Travel Tidbits For Food Lovers, Pet Lovers and Sheet Lovers

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

23 Nov 2006 01:34 PM

FREE FOOD FOR NEAT FREAKS

Apparently no good deed will go un-rewarded at one of the nation's busiest airports. According to airport management, if you're spotted picking up and throwing away trash at Cleveland's Hopkins International Airport, you could win a discount on your next purchase at an airport establishment. The airport's new incentive program begins early next year to reward fliers and visitors who help keep the airport tidy. A local newspaper is reporting that airport employees will be handing out coupons for discounts on food and other items to anyone spotted pitching in. The program is part of an airport marketing campaign, titled "Going Places," in which airport officials are trying to tout the travel hub as "as a convenient, vibrant, growing airport."

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LUXURY PET HOTELS

Sure, we've all heard about dog-friendly hotels, which provide special amenities to our four-legged friends. But now some companies are taking the idea of a homey home away from home for Fido to a whole new level. Introducing new luxury pet hotels where dogs and cats can stay in human-style surroundings while their owners are away.

At San Francisco's new Wag Hotel (which is set to open in a couple of weeks) chain-link kennels and concrete dog runs have been replaced with doggie suites with flat-screen TVs that feature animated movies. Your pooch can swim in a pool and even get a massage. Of course, all this luxury doesn't come cheap. We're talking $100 a day for a suite with daycare (including supervised play groups). Rates for smaller quarters without daycare start at about $20.

In addition to the San Francisco location there is a Wag Hotel currently open in Sacramento and another due to open next year in Sunnyvale, California.

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SHEET SNOBS

I don't know what kind of traveler you are, but I for one am not too picky when it comes to hotel sheets. As long as the sheets I sleep on are clean (and I can't see the mattress through them) then I am okay. But, it seems I am in the minority. According to a new survey, travelers do care about their sheets... and hotel chains' are listening by fitting their beds with sheets with higher thread counts.

But that's not all; in addition to upgrading linens hotels are selling sheets online. Upscale Rosewood Hotels & Resorts just opened an online boutique, where you can buy several types of sheets, including 740-thread-count sets starting at $200. Chains including Westin, Holiday Inn Express, Kimpton and Ritz-Carlton also sell linens online.

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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