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The Westin Boston Waterfront Tracks Your Flights
Boston has its share of geeky hotels, so it shouldn't surprise us that the Westin Boston Waterfront has installed a cool new gizmo: A flight departures tracking board. Guests at the hotel can check the status of flights out of Logan International Airport, which should come in particularly handy as fall turns to winter and the airport gets socked with bad weather.
The system is called FlyteBoard, and aside from the name it seems like a great innovation. The real-time info comes directly from the airport, meaning it gets some updates that you may not find by simply checking your flight status online.
It's too bad you can't check in for your flight at the hotel, too, but this is a good start. We'd definitely rather work in a comfy hotel lobby than in Logan's terminals.
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Semi-Stream of Consciousness Hotel Review: Westin San Francisco Market Street
You gotta hand it to Westin. Walking into the Westin Market on Third Street in San Francisco, we were ready to shred it. Why? Well first there is that annoying music the "brand" is constantly playing. You know, that supposedly relaxing totally non-offensive song they always play? The tune that is so non-committal we like the Internet remix way better, even though the Westin song remix version sounds like Daughtry could break in with Nickleback lyrics at any time, at least it commits.
But on the other hand, New Yorkers actually seemed to be inoffensive and almost happy with Westin's recent outdoor ad campaign -- does that mean anything?
Point is, we had a lot of preconceived notions before we entered Westin Market, formerly the Argent Hotel, but the room and the hotel turned out to be an above average experience, for the most part -- now we are being non-committal.
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Hotel Video Tours: Scaring Valets At The Westin Waterfront
Recently, we decided to check out what was up at one of Boston's newest "conventioner" hotels, the Westin Boston Waterfront.
Flat panel televisions in every room, a pleasantly lingering new hotel smell, a big, wide open lobby, and that earthy tone decor that gets everyone at Westin so excited these days.
Want the downside? It is in Southie, so South Station is walkable, but kind of far and on-site parking is $36.00 a night--convention suckers. However, if you know the area--D Street cough--you can find a good meal at a reasonably priced restaurant within a couple blocks of the hotel.
Want to know what it is like to walk into this hotel? Well we attempt to show in in the hotel video above. And the answer is no, we did not take that valet's wallet, even though he gives us a look like we are about to pick his pocket.
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What is the Ugliest Building in New York?
[Update: Looks like a G'skip commenter agrees with us. We feel you PAR.]
The good folks over at Gridskipper asked a bunch of building aficionados, "What is the ugliest building in Manhattan".
The panel has some great answers, but we think they missed the ugliest building in New York--The Westin Times Square. Maybe we just have a hotel bias--ya think?
The actual fugliness of this building may get mistaken for virtual ugliness, since it is in Times Square, however, to prove its innate unattractiveness we present the above photo.
[Photo: Wired New York]
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