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During business trips your hotel becomes your home away from home, and it can play a pretty big role in whether or not your business trip feels successful or not. If you have a bad night’s sleep or something malfunctions it’s can be much harder to concentrate on your actual work. Some things, like an…
How do you choose your hotel for business travel? Reader D asks…. Hi RW! I am traveling for my job several times in the next few months. Whenever I look at all of the hotel options I get overwhelmed. How do you choose which hotel to stay in? Great question! The right hotel can really…
Hey readers! Got a question or something you want to discuss this weekend? Here’s the perfect opportunity! Whether you want to share an interesting travel story, a packing tip, an etiquette tip, or anything else going on in the business travel world, comment here and we’ll have a discussion. Travel tip of the week: I saw…
On a work trip a hotel becomes your home away from home. It also plays a huge role in you having a successful business trip, or not. Abad night’s sleep or something malfunctioning can quickly turn a trip sour. There are some things, like an uncomfortable bed, that there’s really not a work around for,…
There is definitely a learning curve to a lot of aspects of business travel: packing enough but not too much; getting through airport security with a minimum of fuss; maintaining patience with delayed flights and canceled itineraries, just to name a few. Tipping certainly falls under this list. Who do you tip? How much? What…
An article by Nancy Trejos came out in USA Today a couple of weeks ago talking about a new trend in wake up calls. Evidently, hotels have decided that a good way to add a “human touch” to wake up calls is to come to your door, as opposed to having a machine call your…
On two out of my last three trips I have gotten verrrry lucky. First, two weeks ago. I was ready to go, feeling good because I was leaving a bit early for once, and took one last look around my hotel room. Satisfied I had gotten everything, I grabbed my bags and walked down the…
During one of my many trips this summer I did something I’ve never done before: I paid for someone else’s room with my credit card. And it did NOT go well. Normally I book hotels through my company’s corporate travel site. This time, though, the hotel had a really great deal on their website that…
During Blog World in LA, I stayed at the Westin Bonaventure. It was overall a very nice hotel, with a lovely bathroom and very comfy beds, and I’ll do a full review to tell you all about it next week. But they were missing one thing, one important thing: plugs! Business travelers need plugs. Heck,…
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