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Spindrift Inn No Longer Spendthrift

Where: 652 Cannery Row [map], Monterey, CA, United States, 93940

Monterey is not exactly known for its budget accommodations, however seedy Cannery Row’s past might have been. So it seems that the Spindrift Inn has decided to conform, renovating its rooms in what it calls “European elegance.”

From what we can tell, that means the Inn’s 45 rooms have gotten hardwood floors, over-stuffed feather bedding, little sitting areas, marble bathrooms with nickel fittings, and traditional furnishings (except for the flatscreen TV’s, or course) decorated in green and red tones.

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Keeping Your Sheets Dirty to Save the Earth

Where: 350 Calle Principal [map], Monterey, CA, United States, 93940

A fight has broken out over hotels saving water by not changing the sheets unless a guest requests new sheets.

Felix Salmon responded to another blogger's gripe that if paying $200 plus a night at the Marriott in Monterey, Calif. then clean sheets should be automatic.

Instead the environmentally-conscious hotel asks that you place a card on the bed when you want new sheets, otherwise they will not be changed.

Felix says:

Obviously, if sheets are dirty, they should be cleaned. If a guest requests new sheets, he should get them. And new guests get new sheets, always. But I see no reason for a hotel guest to expect a level of wastefulness and environmental unfriendliness which would be outright shocking to most Europeans.

Essentially saying, suck it up dude.

The comments below Felix's quote are also chock-ful of people's water-saving opinions and experiences at hotels.

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