We decided that it would be a big treat to stay at a hotel right at the airport. I mean right at a terminal. We’ve done this before in Hartford/Springfield and it was cool to check out and then wheel your luggage right over to airline check-in.
The only one like that at Dallas/Ft. Worth is the Grand Hyatt and it is a step up from the one at Bradley International. A BIG step up. The cost is quite a bit more and, well, everything is a bit more. Donna and I are fighting out of our weight class on this one. Like most first class hotels you have to pay for internet, this place has 3 levels of internet, $10, $15 & $25 a night; speedy to blazing fast with a Netflix log-in. There is a refrigerator in the room, but it the hotel’s robotic mini bar, pull something out and it is scanned and added to your bill. This means we can’t put anything of our own in it for fear of being charged when we take it back out.
The 3 restaurants in the hotel were too nice for us to go in dressed in jeans and hiking boots, so we ordered room service. Soup and quesadilla for Donna and a grilled chicken caesar salad for me for the equivalent of a tank of gas for the Purple Whale. Tomorrow for breakfast we will be grabbing something in the terminal…maybe even from a DD.
But, we are in a room that is very spiffy, literally leaps and bounds above the usual HIE places we stay. All the switches are thin membrane and there is a control panel on each nightstand (which is really too plebeian a word for this piece of furniture) to control all the lights, the room temperature and the shades for the floor to ceiling window. The TV is a this year’s model 42″ Samsung. There is a tub or a glass walled shower to choose for your bathing needs. We both choose shower and it has one of those rain type heads that doesn’t have a water saver restrictor plate in it. Niiice. The king bed is awesome, I bet it is worth as much as Donna and I have spent on mattresses in our lifetime. And hey, no cheap shrink-wrapped plastic cups, we have real fine glassware to drink our ice water from. I could get used to this, if I could only afford it all the time.