Tag: hotel

Pet-friendly hotels gain popularity, offer impressive amenities
Hotels offer a wide variety of services, from the necessary to the upscale and unusual, to make their guests feel at home: pedicures, massages, gift baskets, exercise classes, gourmet room service, luxury bedding, even psychics — no, not for you, for your pet! A recent New York Times article reports that as pets become family members […]

Signalling smokers: A website catalogs smoking hotels
When it comes to searching for smoking hotels online, puffers face a smoke and mirrors situation of time-intensive research and poorly-organized hotel information. One website, Smoketels.com, founded in November 2013, aims to make the process a bit easier by cataloging hotels with smoking rooms throughout the world. As Shawn Bradley, the site’s founder, told the […]

The new hotel bathroom: a measure of guest satisfaction
The hotel bathroom, a metric of guest satisfaction and a microcosm of the overall hotel experience, is evolving, reports the New York Times. The news comes as TrustYou, a “reputation-management company” that analyzes guest reviews from such sites as TripAdvisor, Yelp, and others, reports that “bathrooms are failing” — all this despite a 2013 J. D. […]