Necessary Roughness

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While in Casper I stayed at the Holiday Inn on the River (local web site / Holiday Inn site). They had offered me the Presidential suite the first night, but I wouldn’t have been able to keep it for the whole stay.
I got an average room with a king-size bed. The normal mattress and pillows [...]

Hotel Report: Holiday Inn Denver-Central
Friday, August 10th, 2007

This week I stayed closer to Denver, but the area this hotel is in is an industrial sector without many restaurants. I was also getting back to racking up Holiday Inn points.
The Holiday Inn Denver-Central is essentially two whole buildings of four floors each. There are enough elevators to avoid being inconvenienced.
I got an average-size [...]

Hotel Report: Comfort Inn, Brighton
Sunday, July 29th, 2007

For 19 days I stayed at the Comfort Inn in Brighton, CO. The nearest Holiday Inn was over a half hour away, so I thought I would try something closer. I do have a membership in the Choice Hotels frequent stay program, but one strike against that program is that the points expire. Guess I [...]

Hotel Report: Hotel Marquis, Houston, TX
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

A mechanical failure delayed the arrival of the Continental plane required to take me to Houston and connect to Denver. Continental flew me to Houston and put me up in the Hotel Marquis, which used to be a Quality Inn. There seems to be no corporate web site. The hotel’s address is 6115 Will Clayton [...]

The Holiday Inn Rock Springs has improved significantly from the first time I was there several years ago. I had dreaded going there almost as much as the Econo Lodge, but the latest improvements make it a decent hotel.
The room was a little cramped, with not much room for exercise around the king-size bed. [...]