Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Archive for the ‘Travel & Destinations’ Category

There have been many articles in the news and reports on TV about unwelcome guests crawling into hotel beds. I wrote Marriott International to see how they were handling this issue…
Dear Marriott Guest Relations:

When it comes to hotels my wife and I always choose Marriott. We understand that when guests stay in hotels these days, [...]

Posting a recent inquiry to the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, requesting help locating a small town in Idaho called Bumfuck, reminded me of this letter from 1997 to the Waterloo Convention & Visitors Bureau in Iowa…
Dear War Department:
Please send whatever tourist information you have on the Battle of Waterloo. Also, if you have any [...]

There’s a small town people always refer to, which I thought was in Iowa. Surprisingly, after contacting a Chamber of Commerce, AAA and Convention & Visitors Bureau, no one there wrote back. Then, a friend told me the town was in Idaho. I wrote the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce to investigate further…
Dear Director of [...]

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