Hotels Quotations

I am obsessed with planning travel! Not just traveling, which I love, but the whole planning process and all the details that go into it. I subscribe to all these travel blogs and airline forums and research hotels and activities and destinations for hours on end, and I volunteer to plan trips for everyone I know.

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.

In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.

If I go anywhere, and I don't have my coffee, I don't drink coffee. When I travel, I carry it with me - and I ask hotels to grind it and brew it for me if I can't have it in my room myself. I'm dedicated that way.

We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms.

When I meet someone from the army background, there is an instant connection. We live in the best five-star hotels of the world, but outside my home I will be equally comfortable in any army cantonment or army guest house. Telling my friends that my father was in the army was like telling them that he is the second-richest man in the world.

I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!

The only thing that I travel with is an Ole Henriksen facial cleanser, something that my skin is used to avoid using different soaps at different hotels all the time, and Givenchy Man Pro-Energizing Massive Moisturizer. I usually keep my hair pretty short, too, so I don't require a lot of stuff.

One of their fundamental strategies was the same as ours - to move into businesses that were fee-driven and not so capital-intensive, and that is managing hotels instead of owning them.

If we don't do it now, our chances of acquiring beachfront land for beachfront parks will be extremely limited if not curtailed. Right now, as you know, most of the mom-and-pop hotels are being purchased and being converted into luxury condominiums.

(My hope is) for it to be a first-class facility that will serve the citizens of Orangeburg and Orangeburg County while also being a facility that will attract teams from all over the Southeast to play on our fields, use our hotels and eat at our restaurants. (It) is going to be a definite economic benefit to the community.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

Now with 68 luxury hotels and resorts in 31 countries and more than 20 properties in development, Four Seasons continues to strengthen its position for the present and future. Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

Obviously the primary focus will be on what happens to all the people employed by the casino industry, hotels and other support services in the area and how to take care of them,

I grew up in a very loving two-parent household in the middle of one of the worst ghettos in New York City, ... I didn't know I lived in the ghetto until I was like 20, 19. I came to LA with Eddie Murphy and stayed at hotels and all this stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared. I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and had crack heads.

There are people in apartments and hotels that you didn't know were there.

She accepted the travel and living in hotels for 11 months, ... With a child, she could have said she wanted to be home, and that would have been difficult. After a match it's 10 p.m., and then you have dinner until 12 - all the inconveniences of a pro athlete. Tennis was my first priority, and she accepted it. She gave advice and supported me.

I did not consume any food, drink or product from any of the hotels for fear of sabotage. The cooler was full of incredibly top-secret and potentially illegal water, cereals, jams, bread, salt, pepper, butter, etc.

For something where it?s a leisure draw, where there's no organization working collectively, like one of our races, then it's the free market. The hotels will set those rates based on what the market will permit, and that is pure supply and demand.

For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

Capital sources are circling the primary hotel markets in the U.S. now, looking for opportunities to own new hotels as soon as they are completed.

Building upon the past success of Summerfield Suites, the premier extended stay product in the industry, we will add the Hyatt name to Summerfield Suites brand and take its industry leading track record to new heights. The welcome addition of Hyatt Summerfield Suites to the Global Hyatt family further enhances our portfolio, which now includes nearly 750 hotels worldwide.

We've gone out of our way lots of times to get to a Hampton Inn. Lots of hotels copy Hampton, but no one does it as well.

When hotels close it causes a serious loss, not only in terms of room sales, but also in terms of jobs and tax revenues.

We may see low-category hotels going out of business, but we need them because they primarily serve the mainland market, which is generally price- inflexible.

He confined her to residences and hotels within Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

We look forward to working with all of our partners in states across the country as we continue to help families in hotels and motels find longer-term housing solutions.

HEI acquired more than $1.5 billion in hotels over the past 36 months. We believe the outlook for hotel investment remains quite positive. Our most recent fund, which will allow us to acquire approximately $1.5 billion in assets over the next 36 months, was originally targeted at $350 million, but became over-subscribed.

Unless they have some serious plan for helping move people from hotels into apartments, other than putting up fliers . . . as of December 1, there's going to be a lot of homeless people.

We expect to manage one of the hotels by the first half of the year, while the other two will take place sometime towards the end of 2006.

Just recently we were coming out of Niger and it so happened that there was a great pilgrimage so all the hotels were full. We ended up sleeping on the floor in tin huts with bed bugs and fleas.

