A Bourbon-Soaked Stay in Kentucky
Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Katie K visits Kentucky...in her mind. Enjoy.
Lately I’ve been in a Great-Gatsby-decadence-craving sort of mood (as recessionary escape?). So dress me in my nattiest frock and hand me a bourbon tumbler, because I’m headed to the 1905-built Seelbach Hilton in Louisville, Kentucky, blueblood haunt and one-time writing muse to F. Scott Fitzgerald (penned into immortality as his backdrop for Tom and Daisy Buchanan's nuptials).
Now, the hotel is currently undergoing a $12 million renovation, but for this daydream, we’ll say that’s all taken care of, guaranteeing me a hassle-free stay to live out my repressed Southern Belle fantasies. Book me the Fitzgerald suite (all 985 square feet of it), where I can laze on 18th-century antique furniture by a crackling fireplace.
But let’s be honest: To really channel Fitzgerald’s spirit, you’ll mostly find me drinking my way through the Oakroom, the swank AAA five-diamond resto that serves 40 types of bourbon, houses four wine cellars (that’s 1,400 bottles of vino), and, true to form, concocts savory dishes drenched in Kentucky-distilled bourbon (not that, ahem, there's any other kind).
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