{"id":28289,"date":"2012-06-14T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/hotel-bitching.html"},"modified":"2012-06-14T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T03:43:00","slug":"hotel-bitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/hotel-bitching.html","title":{"rendered":"Hotel bitching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business\u00a0traveler\u00a0hotel annoyances. I dunno &#8212; #1 (crappy and overpriced Internet access) and #2 (insufficient power outlets) are both pretty darned closed in my book.<\/p>\n<p>And #2 is not just about &quot;being able to plug in my laptop.&quot; \u00a0I like using my mobile as an alarm clock and white noise generator on my nightstand. \u00a0And a lot of hotels (including some quite pricey ones) simply do not have accessible outlets there.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcraphound.com%2Fimages%2Fpet-peeves-2012-CHART.png.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/06\/14\/crappy-expensive-internet-and.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter'>Crappy, expensive Internet and insufficient laptop plugs top business travellers&#39; hotel annoyance list<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe annual FlyerTalk survey of frequent business travellers&#39; greatest hotel annoyances found that the top three peeves are all related to network access: expensive Internet, inaccessible\/inadequate el&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Xts5VSYEUMm' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business\u00a0traveler\u00a0hotel annoyances. I dunno &#8212; #1 (crappy and overpriced Internet access) and #2 (insufficient power outlets) are both pretty darned closed in my book. And #2 is not just about &quot;being able to plug in my laptop.&quot; \u00a0I like using my mobile as an alarm clock and white noise generator on my nightstand. \u00a0And a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/hotel-bitching.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hotel bitching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[124,164],"class_list":["post-28289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-124","tag-164"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23807,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/socket-to-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":28289,"position":0},"title":"Socket to me!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Nov-11 11:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, as someone who's done a fair amount of international travel, variations in plug designs are a fair PitA. 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