Hotels

Property around Walt Disney World comes at a premium. While Walt Disney managed to scoop up as much of the land around his planned “Florida project” by using shell companies…

If someone works with points and miles for a hobby, let alone a living, chances are they know a whole lot about them. I mean, they obviously don’t need to…

As time goes on, Joe and I seem to be traveling more and more. Whereas just a handful of years ago we’d go out of town “X” number of times…

Hotels spend a lot of time and effort figuring out what guests want. The easiest way to get information is from the post-stay surveys. While these can let a hotel…

Considering that it’s just a theme park resort, Walt Disney World (WDW) is a huge place. And I mean HUGE. It’s just shy 40 square miles (it used to be…

Setting the temperature of your hotel room has become a cat and mouse game between guests and the hotel management. People just want to set their rooms to a comfortable…

A while back I wrote a piece about the wrong way to steal the salt and pepper shakers from Virgin Atlantic. Most people took it with the humor that it…

If you’ve ever stayed at a hotel where a motion sensor controlled the thermostat, you know the unpleasant feeling of walking into a hot room when all you want to…

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that 2020 was a horrible year for hotels. In fact, STR reports that U.S. hotel profitability fell 84.6% that year. 2021? Much better. Maybe not quite…

In 2019, both California and New York began their respective plans of banning single-use toiletries in hotels. California’s ban on single-use toiletries will begin in 2023. That was New York’s…