My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.

I was devastated. Every 10 minutes, we might go a foot. Not a mile, a foot . And all the shelters were full. All the hotels were booked. We rode around in tears.

Let me reiterate: There is no threat that we received against the hotels at the moment. It's a normal kind of precaution. Whenever we think that there is a need, we will increase the security. We've been doing it before, we will do it again and let us all hope that we're doing it and don't need it done.

Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.

Some of the hotels I've been put up in for work in Scotland have been shockingly bad. They're the type of hotel where the bedroom is like a cell and the Internet doesn't work. I feel quite aggrieved at that because you should at least be treated reasonably well and have basic comfort.

Recently someone said to me, 'We don't have a drug problem in Ward 5,' ... I thought I'd jump out of my skin when I heard that. We can't bury our heads in the sand down here. There have been drug busts at the hotels in Ward 5 just like everywhere else.

People who think prices don't vary much online need to shop for hotels on Search Party. Search Party helps prevent consumers from overpaying for hotels. We understand the cost of a hotel stay is significantly more than just the average nightly rate and we've created Search Party to provide a complete view that helps our users compare the total 'real' cost of the stay to find the best all-around value that saves time and money.

Our new site is a one-stop resource, where users can find information about the competitive wages and generous benefits that hotels provide to employees as well as information on UNITE HERE's real goal - to use upcoming labor negotiations to grow its declining membership. So whether you are a reporter working on a story, a meeting planner organizing a conference, or a guest planning your next visit, we hope you use our new Web site as a resource for information.

People have told us that no true full-service hotels have been built in suburban cities in years, maybe decades,

People are getting kicked out of hotels as we speak. It sends a mixed message. ... We are saying we have destruction and we need aid, and then we're having a party.

Our hope is if we perform well, not only from a monetary standpoint and an attendance standpoint, (but) from an operational standpoint that includes everything from the building to hotels and everything else, we will have a very good shot at (20)10 and '11.

Our hotels continue to experience high demand in Asia Pacificparticularly in China.

My wife and I spent all day yesterday going around to hotels in Round Rock, and we were able to get 13 out of 14 hotels to donate to us.

It is going to be the equivalent of a snow day in terms of the effect on the economy. You are going to have a lot of businesses closed, especially in construction, restaurants, hotels and the service industry.

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.

Rising petrol prices and reduced domestic travel is a concern for regional Australia as few tourists will be passing through country towns, staying in local hotels and contributing to local economies and jobs.

Our brand is unique, offering the style and amenities of the world's leading upscale hotels at mid-scale rates of $115 to $135 per night, ... We've redefined the mid-scale segment of the market with a new generation of hotels featuring loft accommodations that are well-priced, boldly designed, dynamic and fun.

Our Broadway shows are closing, our restaurants are empty, our hotels are vacant, ... We really need help.

It is not surprising that some hotels are taking people on terms that would not be considered ideal N but then they have no choice because they want to remain in business.

It brings tourism to the city. They eat in our restaurants, stay in our hotels and frequent our businesses.

We need some green space, we need some agricultural land. To fill it up with hotels is just insanity.

We have three priorities. One, those people in shelters. Second are those who have been staying in hotels or somewhere else and third are people staying with family or friends.

You know, the hotels are going to go to all this expense of getting a hard wire into each room, and by the time they do that, everyone's going to be using wireless modems.

To be competitive, in the resort and hospitality industry, the spa has become a necessity. It used to be considered a loss leader, but now it's a profit center for hotels .

We anticipate by the end of 2007 we will have taken the number of hotels to at least 20 and we will be well on our way to achieving our medium term objective of 25.

Those days were very tough, ... All my teammates are white and it was a different time. At times when we traveled, I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels or live in a different neighborhood.

We are delighted to have increased our ownership stake in the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus. This transaction is firmly in line with our strategy to acquire and consolidate the minority stakes in hotels that we already own.

We have caseworkers down there, and most people have already received rental assistance. I just gave approval to purchase 10,000 more travel trailers. We're working also with some of the apartment owners to rehab some of the apartments down there. We are going to make sure that people are taken care of. But the judge recognized that, and recognized that the right thing to do is to get them out of hotels and into some decent housing.

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

Most hotels claim to offer secure broadband services, but most do not know enough about security issues to ask their providers the right questions,

That will be super. That will be a big bundle of rooms. Right now, we have only five of 12 hotels open. It's not only the beach that's short of rooms, it's everyone else in town.

