I just loved the Highland Inn in Atlanta, btw, which while it wasn't shiny or modern or de-luxe, was quirky and clean and very accommodating....

My only, only dislike at Highland Inn was that the hospitality suite being divided into two rooms made it cramped and difficult for a lot of people to be in the same room at once. I found it uncomfortable. Of course, I like hospitality suites to have king-size beds in them, too. *shrug*

It was a bit small, but I was just thinking yesterday how convenient it was to have two rooms (we had two rooms in SF, also, iirc) so we could sometimes have vids in one room and socializing in the other (and drifting back and forth between them) without the either group disrupting the other. Why this occurred to me I don't know.

Two rooms are nice if the rooms are big enough that one person can walk through from one to the other without having to displace multiple other people as they go. SF benefited from having patio access that allowed easy movement and a place to decompress if things got too crowded.

That said, I did most of my Atlanta socializing in restaurants, at the prom venue, and at Ginger's house, so it wasn't really a big issue.

In retrospect, I think I would have asked Ailleann if we could switch our expansive two-room suite with the hospitality one, even though it was at the very very end of a long corridor. Ah well.

Theo, that would have been an excellent idea! Plus our room randomly had a kitchen! Ah well.

(Which reminds me that I should stop being a jackass and email you about the rest of the room cost. Sometimes I'm just made of ::facepalm::)

Heh, I was just thinking about that last night, wondering if I'd forgotten or something. Seeing as I've managed to forget about other, more important things.

You had a kitchen? That WAS one mighty strange hotel.

I liked it, once I figured out how to keep the shower from killing me. Though the "continental breakfast" was a bad joke.

Seriously. That shower could knock you over if you weren't ready for it. Not that I'm complaining.

I had an old microwave and a mini fridge in (one of my ) bedrooms. Never did scope out the breakfast.

I have no idea what the original philosophy behind that hotel's design was, but it sure didn't suffer from cookie cutter identical rooms.

I regret only remembering after the fact that you could order massages there.

I seem to remember that we had a small (apartment-size) electric stove and a microwave in addition to the mini-fridge... and a full-size kitchen sink.

I particularly like how the corridor on my side of the building actually sloped down considerably, which necessitated some of the the doorframes being framed rather creatively. I gather that this was so two buildings could be connected -- you couldn't get to the back half of the second floor from the portion of the second floor you could go into from the lobby.

Also the corridor floor? Squishy, like there were three or four levels of carpeting underfoot.