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.
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06-12-2009, 05:00 AM #1
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06-12-2009, 05:02 AM #2
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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.
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06-12-2009, 05:23 AM #3
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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...
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06-12-2009, 06:28 AM #4
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Have made a couple of business deals on bike rides. Cycling is the new golf for alot of people.
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06-13-2009, 07:20 PM #5
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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.
Originally Posted by tulip
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.Last edited by shootingstar; 06-13-2009 at 07:28 PM.
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06-13-2009, 02:37 AM #6
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I'm an hour outside Atlanta at Reynolds Plantation. Originally Posted by arielmoon
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 driveLast edited by Mr. Bloom; 06-13-2009 at 02:52 AM.
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