Splurge!
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, June, 2006 by Adrien Glover, Laurie Kuntz, David LaHuta, and Erik Torkells
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Break Off a Piece of a Grand Hotel
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Anyone who's ever walked by Claridge's, Raffles, or the Waldorf-Astoria has been moved by everything those names imply. But you don't have to stay there to take a bit of the glamour home with you. Every famous hotel sells stuff with its name on it. This is money terribly spent (which might just be the definition of a splurge). After all, your dog gives neither a kibble nor a bit if he's eating from a Beverly Hills Hotel bowl. And yet there's something so perfectly insouciant about that dog bowl, isn't there? Leaving it out in the backyard like "The Pink Palace" means nothing to you. You're not claiming familiarity with the hotel so much as letting a familiarity be inferred; it's a lie that's littler than little and paler than white. The charitable interpretation is that you're paying homage-to a time ...
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