There have been some fantastic posts on BHB this week. Alas, this isn’t one of them.<\/p>\n
I whined about conferences<\/a>, but that doesn’t mean I’ve never been to one.\u00a0 I’ve been to enough conferences and conventions to know that what happens outside the\u00a0conference can make the difference between having\u00a0a good\u00a0experience and a great experience. For the record, I never have a\u00a0bad experience- I simply don’t allow that to happen.<\/p>\n I’m not picky about hotels because I don’t spend time in them. My criteria is this: No roaches, no bed bugs, and no DNA left by previous guests. That covers any cleanliness issues and that’s my biggest concern in a hotel. On the other hand,\u00a0I do like to be around the people I like, so a few weeks ago I sent out a tweet asking if anyone had started looking at hotels. I have enough experience with this to know that since my hotel needs are fairly\u00a0spartan, if someone else wants to do the research<\/a>, I should step aside and let them. So I did.<\/p>\n Brad Coy and Andy Kaufman were on it, and they have more narrow criteria: They wanted free wifi, and walking distance to the Heard Museum. They talked to Brian Brady who told them about a hotel with a lovely outdoor pool- if this is a family vacation,\u00a0that might be worth looking for- but I’m from Ohio and have the tan to prove it. No pool for me.<\/p>\n I don’t mind staying alone, but I really fall into the more-the-merrier category with these things. Packing a lot of people comfortably into a hotel room makes things interesting, if not fun, so I was game when HouseChick<\/a>, Kelley Koehler, and I decided to share a room. We both conceded hotel research to the cool kids, who just this week made an executive decision: Fairfield Inn<\/a>. Free wifi, walking distance, breakfast,\u00a0Fairfield Inns work for me- they are not notoriously dirty. I read the Trip Advisor comments, always with a grain of salt, and the reviews were mixed, which is typical. Noise issues mostly, but no one who booked a suite complained.\u00a0Sweet- they have suites. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not picky about hotels because I don’t spend time in them. My criteria is this: No roaches, no bed bugs, and no DNA left by previous guests. That covers any cleanliness issues and that’s my biggest concern in a hotel. On the other hand, I do like to be around the people I like, so a few weeks ago I sent out a tweet asking if anyone had started looking at hotels. I have enough experience with this to know that since my hotel needs are fairly spartan, if someone else wants to do the research, I should step aside and let them. 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