The Glade 4.0

See poll.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

6 of one, half dozen of the other.

Uh, Marriott, I guess. Never heard of the other.

Edit: Ah, I see. They're a group with a bunch of brands. Would still go Marriott. No particular reason why.

Now, to give fair warning: the bulk of my experience with either brand is at Dragon*Con. So it's not exactly typical conditions to judge customer service and the like.

But I've been to two Marriotts as a guest -- one on business (was nothing particularly notable either way), one at the Con (one of the better hotels at the con from a facilities and layout perspective).

I've stayed at the Westin at the Con, and it's been pretty nice. But the Sheraton at the Con seems to have staff that actively seek to find new ways to express their loathing for the Con guests and to actively make them uncomfortable and angry.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Haaaaaaate Sheraton.

Where will you be likely to go and which brand has the most places covered?

I tend to think Marriott, but one of the nicest places I've ever stayed is the Westin Paloma in Tucson.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I like the DoubleTree in Murfreesboro, TN. Fresh out of the oven chocolate chip cookies at checkin FTW!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Strangely, turns out that I'll be staying at a Westin in a week.

This.

Don't forget, you'll be loathing a Sheraton in a week, too.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Oh, my Sheraton loathing ebbs and flows, but never entirely dissipates.

Hilton Honors

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I stay in a lot of hotels. I generally look for those that are part of the 'leading small hotels in the world' branding alliance.

The Alex , in midtown nyc is nice. The American Colony in jerusalem is great. Marriot, hilton, cambria suites, double tree, etc... They're all basically the same. Brown, businessmans hotels.

(although, looks like something may have happened to the brand - lwh looks different now to last time i used it)

I'm just traveling a lot for my new job, so I guess the emphasis should be on quality of the rewards over quality of the hotels, in terms of the poll.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine