The Diary of Anne Ku

23 July 2000 Sunday

IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT HOTEL

After calling the front desk and security guards four times in one night, I could not believe that the hotel management was so useless. The adjoining room next door had at least half a dozen guests and partied all night long. Losing sleep was one thing, but facing the possibility of another sleepless night was just too much.

I wandered down the road in search of another hotel. There were many hotels in this area. I started thinking about the positive attributes of the places I had stayed before.

Manhattan Hotel	Positive	Negative
Crown Plaza, Broadway	centre of everything corner rooms always nicer high floor always better excellent sauna and steam room	too ritzy (reception) must wear cap in swimming pool no piano for me to play
Millenium Hilton	very bright: wall to wall windows fantastic views lovely pool, never crowded lots of mirrors no adjoining rooms next to Century 21 dept store grand piano	sauna doesn't work very well no steam room
Sheraton Manhattan		small rooms expensive in comparison air conditioning didn't work well no pool
Holiday Inn Broadway	higher ceilings than others due to old building close to Penn Station	very busy with tourists not much light, small windows no pool or piano

yesterday

tomorrow

20 August 2000

I had jotted down my thoughts of the day during my travels. Now that I've FINALLY unpacked and cleaned up my room, I found these notes. So I will now "back-fill" my on-line diary.