If they designed a hotel to please me (hotels for infovores)

by Tyler Cowen January 8, 2014 at 2:42 pm in

I am enjoying the “new David Brooks” and his last column prompted me to consider what I actually look for in a hotel. It is pretty quirky and it involves:

1. Very flat pillows so the head can lie almost flat.

2. No fawning from service people.

3. Numerous ready to access electrical outlets, including a laptop outlet right next to the bed so I can lean up against the pillow while blogging.

4. A non-ventilated bathroom which allows you to steam clothes into submission, and clothes hangars which support the same.

6. NBA-relevant channels on the TV and an easy to operate remote control system which does not trap said user in irrelevant menus.

7. Good breakfast choices which do not have an excess of carbohydrates.

I am putting aside location and obvious matters such as “they don’t torture me with unscheduled wake-up calls at 4 a.m.” In any case, it is easy for an expensive hotel — boutique or not — to fail on most of those grounds.