Sentences with phrase «almost got to the hotel»

Imagine: You are in the Big Apple and you decide to text your friend who is expecting you that you almost got to the hotel.

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It was almost ironic that David and I had discussed our favorite 90's movies (mine is the Secret Garden, his is Far from home), before getting to the hotel and it basically being a recreation of Richy Rich meets Dunston checks in.

Booking your travel in advance is almost always cheaper than trying to get a last minute flight or hotel reservation, but did you know that activities can be as well?

The hotel is home to four top - ranked restaurants, a world - class spa called the Well & Being Spa, and enough golf carts to shuttle you around the grounds without you having to break a sweat (well, almost) getting from one end to the other.

A further consideration that narrowed down the choice of hotel brands was that I wanted to give us the best chance of getting a good room upgrade — that would almost certainly mean using either Marriott or Starwood properties as I have top - tier status in both of their loyalty programs.

It's still nice to see that you can almost get.6 cents per point on average when redeeming Hilton Honors points for a Conrad Hotel, though.

On top of that it occurred to me that Joanna and I would almost certainly be out of the hotel for most of our stay and we would be eating outside of the hotel too... so would we even get a chance to experience this amazing service?

Almost all the hotels offer tours or boat transfers to get there.

This hotel does have a dedicated lot a few blocks away, but it was almost full and we had to wait for someone to leave to get a spot.

Whether you want to fly business class to Asia, stay in a 5 star hotel in Paris or simply visit the grandparents in Cali, I will create you a custom action plan to get you there for almost nothing.

It ’ s going to almost always be better to get 2 - 3x points with another card and accrue points / nights through the Hotel program.

We decided to get the Citi Hilton Reserve card because instead of coming with a sign - up bonus in the form of points, it earned us 2 free nights at almost any hotel in the Hilton collection, regardless of category.

You will almost always get more value by transferring points to airline and / or hotel loyalty programs.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.