We are thrilled to add another group of Disneyland hotels to our portfolio of customers. They have proven to be forward thinking in their approach to marketing their properties around the world and our international experience makes us a great fit.

We are thrilled to forge this new partnership. This new agreement is consistent with our strategy to partner with brands that are leaders in their respective category, and will further our goal to create innovative and powerful platforms that will further engage consumers at both MLB ballparks and Holiday Inn hotels across the country.

We had two hotels then - the James and the Waldorf.

We've got people down here who have worked for other hotels and have been doing a fantastic job for years. Other properties see the Boardwalk and don't want us. We feel like it's a black mark against us.

We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some people that love hotels like Bellagio, and others -- I'm staying in a hotel right now with I think six rooms.

We had guests and hotel owners asking us about offering a gift card. We're excited that now we can respond to that customer demand. Be it graduation or Mother's Day, a birthday or Valentine's Day, Christmas or Hanukkah--or if you're looking for a corporate incentive--we've got the perfect answer: a Choice Hotels gift card.

That was Mr. Holbrook's suggestion. With the lack of hotels in the area, you have to have a place where a featured performer, or artist-in-residence, can stay.

We are talking about maybe as much as 15 per cent increase in arrivals yearly, and the only way we are going to achieve that, is if we aggressively market, not only the destination, but the hotels themselves.

Traditionally when you went to hotels or car rental, you had a reservation but no ticket. I like to have paper tickets to be able to move quickly around airports and change flights, but if you lost it, it was a major pain. You don't have to worry about losing an e-ticket.

We're locating some of the first hotels and businesses along the new Highway 78.

We are confident in running hotels without (brand) flags but we believe as Daytona Beach is evolving, it is important for the public to see the city endorsed by well-known brands.

The path that I've outlined - moving our people from shelters or the homes of in-laws or friends and into hotels and transitional trailer communities here in Louisiana - gives our people hope, ... It gives them a clear path that they can see, a path that will help them get their lives together and get them home to Louisiana.

We'd like everyone who is still here to contact the Chamber (566-2294) to let us know they're here, let us know what their needs are. When everyone was in hotels, it was easy for us to communicate with them because we simply used the hotels as our base of communication.

We have continued our focus on driving the operational performance of our hotels to maximize returns and have delivered first half results in line with our expectations. The group continues to benefit from a diversified global portfolio with our hotels continuing their upward trends, leaving us well positioned for the second half of the year.

We have four bands and each of those have specific requirements for sound and lighting, hotels for the bands, transportation for band members to get their job done.

We have been seeing this movement for some time now - our hotels are full, our restaurants, the track is doing great business and not just from locals. We are seeing a lot of people from outside our area coming here. They are shopping in our stores, buying gas at our stations.

When people think of bed bugs they think of lower class or seediness. But really the opposite is true. They often come from hotels. Nice hotels with a lot of international travelers.

Whenever I was planning a trip or a holiday, flights and hotels were easy. But when it comes to the stuff you want to do when you get there, working that out was really hard.

There have been some complaints against some local hotels for price gouging ... those are being referred to the attorney general.

We would love to have the (transient occupancy tax), but we have not based our financial projection on a significant amount of (such) income, ... We recognize hotels will occur here later in our development cycle.

We have moved more evacuees out of hotels than any other city has ever had in hotels, ... So we encourage those new to it to ask us, not tell us, how to do it.

We're seeing hotels with occupancies that have dropped maybe 20 or 30 percentage points,

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.

What they've done here is incredible. They kept the Frank Lloyd Wright facade. And they kept a great number of guest rooms the same. They redid everything, of course, but when they built hotels in 1956 they built big guest rooms. They kept the concrete block and just put in the new retro stuff. Even when I was here the historical society was constantly visiting, wanting to know what we were doing and wanting to make sure we kept the place intact.

We're going to survey the hotels and motels in town. There's a real nice shelter at Family Faith Church, ... and we're going to solicit the hotels and see what comes out of it. The hotel population right now is still between 500 and 600.

What's noteworthy is the rates did not fall when the demand dropped after 9/11. So hotels are now in a great position to grow the rates moving forward.

We're just working with the hotels with their own individual marketing materials, and we're putting together a campaign to attract those corporate retreats and conventions.