Occasionally I find myself planning a vacation and booking a hotel. Usually it’s for a bunch of college-age people, so our priorities are low price, low price, and low price. But sometimes I find myself in a nice hotel—a fancy one, even—and I almost uniformly hate the experience.
Why do I hate it? There are an awful lot of good things about a nice hotel. The rooms are usually well-furnished, big, and clean, the lobby is nicely decorated, the staff friendly. But what I hate is the fact that the more expensive the hotel, the fewer things you get for free. Seems completely ridiculous, right? Continue reading ‘fancy hotels’
I just had an awesome vacation in New York City, and while it’s my second favorite place to be (after my hometown, of course), like any other place, it has its problems. And traveling, no matter where, always causes its own problems. So, without further adieu, a grab-bag of NYC complaints:
1) The fact that you can’t walk around drinking. Growing up in New Orleans, I think it wasn’t until I was 15 or 16 when I learned that people in other parts of the country can’t walk down the street with an alcoholic beverage. I was pretty shocked when I found out. What’s the harm? And New York would be the absolute perfect city to allow public drinking. No one ever drives; you can take the subway (the public transit there is the practically the 8th wonder of the world) or a taxi everywhere you want to go, so you never have to worry about drunk driving. Wouldn’t it be great to walk around Times Square as if you were walking down Bourbon Street? NYC needs to get on this, stat. And while they’re at it, how about a casino? NYC and the state lose tons and tons of money to Atlantic City and Connecticut, and the underground games there are perhaps the busiest in the country, what with people like Alex Rodriguez frequenting them. NYC would be able to print money in tax revenue. Continue reading ‘lousy things in NYC’