My Night at a Fancy Boutique Hotel Was Not the Luxury Idyll You Might Have Expected
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, June, 2003
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Friends, through no fault of my own, and without being asked where I wanted to go, I've been placed at some of the poshest hotels in America by the organizers of several recent events to which I've been invited as a speaker. One such occasion is described on page 51 of this issue of Budget Travel. Another overnight, a month ago, was at a so-called deluxe boutique hotel breathlessly touted in all the fashion magazines, featured as one of the world's 500 finest hotels by Travel & Leisure, and placed on the Gold List by Cond, Nast Traveler.
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I occupied a $325-a-night room in which I had the single most uncomfortable hotel stay in recent memory. Because this particular property is the latest costly knockoff of an approach made famous by hotelier Ian Schrager and his trendy French designer, Philippe Starck (this was ...
