Good evening S!
It's Sunday, April 12th and I should be writing my take home final!
Once again I am sucked into the world of blogging by my best friends T & S. I seems to me that finding a topic is very easy (travel interests me, that's why I have the blog in the first place), it's just finding the time to write about it... I found something.I'm writing about it. I hope you're happy.
Upon another recent search of the Digg travel section, I came across a very interesting story about hotel rooms. When I think hotel room, the first thing that comes to mind is the scratchy comforter. Then comes the crappy carpet, followed closely by the textured wallpaper (always in a beige colour) and the sterilized bathrooms with neatly point-fold toilet paper rolls. This image that is currently glued in my mind is probably due to the fact that when my family went anywhere on a trip, we would not stay in luxury hotels, but instead at the generic chain hotels (that decided on a colour scheme for each room plan and stuck with it, nation wide). This way, it wouldn't matter if you were waking up in Vermont or San Diego - your blackout window treatments would still be drawn, and you'd still want to punch the person on the other end of the white, large digit touch-tone phone that is delivering a wake up call at your request.
see that carpet? eugh.
This, apparently, is no longer the way to vacation, dear readers. Family vacations do not include a night's rest at the Best Western, oh no. They are now replaced with all inclusive, deluxe rock star suites in spa hotels. I would not be surprised if they had personal star-fruiters; that is, people who come into your room at your beck and call to cut up star fruit for you, stick it with a tooth pick and put it in your mouth (probably even going so far as moving your jaw up and down for you so that you don't have to chew it yourself).
who needs family time when you have a nanny?
... ok S. I'll admit it. I *MAY* be a little upset that T is going all the way down to Florida for a week to fetch you, while I am stuck vacation-less at home. I miss going places that aren't a half hour bus ride away! I want to feast on moderately edible airplane food and get headaches from hours in a car too! Life, sadly, is not fair.
Alas.
The story that I was mentioning before my tirade about star fruit was concierge.com's "The World's 11 Most Amazing Hotel Beds" by Josey Miller. She goes on about how these hotel beds will make you "kick up your feet, rest your travel-weary self, and stare at much more than just the ceiling. These beds think outside the box springs—and they're what dreams are really made of." The article goes all out in conducting tests at various hotels and providing observations on the likeliness you'll get some sleep to the best time of year to go. It even go so far as offering contact information to those who want stay at the fabulous hotels and resorts, as well as revealing the cost per night for the amazing sleep you'll surely get. Although prices per night vary, these beautiful pictures are the closest I'm going to get to these places anytime soon (thank you minimum wage), but I can dream ; )
Check out the link above if you want to be forever jealous.
Naladhu Maldives
Ocean Houses from $2,000
Have a great Easter T.
I'll see you soon S!
Don't forget to be awesome!
-xo
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