Here’s a funny little anecdote about a recent stay I had at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. To set the backdrop on this comedy, understand that the Hilton is one of the largest hotels in a city laden with large, convention scale hotels. It is adjacent to the convention center...
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Sassy. Sexy. Red. All very appropriate words to use for the Hotel Rouge which sits on 16th Street on the north side of Scott Circle, across from the Australian Embassy. But don’t let the scantily clad Venus statues our front fool you. And don’t be misled by the glitzy red tile upon entry in the...
I promise, this blog entry is neither here, nor there. Having traveled to countless cities around the United States and a good many abroad, I’ve found Washington, DC leads the pack in one area and I wonder if any others have noticed this. Are our ambulances the most obtrusive and loudest? I’ve conducted an extremely...
It was one thing when the $16 Muffin scandal was uncovered because it was mostly unfounded and a gross exaggeration of the truth to make a political point. It still had terribly undesirable consequences but once the flaws in the reporting were revealed, all that remained was some pretty disastrous public relations and the all...
Last October, while attending IMEX, one of the industry’s most mammoth meetings events in Las Vegas, I encountered perhaps the luckiest 72hr streaks of my life. In a span of two meetings’ days and one evening prior, I sat down at a Roulette table and placed a single bet on and around my lucky number...
This might the most common three words in email traffic every day. It’s appended to everyone’s out of office message. When customers send out an email to their vendor and happen to find their vendor out of the office, it’s a helpful bit of information for the customer to know how to receive immediate assistance...
Old Town is a lovely alternative to downtown Washington for business travelers and leisure travelers alike, and I was afforded the opportunity to spend last week soaking it all in when I stayed at the Hotel Monaco Alexandria. One of Kimpton’s more recent creations in the metro DC area, the Monaco evolved from what used...
Hotel Lobbyists is pleased to announce the appointment of a junior associate, who is quickly working his way up to being a full fledged partner. Meet Riley, our 18lb bichon frisee who spends more time at Hotel Lobbyists headquarters than even the firm’s founder, Brett Sterenson. His enthusiasm for coming to work, his ability to...
By now one might make the assumption that I’m only staying in Kimpton Hotels during my visits to Washington. Indeed I am staying at all eleven Kimpton Hotels during the course of the year and it just so happens I’ve stayed at three Kimpton hotels consecutively. On my last visit to Washington I combined a...
