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.

It struck me as an appropriately Buffista hotel.

I'm still sorry no one got a picture of Vortex in front of The Vortex (also sad I didn't get a picture of it period - I do have pictures; I just haven't gotten them yet from the friend I borrowed the camera from).

My room could have been switched with the HS. It was very large with fridge. Right at the top of the stairs. It was a fun location with plenty of places close by for food. The staff was sweet. The breakfast was fine for me. Not a big hot breakfast person.

Having an outdoor area next to the HS makes a big difference. SF was great with the pool and roof deck. In LA we took over the parking lot and pool area.

Chicago is good because of the large number of localistas, but I would prefer to go someplace new. Not pimping any mid cities because I don't know any of them well enough.

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I would really love to have it in Chicago again. Not just because I adore Chicago, which I do, or because I know it well, though I do. For super personal selfish reasons, I would love to have it in Chicago because it would be around the time of Kalamazoo (a medieval studies conference I love) and I could take my vacation for a couple weeks in May, and hit both.

But that is very me me me, so.

Also, I am stuck in St Louis on a crummy layover and have all day tomorrow. Don't we have people in St Louis?

Don't we have people in St Louis?

Anne is the only one.