people. Two people were shot at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Citi introduces offers you can add to your card along the lines of Amex and Chase Offers.
- Cathay Pacific decides to stop working with its flight attendants union, calling unions an outdated practice and relic of the 1970s. Since Hong Kong law doesn’t give unions monopoly bargaining power, the airline can do this. And in the coronavirus era with most of the carrier’s flights grounded, it wouldn’t give employees much leverage to strike.
- If you want to sanitize your hotel room when you first arrive here’s what to consider.
- Hilton Tahiti will (re-)open in 2021 important because decent hotels on Papeete are scarce and flight schedules so often mean having to overnight on the island before heading off to Bora Bora, Moorea, or whatever your ultimate destination. The Intercontinental, where I’ve stayed several times, is one of the only decent options, and it’s both only barely decent and astronomically priced for what it is. The views are pretty though.
Intercontinental Tahiti
For why so many crimes happen at limited service hotels, my guess would be because of the sheer number of rooms there. ~80% of chain hotel rooms in the US are at limited service hotels, and probably more of the occupied rooms currently given how many full service hotels here are business/convention hotels that aren’t having events with hundreds of rooms (or the entire hotel) reserved for the event.
One would expect that all other things being equal, at least 4 out of 5 violent crimes would be at a limited service hotel.
Gary: correction, the “Roanoke” shooting was not in Roanoke, VA, but in Roanoke Rapids, NC.
Let’s continue to defund the police!
Alot of cities, towns are housing homeless people due to covid, etc. They bring
street crimes with them. Buyer beware, u get what u pay for.
@ Frank
Yes of course so when you have an accident,held up @gunpoint etc you can call
The pizza delivery guy for help
The police haven’t been defunded, so what’s the reason they can’t prevent crime?
When I went to register my Citi Thank You Preferred with a restaurant, I received an email that the card had been deregistered with SkyMiles dining. So the new Citi program must be interfacing with the same network used by the airlines.
#Peter Ross
Police cannot be everywhere every time. That’s why people carry. You are on your own in Biden’s dream world. Visualize world peace. LOL.
Communities in sanctuary cities are playing a dangerous game. If you don’t back your police, who are you going to trust? Work slowdowns happen in all types of industry. Yes, workers will do their job. It just might not be completed on time or arrival is After the fact. Work tools for some reason don’t work right or cars malfunction for some reason. Get the point??
We have a society who didn’t obey their parents or teachers when growing up and now ANY authority they rebuke. OK, fine. Have it your way.
Gary can you give me a brand name of a “diffuser “ mentioned in the article re disinfecting hotel rooms? Is it a can of Lysol?
E.W.Kinnon your are on Target..!!get ready for the mess…..