Hotels FAQ

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> in all their years, how many hotel guests have WALKED to national airport? ha! > fuck the tip seeking service industries. that money belongs to me.

way to go, dude! BUT: whatever you do, don’t be late… I was laughing in the face of a beijing cab driver once, saying I had enough time to take the bus. missed the flight, and that mistake cost me four days and, finally, $700 for a new ticket…

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Whilst undoubtedly under the effects of alcohol, "drexler, andreas"

There there, go and have a Bex and a good lie down. ===== Dave There are 10 types of people – those who understand binary and those who don’t.

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> Whilst undoubtedly under the effects of alcohol, "drexler, andreas" > There there, go and have a Bex and a good lie down.

   You must have borrowed that one from Scott Hillard. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> ===== > Dave > There are 10 types of people – those who understand binary and > those who don’t.

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> x-no-archive: yes > oh yuck, four days in china sounds like purgatory. i’m always on time when > i pull off these capers. > another way that i used to economize was, if the flight was extremely > early, to show up at the airport on the last transit of the night before > and crash there.  www.sleepinginairports.net is run by a kindred soul. > but now i have the wealth to stay in a pricelined hotel, tip nobody, and > walk to the airport!  walked to DTW too a few years ago.

What guarantee do you have that a PL hotel will be within a mile or so of the airport?

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> What guarantee do you have that a PL hotel will be within a mile or so > of the airport?

I think there is no way to be sure. You have to look at the map boundaries of the area you are bidding in and determine if the farthest possible distance is acceptable to you. The odds are your hotel won’t be the farthest possible distance, but you can’t be sure. I recommend this site for Priceline bidding: http://www.biddingfortravel.com

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Gee, do you enjoy working on Christmas?  I doubt it.  Most good employers pay at least time and a half for working on a holiday.  If you were an employer I wouldn’t work for you for anything and I wouldn’t send the most desperate for work to you. — Mike D. Remove .spamnot to respond by email — How true is the saying that what you see is what you get! As Steve Goodier in his book, "Are You Living on the Past?" shared how both the vulture and hummingbird fly over the same desert. The vulture sees rotting flesh. The hummingbird sees colorful desert plants.

> x-no-archive: yes > to show you the cheapness and tip hatred that i live with, –maybe i sent

you this already—- > my flight was 12/25 at 6:40 am. xmas day, one of the cheapest days of year to fly! > the conundrum is that on holidays subway doesn’t open till 8. hell, even

the hotel shuttle where i was staying didn’t start till 6.  and if i were to order one of those shuttle vans to pick me up at home, i’d be rising at around 4 am and the driver would expect a fat generous xmas day tip. > well fuck those people. > so i got a very cheap hotel room through priceline, less than a mile from

the airport.  would be $75 if i paid rack rate. i bid $45 and got a marriott courtyard inn room for $45. > at 4:30 am my wakeup call went off. the clerk asked,  "do you need a taxi?" > "nooooo,"  i snarled, and having only 1 shoulder bag, i immediately

stalked out. i had scouted the foot route to the airport from the 11th floor of the hotel.  i climbed a chain-link fence, crossed the double CSX main line that i’d ridden freights on, climbed another chain-link fence, and scrambled up a muddy slope to the overpass to the airport. walked along the overpass and down airport service roads to my terminal. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> in all their years, how many hotel guests have WALKED to national airport? ha! > fuck the tip seeking service industries. that money belongs to me.

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