So, the eyebrows were raised...

[Mr. Bloom]

...as I unloaded my bike at the Ritz-Carlton where I have three days of meetings (paid by someone else) ...

...don't they know cycling is the "new golf"

[Ana]

You just needed some bling on it You could stud it and tell them they're diamonds and your frame is make out of 18k gold

[ny biker]

Dare to be shocking.

[Flybye]

We had a similar experience as we dragged three children and all of their luggage plus A COOLER through the ritzy hotels in Las Vegas (The Bellagio and Mandalay Bay).
I would have applauded your confidence as you brought in your bike. Well done!

[OakLeaf]

What, the parking valet didn't have the proper cleats?

[PamNY]

Good heavens, tell me what city you are in so I can avoid it. I thought the mark of a class hotel was never raising eyebrows for any reason.

Pam

[arielmoon]

Love it!!

I am going to a scifi convention in Altanta in Sept and I plan to wheel my bike through the lobby with a smile.

[Tri Girl]

We stayed at a really swanky Hilton in Destin, FL a couple years ago and wheeled our bikes right through the lobby to the elevators. Only the patrons gave us "the eye." We never got any flak from hotel staff. If a hotel ever tells us we can't take out bikes inside, we will demand a refund and go somewhere else. They go where we go. Good for you for bringing your bike right inside. If they only knew how much it cost and how it's soooo much more than just a bike...

[tulip]

Have made a couple of business deals on bike rides. Cycling is the new golf for alot of people.

[shootingstar]

Have made a couple of business deals on bike rides. Cycling is the new golf for alot of people.

Agree. I always found it a topic ice-breaker, especially among the guys in several organizations that were predominantly men --regardless of whether or not they were cyclists.

We always ask hotel front desk about bringing in our bikes. 95% of time we've been able to bring them indoors...if not in our rm., in a locked area. 1-2 hotels allowed us to store bikes in an unused conference rm. Several hotels would have the hotel valet park our bikes for us in locked area..that's the way how they wanted to handle it.

The trickier part is staying at some bed 'n breakfasts where just storing in the garage wasn't always a great idea unless we made sure bikes had the bike locks on also.

[Mr. Bloom]

Love it!!

I am going to a scifi convention in Altanta in Sept and I plan to wheel my bike through the lobby with a smile.

I'm an hour outside Atlanta at Reynolds Plantation.

Yesterday, as I came in from a 42 mile ride that was WAY too hot and windy, I met AtlBentRider (from bike journal) and his wife. We talked about routes and I gave them my queue sheet.

Your issue in Atlanta will be traffic...you'll probably have to drive out of town to get a reasonably comfortable place to drive

[TxDoc]

...as I unloaded my bike at the Ritz-Carlton where I have three days of meetings (paid by someone else) ...

...don't they know cycling is the "new golf"

Yep, happens to me all the time - people wonder what the heck am I doing with a road bike when we are going to a medical meeting...

[Mel_bikes]

Stayed at a hotel in Boulder..Ran into the manager rolling a patron's bike to his reserved room so he had it when he arrived. My kind of place

[sundial]

Yep, happens to me all the time - people wonder what the heck am I doing with a road bike when we are going to a medical meeting...

They're just jealous cuz they have to be in a stuffy ol' meeting all day.

[TrekTheKaty]

I recently took my bike to the Mackinaw, Michigan Hampton Inn. Not swanky, but I snuck it in the back--just in case. Later that day, a hundred cyclists for an organized ride arrived and proudly rolled them through the lobby. I wasn't sure a hotel would approve--but I'm the customer and my bike is my "baby." I'll be braver next time. Good job, Mr. Silver.