Luis Ramirez-de-Arellano has a decision to make, and he needs your help. Last fall, after he checked out of the Homewood Suites Philadelphia on City Avenue, he received a surprise $300 charge on his credit card.
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If you stay at enough Homewood Suites properties, you’ll eventually wonder about the duck.
Images of waterfowl are everywhere: on the signage, on guest directories, even the napkins. I haven’t seen a hotel this branded since I stayed at Disneyworld.
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Chain hotels can be depressing places, because when you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ‘em all.
It didn’t help that we’d just watched Up in the Air, the George Clooney movie about a business traveler whose home is a seemingly endless series of hotel rooms, when we checked into the Homewood Suites in Lake Mary, Fla., yesterday.
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It all started a few weeks ago with a call from Hilton. Would I be interested in writing for a Web site run by Homewood Suites, they wondered.
Homewood Suites? Now there’s a name I don’t hear very often — which is actually a good thing.
I looked through my files. No serious complaints about Homewood Suites. It’s squeaky clean, on a par with Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons. Not bad for an upscale, all-suite chain with close to 300 properties.
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